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My First Book of Fancy Letters
by Jessica HischeFrom the New York Times best-selling creator of Tomorrow I'll Be Brave comes a delightful spin on the traditional alphabet book, featuring creatively hand-lettered words from A to Z and an affirming message for young readers.Did you know letters can be ATHLETIC, BUBBLY, or even CREEPY?Using unique lettering styles to showcase a fun word for each letter of the alphabet, this inventive picture book by creator Jessica Hische highlights how letters can come in all shapes and sizes—and are awesome in their own ways.Not only conveying the value of differences to little ones but also introducing young readers to some &“bigger&” words through typography, this book makes a great gift for baby showers, big-kid birthdays, your favorite font-obsessed friend, and more.
My First Book of Korean Words: An ABC Rhyming Book
by Aya Padron Kyubyong Park Henry J. AmenMy First Book of Korean Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Korean language and culture through everyday words.The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Korean language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Korean Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Korean speech; to introduce core elements of Korean culture; to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds; and to show how, through cultural importation, a single word can be shared between languages.Both teachers and parents will welcome the book's cultural and linguistic notes, and appreciate how the book is organized in a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Hangeul, as well as in its Romanized form.With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the nearly 80 million people worldwide that speak Korean!
My First Book of Sign
by Pamela J. BakerMy First Book of Sign, a full-color alphabet book, gives the signs for 150 of the words most frequently used by young children. The vocabulary comes from recognized word list sources such as the Dale List of 769 Easy Words. The proportion of word category choices (nouns, modifiers, and verbs) is based on early language acquisition research. Readers do not have to know American Sign Language to enjoy My First Book of Sign; the book provides explanations of how to form each sign. This is a very special alphabet book appropriate for all children who are just beginning to read.
My First Book of Tagalog Words
by Jaime Laurel Liana RomuloIn the age-old tradition of teaching language through rhyme and verse, My First Book of Tagalog Words introduces Philippine language and culture to preschool children in a playful and non-intimidating way. The ABC structure provides a familiar framework that encourages fun and easy learning. Its bold and bright illustrations aim to make children laugh and enjoy the learning process.
My First Book of Tagalog Words
by Liana Romulo Jaime LaurelIn the age-old tradition of teaching language through rhyme and verse, My First Book of Tagalog Words introduces Philippine language and culture to preschool children in a playful and non-intimidating way. The ABC structure provides a familiar framework that encourages fun and easy learning. Its bold and bright illustrations aim to make children laugh and enjoy the learning process.
My First Busy Home: Let's Look and Learn! (My First Board Books)
by DKPacked with colorful pictures and activities, your toddler will love discovering familiar images of objects from around the home with this eBook! Perfect for reading together and encouraging early word recognition. Bright, busy pages transport your toddler to different rooms around the home and places outdoors, featuring colorful playhouses, housework activities, numbers, and colors for them to engage with. Fun-filled questions on every page will help develop early speaking and listening skills. For Kobo Vox Only.
My First Colors (My First Board Books)
by DKHelp your toddler learn all about colors in My First Colors. With colorful, bright photographs alongside clear word-labels your little one will begin to recognize red from yellow and even multi-colored objects too. Each page introduces one color using objects or animals to fully engage your toddler and keep early learning simple. Perfect for encouraging children to build vocabulary and language skills My First Colors helps toddlers grasp early concepts. Read it together and help them turn the pages and learn all about color.
My First Dictionary: Corrupting Young Minds One Word at a Time
by Ross HorsleyIn this irreverently unsuitable primer, you'll learn ABCs like Abandonment, Boredom, Cutting and more!Hello, boys and girls, and welcome to the wonderful world of words! You’ve learned the basics—from apple to zebra—but what about all those mysterious new terms you’ve heard the grown-ups whispering when you were supposed to be tucked up snugly in bed?What makes Mommy so bitter? Where does Daddy conceal the door to his secret S&M dungeon? And why is everyone laughing about Grandma’s latest delusion?My First Dictionary answers these questions, and includes many other useful definitions, such as:A burden is a source of worry or stress. Old people are usually burdens.Father is nostalgic. He is remembering the happier times before you were born.A puppy is a young dog. Connie gets a puppy every time she agrees not to tell. Daddy calls them hush puppies.A zigzag is a jagged line. We can tell that Mother has been drinking when she drives in a zigzag pattern.Carry a copy of My First Dictionary in your schoolbag and you’ll never be at a loss for words again!
