The Day the Crayons Quit

The Day the Crayons Quit
By:"Drew Daywalt"
Published on 2013-06-27 by Penguin

The #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon! Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best? Kids will be imagining their own humorous conversations with crayons and coloring a blue streak after sharing laughs with Drew Daywalt and New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers. This story is perfect as a back-to-school gift, for all budding artists, for fans of humorous books such as Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciezka and Lane Smith, and for fans of Oliver Jeffers' Stuck, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, Lost and Found, and This Moose Belongs to Me. Praise for The Day the Crayons Quit Amazon’s 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2013 Goodreads’ 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year Winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award * “Hilarious . . . Move over, Click, Clack, Moo; we’ve got a new contender for the most successful picture-book strike.” –BCCB, starred review “Jeffers . . . elevates crayon drawing to remarkable heights.” –Booklist “Fresh and funny.” –The Wall Street Journal \

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword picture books.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
By:"Peter Boxall"
Published on 2015-04-01 by Pier 9

Delve into the pages of this sumptuously illustrated book and take a tour of the greatest novels that the world has to offer. Read and enjoy.

This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword books for teens.

Children's Literature

Children's Literature
By:"Barbara Stoodt"
Published on 1996 by Macmillan Education AU

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword children books.

Speaking Out

Speaking Out
By:"Jack Zipes"
Published on 2004 by Psychology Press

In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force within storytelling and creative drama during the K-12 years. For the past four years, Jack Zipes has worked with the Neighborhood Bridges Program of the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, taking his storytelling techniques into inner-city schools. Speaking Out is in part a record of the transformations storytelling can work on the minds and lives of young people. But it is also a vivid and exhilarating demonstration of a different kind of education - one built from deep inside each child. Speaking Out is a book for storytellers, educators, parents, and anyone who cares about helping kids find within themselves the keys to imagination.

This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword drama for children.

The Adventures of Augie March

The Adventures of Augie March
By:"Saul Bellow"
Published on 2012-07-27 by Penguin UK

Augie March is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A 'born recruit', he latches on to a wild succession of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as too limiting. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, is his independence seriously threatened. He goes on to recruit himself to even more outlandish projects, but always ducks out in time to continue improvising his unconventional career. Augie March is the star performer ina richly observed human variety show, a modern-day Columbus in search of reality and fulfilment.

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.

Alternative Comics

Alternative Comics
By:"Charles Hatfield"
Published on 2005 by Univ. Press of Mississippi

In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Franoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally realistic, and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground, nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books. In Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the graphic novel. He argues that these are fundamentally a literary form and offers an extensive critical study of them both as a literary genre and as a cultural phenomenon. Combining sharp-eyed readings and illustrations from particular texts with a larger understanding of the comics as an art form, this book discusses the development of specific genres, such as autobiography and history. Alternative Comics analyzes such seminal works as Spiegelman's Maus, Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, and Justin Green's Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary.

This Book was ranked 33 by Google Books for keyword comics books.

Voracious Children

Voracious Children
By:"Carolyn Daniel"
Published on 2006 by Taylor & Francis

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword children literature.

Children's Literature

Children's Literature
By:"M. O. Grenby"
Published on 2008 by Edinburgh University Press

Introducing students to the unique challenges of working with children's literature, this title outlines what is different about writing for children followed by a succinct account of the often neglected history of children's literature.

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword children literature.

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
By:"Bernice E. Cullinan","Diane Goetz Person"
Published on 2005 by A&C Black

Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.

This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword children literature.

The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury

The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury
By:"Janet Schulman"
Published on 1998 by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

A collection of picture book stories by such authors as Ludwig Bemelmans, Ezra Jack Keats, and Maurice Sendak.

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword picture books.