"We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there's one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it." What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive internet turning readers into web-surfing...

"200+ Original and Adapted Story Program Activities is Rob Reid's Greatest Hits concept. It gathers over 200 storytime activities (original fingerplays, movement activities, songs and musical activities, poems, and sound effect stories for preschool story programs) from previous ALA Editions books, Upstart books, and LibrarySparks magazine articles and shares them in one package. It also includes a dozen or so new (and previously unpublished) activities"--...

Many Christians mistakenly believe that their only choice is either to reconcile themselves to a fundamentalist reading of scripture (a "literal-factual" approach) or to simply reject the Bible as something that could bring meaning and value into their lives. In Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg shows how instead we can freshly appreciate all the essential elements of the Old and New Testaments-from Genesis to Revelation-in a...

"Pout-Pout Fish is learning to read! With his teacher's help, he meets some letters, some words, and some books. Reading is fun--that is, until he meets a really big word."--Jacket flap

Introduces the ten most common types of clouds, the myths that have been inspired by their shapes, and what they can tell about coming weather changes.

In Kelly Gallagher's high school classroom in Anaheim, California, students are not only learning to comprehend difficult novels and texts, they are developing the skills and behaviors of lifelong readers. Drawing from his books Reading Reasons and Deeper Reading, Kelly's new video set brings effective reading strategies to life. Presenting examples of both small- and whole-group discussions, Building Adolescent Readers demonstrates how to engage...

This comical collection of poems examines everything from taking tests, coming up with ever more original excuses for not doing homework, and the shock of seeing a teacher on a Saturday buying groceries like an actual human being.