My First Mandarin Words with Gordon & Li Li
by Michele Wong McSweenLearn English and Mandarin words with panda cousins Gordon and Li Li in this charming and colorful bilingual first words book!Gordon and Li Li are cousins. Li Li is from Beijing, China, and speaks Mandarin. Gordon lives in Brooklyn, New York, and speaks English. When Li Li visits Gordon for the first time, the cousins must learn to communicate using simple, everyday words.Children and caregivers can read along with Gordon and Li Li as they learn basic English and Mandarin words and their correct pronunciation. Each spread of this sturdy book spotlights a different theme, including greetings, colors, numbers, and animals! And every word features the English and pinyin spelling along with the Chinese character and the phonetic Mandarin pronunciation to help readers practice.This is an adorable and informative must-have first words book for any family who wants to get little ones excited to open the door to learning a second language -- and future language success!
My First Spanish Word Board Book - Mi Primer Libro de Palabras en Español
by Angela WilkesDe la portada trasera (from the back cover): A first word-and-picture book that helps children develop essential vocabulary. Un primer libro de palabras y dibujos que le ayudará a sus hijos a desarrollar un vocabulario básico.
My First Trucks (My First Board Books)
by DKRelaunch of DK's My First seriesEncourage talking and build vocabulary with this fun first picture book. My First Trucks features 17 spreads of trucks and vehicles. Clear word labels accompany each image. Spreads include: Trucks, Diggers, Gas tanker, Car transporter, Emergency, Road trains, Snow plow, Logging truck, Find the load, Monster truck, Excavator, Bulldozer, Tractor, Road roller, Colorful trucks, and Truck shapes.
My First Word (My First Board Books)
by DKThe best-selling first word and picture book that helps children develop essential vocabulary.DK proudly reintroduces 10 favorite board books from the beloved My First series, all with beautifully redesigned covers for a fresh new look. Filled with photographs and large, easy-to-read text, My First Board Books provide children with an excellent platform for early learning. A variety of first concepts, such numbers, letters, and more are introduced in a fun, informative way to help children build the vocabulary and basic language skills that formthe foundation of learning.
My First Words: 1,000 Words, Pictures, And Definitions (My First Board Books)
by DKRelaunch of DK's My First seriesEncourage talking and build vocabulary with this fun first word-and-picture book! My First Words features 17 spreads of objects illustrating first familiar words. Clear word labels accompany each image. Spreads include: All about me/My Body, Around the house, Food, In the bathroom, In the kitchen, In the garden, In the garage, Animals, Shopping, Things that go, On the farm, Seashore, Toys, Shapes, Feelings.
My First Words: Let's Get Talking! (My First Tabbed Board Book)
by DKWith lots of fun-filled images, simple questions, and objects to name, your toddler will love learning first words using this colorful eBook. Identify the goldfish, teddy bear, and car, and encourage your toddler to choose their favorite pet! Fun-filled questions will help develop early speaking and listening skills. Perfect for reading together and encouraging early word recognition. For Kobo Vox Only.
My Foodie ABC: A Little Gourmet's Guide
by PuckA delightful educational tool that stresses the importance of having a healthy relationship with food, this board book teaches the letters of the alphabet to tots and other gastronomes in training. Stylish and dazzling illustrations that highlight terms such as Kobe beef, pomegranate, ice cream, and farmer's market pair with fun foodie facts to make learning the alphabet easy and enriching. A complete introduction to the alphabet and gastronomical terms, this unique book also includes a pronunciation guide, making it an ideal companion for food aficionados.
My Functional Skills: Revision and Exam Practice for English Level 1
by Victoria EckertTarget success in Level 1 English with this brand-new functional skills revision and exam practice guide.Suitable for all functional skills courses, this guide explains the key content you need to understand the topics on your course, so you can revise effectively and practise for your exams with the types of questions you will be asked.Now I get it! Grasp even the most difficult topics with clear and simple explanations and questions to test your understandingHow do I answer this? Learn how to unpick the types of exam questions you will face with clear guidance on how to structure your answersSo what do I need to do to pass? Improve your exam skills with hundreds of practice questions for you to try, as well as worked examples and model answers to check you are on the path to successWith a revision planner, exam countdown timetable to help you pace your revision and glossary of all key terms, My Functional Skills has all you need to approach your exams with real confidence.
