A picture book to help young readers become familiar with Italian educator Maria Montessori. Montessori's life, work and teaching method are explained with a simple story and with colorful illustrations. A short introduction at the beginning of the book provides essential information for adults, teachers and their classrooms so they can familiarize themselves with Maria Montessori and her role in childhood education. Included at the end of the book are: - a section with additional interesting facts for curious minds and - two ready-to-use activities, to help readers review the book's content. Language: English Large print Ages: 5+
A bilingual book in German and English to introduce children to the Italian educator Maria Montessori, her work, and her teaching method. With a simple story, colorful illustrations, a short introduction, and additional interesting facts for curious minds, children will discover who was Maria Montessori and why her name is so well known.Two ready-to-use activities are included at the end of the book to help readers review the book's content. The text is in two languages on every page, so that the use of a dictionary is not necessary. Suitable for children 5 years old and up, and for beginner German language learners of all ages. Large print.---Ein zweisprachiges Buch auf Deutsch und Englisch, das Kindern die italienische P dagogin Maria Montessori, ihre Arbeit und ihre Lehrmethode n her bringt. Mit einer einfachen Geschichte, bunten Illustrationen, einer kurzen Einf hrung und zus tzlichen interessanten Fakten f r neugierige K pfe werden Kinder entdecken, wer Maria Montessori war und warum ihr Name so bekannt ist.Am Ende des Buches befinden sich zwei fertige Aktivit ten, die den Lesern helfen, den Inhalt des Buches zu wiederholen. Der Text ist auf jeder Seite zweisprachig, so dass die Verwendung eines W rterbuchs nicht notwendig ist. Das Buch eignet sich f r Kinder ab 5 Jahren und f r Deutschlernende aller Altersstufen. Gro e Schrift.
“I highly recommend this extraordinary trip to the kingdom of the monarch.”—Dr. Lincoln Brower, Sweet Briar College, the world’s leading expert on the Monarch butterfly Each year, in the Mexican town of Contepec, migrating Monarch butterflies spend the winter in the temperate forests of Mexico. This children’s book is an adventure story about two courageous cousins Eréndira and Corina. With the help of their community as well as Maria the Monarch butterfly, who speaks to them in their dreams, they save the lives of millions of Monarch butterflies threatened by illegal logging and traffickers of wild animals. Together they help preserve the natural and cultural wealth of their homeland. In an afterword “The Monarch: A Tireless Traveler” Betty Ferber describes the life and evolution of the Monarch butterfly, its migration from North to South America, and the establishment of the sanctuaries in Mexico and the laws that protect them. Homero Aridjis, one of Latin America’s greatest living writers and environmental activists, is the author forty-eight books of poetry and prose including Eyes to See Otherwise (New Directions), Solar Poems (City Lights), and 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (University of New Mexico Press). Juan Carlos Palomino won first place in the IV Catalog Iberoamerican Illustration in 2013 for his illustrations for Samir and Yonatan, published by Ediciones Castillo. Eva Aridjis is a filmmaker whose prize-winning films include Taxidermy: The Art of Imitating Life and Billy Twist, which played at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003, she filmed Niños de la Calle (Children of the Street), bringing attention to Mexico City’s poverty epidemic. Betty Ferber is the International Coordinator of the environmentalist collective Grupo de los Cien (Group of 100) and translator of Homero Aridjis’s books.
Each year, in the Mexican town of Contepec, migrating Monarch butterflies spend the winter in the temperate forests of Mexico. This children’s book (ages 8-12) is an adventure story about two courageous cousins Eréndira and Corina. With the help of their community as well as Maria the Monarch butterfly, who speaks to them in their dreams, they save the lives of millions of Monarch butterflies threatened by illegal logging and traffickers of wild animals. Together they help preserve the natural and cultural wealth of their homeland.In an afterword ?The Monarch: A Tireless Traveler” Betty Ferber describes the life and evolution of the Monarch butterfly, its migration from North to South America, and the establishment of the sanctuaries in Mexico and the laws that protect them.
In an era of climate change, extractivist economies, and forced mobility, who and what belongs? Throughout her prolific career, Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves has focused precisely on this question. Perhaps her most iconic, generative, and expansive work is Seeds of Change, a twenty-year investigation into the hidden history of ballast flora—displaced plant seeds found in the soil used to balance shipping vessels during the colonial period.The project examines the influx and significance of imported plants, materializing at port cities across several continents: Marseille, Reposaari, Liverpool, Exeter and Topsham, Dunkerque, Bristol, Antwerp, and most recently New York, where it was awarded the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. In each city, Seeds of Change has revealed the entangled relationship between “alien” plant species and the colonial maritime trade of goods and enslaved peoples, contrasting their seemingly innocuous beauty with the violent history associated with their arrival. By focusing on ballast flora, Alves invites us to de-border postcolonial historical narratives and consider a “borderless history.”The first monograph of Alves’s historic project, Seeds of Change is edited by Carin Kuoni and Wilma Lukatsch and features essays by the artist as well as Katayoun Chamany, Seth Denizen, Jean Fisher, Yrjö Haila, Richard William Hill, Heli M. Jutila, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Lara Khaldi, Tomaž Mastnak, Marisa Prefer, and Radhika Subramaniam.
