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Around The World Through Holidays: Cross Curricular Readers Theatre includes scripts for twelve plays adaptable for any of the reading or performance methods of Readers Theatre presentation. Each play introduces students to a specific world culture by looking at holidays celebrated in that culture. The structure of the book introduces holidays chronologically throughout a calendar year—one play per month. The focus is on literacy and social studies, so the book is not tied to the traditional nine-month school calendar.

A huge earthquake rocked the West Coast on April 18, 1906. Worst hit was the city of San Francisco, where buildings collapsed and fires raged for days. Thousands of people died, and many more were left homeless. The disaster was just one of a long series of earthquakes triggered by the San Andreas Fault. It taught scientists valuable lessons about preparing for earthquakes.

To celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the Caldecott Medal and another decade of award-winning picture books, noted children’s book historian Leonard S. Marcus has updated this absorbing and informative picture of the world’s most prestigious illustration award and seven of its acclaimed winners: Robert McCloskey, Marcia Brown, Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Chris Van Allsburg, David Wiesner, and now Mordicai Gerstein.

This is a teacher's handbook which corresponds to the music cd Songs of Peace and Joy CD. Book includes sheet music for the following songs:

• Light the Candles All Around the World
• A Time for Peace
• Today is the Day!
• Friends are Like Diamonds
• This Little Light of Mine
• Sing of Joy!
• Where is the Peace?
• Dona Nobis Pacem
• An Old Irish Blessing
  

This is a teacher's handbook which corresponds to the music cd Sing for the Red, White and Blue CD. Book includes sheet music for the following songs:

• There are Many Flags in Many Lands
• America the Beautiful
• Sing of America
• The Stars and Stripes Forever
• America
• You're a Grand Old Flag
• America, My Home
• Yankee Doodle's Pony
  

This is a teacher's handbook which corresponds to the music cd The Santa Claus Rock! CD. Book includes sheet music for The Santa Claus Rock! song.

This is a teacher's handbook which corresponds to the music cd Christmas Sing-Along CD. Book includes sheet music for Christmas Sing-Along song.

When I was ten, one summer night,
The baby stars that leapt
Among the trees like dimes of light,
I cupped, and capped, and kept.

It takes only a few words, if they're the right words, to create a strong image. Whether listened to in the comfort of a cozy lap or read independently, the thirty-six very short poems in this collection show readers young and old that a few perfect words and pictures can make the world glow.

In 1770, the slave Esperança Garcia bravely penned a letter to the governor of Piauí state, in Brazil, describing how she and her children were being mistreated and requesting permission to return to the farm where the rest of her family was living. Before she wrote her letter, Esperança Garcia lived on a cotton farm run by Jesuit priests, where she learned to read and write — a rare opportunity for a woman, especially a slave.