Why do we decorate our Christmas trees as we do? This delightful Christmas epic will show how the evergreen branches, lights, garlands, and the other traditional decorations can be used to "train up a child in the way he should go" through the poetic telling of the Gospel Story of Jesus Christ and His Message to the world as the symbolic ornaments are hung on the tree.
Mara Alperin; Catherine Brereton; Susie Brooks; James Carter; Donna David; Rachael Davis; Ella Foxglove; Clive Gifford; Sital Gorasia Chapman; Sam Hume; Rebecca Lewis-Oakes; Ros Roberts; Toby Thompson; Simon Yeend
True tales told in wonderful ways A new adventure each time in this interactive non-fiction gift book. You’re in charge! Twirl the spinner on the cover to land on one of four categories: EXPLORE, WONDER, LAUGH and OOH! Pick a true tale within that category. Read and enjoy. Then spin again to choose your next adventure. Land on green and choose from one of the EXPLORE tales, which includes red crab migration on Christmas Island and the best place to holiday in space! Spin to yellow for WONDER – be amazed by polar lights, coral reefs, and more! Twirl to orange for LAUGH – have a giggle over the dinosaur riddle, discover how to tell a funny joke, find out about weird uses of wee, and other fun things. And turn to blue for OOH! – with surprising tales about slime, robots, talking plants, rocks that play music, the reasons why kids are better than grown-ups …AND MORE!
This book is about life and love. It is also about the courage to dare to live without boundaries and to learn how to bounce back no matter what happens to you. Through events the author lived and some analysis of societal and cultural trends, you will be exposed to new perspectives that will help you turn the negative events you are facing into positive outcomes. From dealing with the harsh realities of divorce to learning about hormonal challenges and living through bankruptcy and foreclosure, the author writes with a tint of humor that will leave you with a smile on your face.
Help children to develop strong resilience, positive self-esteem and confidence with a whole-school approach, including an evidence-based theoretical framework for practical activities, and guidance on how to measure the impact of interventions over time. Includes:· An overview of the mental toughness model: providing a strong theoretical underpinning for the practical activities.· Guidance on using psychometrics with young people: showing how questionnaires can be used to design an intervention and measure impact.· Practical classroom activities for Reception to Year 6, organised into teaching sessions.· Accompanying downloadable and editable slides to help teach each session, and an example video lesson for each year group.
The Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts. It is also a concrete attempt to put into practice a theory of scholarly editing that gives new insight into Thackeray's own compositional process.Written in 1839-40 for Fraser's Magazine, Catherine was Thackeray's first novel. Although originally intended as a spoof of the 1830s Newgate school of criminal romance, it has intrinsic merit of its own for its cynical narrator and roguish heroine, both of whom harbinger similar creations in Vanity Fair eight years later.
Catherine Currie began writing her diary at Ballan in 1873. Soon afterwards, she left with her husband and young children to take up a selection deep in the forests of west Gippsland. Catherine's life was one of unrelenting daily work, which she recorded faithfully in the diary. As the years wore on and her early pioneering optimism turned to disillusionment and sometimes despair, it also became a private confessional.This beautifully written and engrossing work uses parallel narratives to tell Catherine's story. Five skilfully written chapters catch the cadences of Catherine's diary, interweaving direct quotes with discreet comment and explanation. Between these chapters runs a twentieth century voice, offering thoughtful and lucid reflections on themes such as 'madness' and 'landscape', and illuminating Catherine's life for modern readers through the ideas of historians and theorists such as Michel Foucault and Paul Carter. Catherine is first and foremost a simple and moving story, bringing the reader into direct, vivid and personal contact with Catherine Currie. More subtly, it allows readers to glimpse those fine lines which separate life and text, chance and necessity, sanity and madness. A superb and moving study in both autobiography and biography, Catherine will give great pleasure to those many readers who delight in the subtlety of plain English.
Follows the life of a girl named Catherine. She is lucky to be in love with her best friend. She has a great family and overall a great life but Catherine discovers a dark secret from her family's past. Go on the journey as she uncovers the truth, a journey of life, love, tragedy and hope.
Some secrets are not meant to be sharedCatherine Bennet knows this better than anyone and the one she carries will remain hidden forever. This means she'll never marry and it never bothered her before she met Lord George. He's determined to breach the walls of defense so carefully constructed around her heart and she's just as determined to stay the course. Some secrets cannot be sharedAn agent for the Crown, Lord George Kerr, concealed his espionage activities beneath a blanket of gossip, drink and loose women. Though forced to resume a more mundane lifestyle among London's finest, he covertly seeks a traitor to England. All trails seem to converge around Miss Catherine Bennet, a reticent country miss, who unwittingly has captured his heart. Some secrets are beyond your controlWith the very lives of England's vast network of spies working undercover in Bonaparte's France hanging in the balance, Catherine is forced to face her worst nightmare. Her secret laid bare, can George love her enough to overcome what he learns?
Julia Donal writes about how her life and the life of her husband and young family was transformed in the worst possible way, and of the tragic and devastating effects that followed when her youngest daughter, Catherine, was hit by an articulated lorry in June 1972 - Catherine was just six years old.