My Functional Skills: Revision and Exam Practice for English Level 1
by Victoria EckertTarget success in Level 1 English with this brand-new functional skills revision and exam practice guide.Suitable for all functional skills courses, this guide explains the key content you need to understand the topics on your course, so you can revise effectively and practise for your exams with the types of questions you will be asked.Now I get it! Grasp even the most difficult topics with clear and simple explanations and questions to test your understandingHow do I answer this? Learn how to unpick the types of exam questions you will face with clear guidance on how to structure your answersSo what do I need to do to pass? Improve your exam skills with hundreds of practice questions for you to try, as well as worked examples and model answers to check you are on the path to successWith a revision planner, exam countdown timetable to help you pace your revision and glossary of all key terms, My Functional Skills has all you need to approach your exams with real confidence.
My Functional Skills: Revision and Exam Practice for English Level 2
by Victoria EckertTarget success in Level 2 English with this brand-new functional skills revision and exam practice guide.Suitable for all functional skills courses, this guide explains the key content you need to understand the topics on your course, so you can revise effectively and practise for your exams with the types of questions you will be asked.Now I get it! Grasp even the most difficult topics with clear and simple explanations and questions to test your understandingHow do I answer this? Learn how to unpick the types of exam questions you will face with clear guidance on how to structure your answersSo what do I need to do to pass? Improve your exam skills with hundreds of practice questions for you to try, as well as worked examples and model answers to check you are on the path to successWith a revision planner, exam countdown timetable to help you pace your revision and glossary of all key terms, My Functional Skills has all you need to approach your exams with real confidence.
My Functional Skills: Revision and Exam Practice for English Level 2
by Victoria EckertTarget success in Level 2 English with this brand-new functional skills revision and exam practice guide.Suitable for all functional skills courses, this guide explains the key content you need to understand the topics on your course, so you can revise effectively and practise for your exams with the types of questions you will be asked.Now I get it! Grasp even the most difficult topics with clear and simple explanations and questions to test your understandingHow do I answer this? Learn how to unpick the types of exam questions you will face with clear guidance on how to structure your answersSo what do I need to do to pass? Improve your exam skills with hundreds of practice questions for you to try, as well as worked examples and model answers to check you are on the path to successWith a revision planner, exam countdown timetable to help you pace your revision and glossary of all key terms, My Functional Skills has all you need to approach your exams with real confidence.
My Garden
by Jamaica KincaidIn an intimate, playful, penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the gardeners who tend them, Kincaid examines the idea of the garden on Antigua and considers the implications of the English formal garden in colonized countries.
My Generation
by Tom Brokaw William Styron James L.W. WestA vital, illuminating collection of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's elegant, passionately engaged nonfiction My Generation is the definitive gathering of William Styron's nonfiction, exposing the core of this greatly gifted, highly convivial, and profoundly serious artist from his literary emergence in the 1950s to his death in 2006. Here are fifty years of Styron's essays, memoirs, reviews, op-eds, articles, eulogies, and speeches, reflecting the same brilliant style and informed thinking that he brought to his towering fiction and to a deeply committed public life. Including many newly collected and never-before-published items, this compendium ranges from the original mission statement of The Paris Review, which Styron helped found in 1953, to a 2001 tribute to his friend Philip Roth--creating an essential overview of arts and letters during the post-World War II years. In these pages, Styron writes vividly of childhood days in Tidewater Virginia spent going to movies, not reading books. ("It does not mean the death of literacy or creativity if one is drenched in popular culture at an early age.") He recalls being among the group of soldiers who would have been sent to invade Japan and were saved by Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb, which Styron feels was the right choice, "even though its absolute rightness can never be proved." And he writes as few others have about midlife battles with clinical depression, "a pain that is all but indescribable, and therefore to everyone but the sufferer almost meaningless." Here, too, are Styron's personal encounters with world leaders, fellow authors, and friends, each of whom comes memorably to life. Styron recalls sharing contraband Cuban cigars with JFK ("a naughty memento, a conversation piece with a touch of scandal"), getting lost in the snow with Robert Penn Warren, and party-hopping with the young James Jones (an experience he likens to "keeping company with a Roman emperor"). The beginnings of his masterpieces The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice are chronicled here, along with the controversy that greeted the former upon its 1967 publication. Throughout, Styron celebrates the men and women of his generation, whose lives were forged in the crucible of World War II. Whether he's recounting a walk with his dog, musing on the Modern Library's list of the hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century, or contemplating America's fraught racial legacy from his point of view as the grandson of a woman who owned slaves, William Styron writes always in urgent, finely calibrated prose. These fascinating pieces bring readers closer to this great writer and the world he observed, interacted with, and changed.