A book forty-one years in the making, written between 1975 and 2016, Dave Oliphant's Mar a's Book presents what Douglas Flaherty has called "a delicately passionate record of an internationally conspired love affair. Oliphant's poems to his wife are valentines for the ages." With its publication in 2016, Mar a's Book marks the golden anniversary of Dave and Mar a's marriage.
In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis-years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, Merian and her daughter ventured thousands of miles from their home in the Netherlands to the rainforests of South America seeking new and amazing insects to observe and illustrate. Years after her death, Merian's accurate and beautiful illustrations were used by scientists, including Carl Linnaeus, to classify species, and today her prints and paintings are prized by museums around the world. More than a dozen species of plants and animals are named after Merian. The first Merian biography written for ages 10 and up, this book will enchant budding scientists and artists alike. Readers will be inspired by Merian's talent, curiosity, and grit and will be swept up in the story of her life, which was adventurous even by today's standards. With its lively text, quotations from Merian's own study book, and fascinating sidebars on history, art, and science, this volume is an ideal STEAM title for readers of all ages and interests.
While the adage may go, “Behind every great man is a great woman,” the story of Maria Longworth Storer necessitates a new adage—at the front of every great city is a great woman. After being shunted into the biographies and history books of other people, Longworth Storer is now finally given center stage on the one hundred and seventieth anniversary of her birth.Maria Longworth Storer: From Music and Art to Popes and Presidents is the most comprehensive biography of this one of a kind Cincinnatian. Known as the founder of the first female-run manufacturing company in the United States, Rookwood Pottery, Longworth Storer was passionate about women’s rights, her city, and issues of poverty and the arts. She owned Rookwood pottery for nine years, and then transferred ownership after earning recognition at the Exhibition of American Art Industry in Philadelphia and receiving a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Aside from her success with Rookwood, Longworth Storer was central to making the Queen City the major cultural landmark it is today. Although the rest of her life was no less remarkable as the wife of notorious diplomat Bellamy Storer, later embroiled in the famous Roosevelt-Storer scandal, little has been written about her contributions and exploits in diplomatic relations and her powerful influence on turn-of-the-twentieth-century political leaders. Featuring new archival research, and never before seen photos of the Storer family, authors Constance J. Moore and Nancy M. Broermann have compiled a portrait of Maria Longworth Storer that is rich in detail, fitting to both the wide, often eclectic, breadth of Longworth Storer’s projects, and to the depth of her impact on leaders from Washington D.C. to Europe. Moving through major moments in both American and Cincinnati history, and intersecting with significant historical figures including Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, Moore and Broermann expose the broader historical narrative of Longworth Storer’s life without letting her unique spirit and individual accomplishments become overshadowed by them. Through thoughtful, balanced narrative, readers get to know a remarkable woman whose fascinating and dramatic life as a political figure, women’s rights advocate, and patron of the arts has had a long lasting legacy on the Queen City and the Shaping of our nation’s diplomatic policies.
From the artist of the bestselling Faithless series...comes Eros/Psyche. La Rosa's female boarding school is paradise for young girls...but only if you follow the rules. Because, if you disobey them, you can end up expelled, or even worse, dead. Sara and Silje are two students learning the rules of the school, which includes classes by day...and the casting of curses and spells by night. A love develops between the two, which is tender, but threatens to break under the weight of the dark secret society within La Rosa. Acclaimed creator Maria Llovet (Faithless, Heartbeat, Loud) brings you a surreal, bewitching tale of love, magic, and tragedy in Eros/Psyche.
Beryl's life in the desert, living with her aunt and her cat, is relatively simple...until the day she finds and enters the Dollhouse.Stuck inside an ever-changing mystery house that hunts children and turns them into dolls, Beryl goes on a psychedelic journey where she must face the notion of her own limitations and move past them...before she becomes the building's newest prey.PORCELAIN is a labyrinth of a psychologically thrilling experience told in a way that only acclaimed creator Maria Llovet (Faithless, Heartbeat, Loud, Eros/Psyche) can tell it.