My Grammar and I Or Should That Be Me?
by J. A. WinesSharpen your language skills and navigate your way around grammatical minefields with this entertaining and practical guide. For anyone who has ever been stumped by dangling modifiers and split infinitives, or for those who have no idea what these things even are, My Grammar and I...Or Should That Be Me? offers practical and humorous guidance on how to avoid falling into language pitfalls. Here are all the right tools to help you gain confidence as a speaker and writer, highlighting the most common language errors, such as wrongly used prepositions, misplaced modifiers, and confusing participles. This refreshing refresher course covers: ? Spelling and Confusables-There are times when the spelling rule "i before e except after c" does not apply ? Parts of Speech-Is it "its" or "it's"? "Whose" or "who's"? ? Sentence Structure-Let us ponder the subject, or object, of "I" and "me" ? Punctuation-So where does a comma go? ? Elements of Style-There is more to grammar than knowing the difference between a subordinate object and a nonrestrictive apostrophe And, for those grammar know-it-alls, there are entertaining "Smart Aleck" trivia, anecdotes, witticisms, and more. Clever and informative, this is the ideal gift for all English-language sticklers.
My Grandma Likes to Say
by Denise Brennan-NelsonMy Grandma Likes to Say What visual comes to your mind when you hear, "Fly by the seat of your pants," or "A rolling stone gathers no moss," or "Throw caution to the wind"? My Grandma Likes to Say is a child's hilarious visual interpretation of the sayings that grandmas, nanas, gigias, omas, grannies, grandmamas, grand-mères, abuelas, or ya-yas sprinkle throughout their language. Idioms, maxims, proverbs, and clichés have been around for many years. While they can be confusing, especially to young ears, once understood they can be an excellent example of the power of language. Following the runaway success of My Momma Likes to Say and My Teacher Likes to Say, award-winning author Denise Brennan-Nelson is once again paired with award-winning illustrator Jane Monroe Donovan to bring you the fun and downright silliness of these expressions from a child's point of view.
My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry
by Craig RaineFrom critic and poet Craig Raine comes a fresh, bold examination of the meaning of poetry and some of the great poetical works of our time"By poetry we—we the masses—mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word "poetry" is up there with "soul". And I am against it.'Craig Raine's new work of criticism deploys its considerable learning, its intelligent expertise, lightly, wittily, memorably. It is an exercise in demystification and clarity. If you want to know how poetry works on the page, here are sure-footed accounts of particular poems. There is something Johnsonian in Craig Raine's common sense—an elegant wrecking ball used with precision and delicacy to pick off the pretentious, the platitudinous, the over-promoted. Here, poetry is well read, attentively read, by a practitioner whose range runs from Bion to John Lennon, from Bishop to Balanchine.
My Havana
by Xenia Reloba de la Cruz Maria Carida Cumana Karen DubinskyFor more than thirty years, musician Carlos Varela has been a guide to the heart, soul, and sound of Havana. One of the best known singer-songwriters to emerge out of the Cuban nueva trova movement, Varela has toured in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. In North America, Varela is "Cuba's Bob Dylan." In Cuba, he is the voice of the generation that came of age in the 1990s and for whom his songs are their generation's anthems. My Havana is a lyrical exploration of Varela's life and work, and of the vibrant musical, literary, and cinematic culture of his generation.Popular both among Cubans on the island and in the diaspora, Varela is legendary for the intense political honesty of lyrics. He is one of the most important musicians in the Cuban scene today. In My Havana, writers living in Canada, Cuba, the United States, and Great Britain use Varela's life and music to explore the history and cultural politics of contemporary Cuba. The book also contains an extended interview with Varela and English translations of the lyrics to all his recorded songs, most of which are appearing in print for the very first time.