An intimate portrait of the world's most iconic opera singerMaria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn's Callas springs to life as the headstrong, mercurial, and charismatic artist who captivated generations of fans, thrilling audiences with her brilliant performances and defiant personality.Unlike any other diva who achieved world renown, Callas came from an impoverished background. As an outsider, she was shunned by the Italian opera houses, but through sheer force of will and the power and range of her voice, she broke through the invisible wall to sing at La Scala and headline at the Metropolitan Opera, forging an unforgettable career. Adored by celebrities and statesmen, the notable and notorious alike, her every movement was shadowed by both music critics and gossip columnists--until, having lost her voice, she died alone in an opulent, mausoleum-like Paris apartment.In Charyn's inimitable style, Maria La Divina humanizes the celebrated diva, revealing the mythical artist as a woman who survived hunger, war, and loneliness to reach the heights of acclaim.
Libro para hablarles a los ni os sobre la depresi n y la salud mental. Sinopsis: Cuando Mar a despert una ma ana, sinti como si se hubiera tirado de cabeza en un oc ano de aguas profundas, hundi ndose hasta tocar fondo. Moraleja: Hay veces que, tocando fondo, encontramos galaxias de nuevas posibilidades. Nunca es ni muy temprano ni muy tarde para tratar el tema de la salud mental con los ni os y j venes.
Maria is a young girl, living with her grandmother - Abuelita Mar a in Guanajuato, Mexico. She is a very strong, smart and helpful girl who willingly helps anyone she sees in need. As time passes, word about her helpful nature spreads until people begin coming to her whenever they need someone's help, and Maria ends up being beloved by everyone in Guanajuato.
Maria is a young girl, living with her grandmother - Abuelita Mar a in Guanajuato, Mexico. She is a very strong, smart and helpful girl who willingly helps anyone she sees in need. As time passes, word about her helpful nature spreads until people begin coming to her whenever they need someone's help, and Maria ends up being beloved by everyone in Guanajuato.
200 sudoku puzzles to help you relieve stress and sharpen your mind Doing sudokus is a fantastic way to stay mentally fit and improve your focus. With 200 puzzles ranging from very easy, easy, medium, and challenging--all in a minimalist, stylish design--this sudoku collection is perfect for anyone looking for a fun way to stimulate their brain 200 sudokus: Ranging in difficulty from very easy, easy, medium, to challengingTravel size: The book's 6" x 9" size makes it perfect for travel or on-the-go solvingLayflat and large print: The book lays flat for easy writing, and there's only one sudoku per page for easy visibilityHigh quality: Durable cover and premium paper, totaling 240 pagesAnswer key included: Solutions to all puzzles are provided at the back of the book for quick reference This sudoku book is brought to you by MOSH, a mission-driven brain health and wellness company that was founded by Maria Shriver and Patrick Schwarzenegger to inspire optimal brain health at every stage of life through nutrition, education, research, and advocacy. For more information, visit www.moshlife.com.
100 word searches to help you relieve stress and sharpen your mind Engaging in word searches is a fantastic way to stay mentally fit and expand your vocabulary. With its minimalist, stylish design, this word search collection is perfect for anyone looking for a fun way to stimulate their brain 100 word searches: 100 puzzles with themes about wellness and mindfulness to inspire and motivate youTravel size: The book's 6" x 9" size makes it perfect for travel or on-the-go solvingLayflat and easy to read: The book lays flat for easy writing, and the word searches are spread across two pages for readability High quality: Durable cover and premium paper, totaling 224 pages Answer key included: Solutions to all puzzles are provided at the back of the book for quick reference This word search book is brought to you by MOSH, a mission-driven brain health and wellness company that was founded by Maria Shriver and Patrick Schwarzenegger to inspire optimal brain health at every stage of life through nutrition, education, research, and advocacy. For more information, visit www.moshlife.com.
100 crossword puzzles to help you relieve stress and sharpen your mind Doing crosswords is a fantastic way to stay mentally fit and expand your knowledge. With 100 easy- to medium-level puzzles in a minimalist, stylish design, this crossword collection is perfect for anyone looking for a fun way to stimulate their brain 100 crosswords of varying themes: Enjoy modern and fun clues covering pop culture, sports, healthy living, history, and moreEasy- to medium-level puzzles: Engaging puzzles suitable for crossword enthusiasts of all skill levelsExpert contributors: Created by renowned contributors whose work has been featured in the New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and moreTravel size: The book's 6" x 9" size makes it perfect for travel or on-the-go solvingLayflat and easy to read: The book lays flat for easy writing, and the puzzle grids and clues spread across two pages for readabilityHigh quality: Durable cover and premium paper, totaling 224 pages Answer key included: Solutions to all puzzles are provided at the back of the book for quick reference This crossword book is brought to you by MOSH, a mission-driven brain health and wellness company that was founded by Maria Shriver and Patrick Schwarzenegger to inspire optimal brain health at every stage of life through nutrition, education, research, and advocacy. For more information, visit www.moshlife.com.
