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Kid Disasters

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Lauri Berkenkamp
Nomad Press
Softcover
$11.95
$8.96

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This book addresses all the "what now?" disasters that happen with kids around the house. Superman gets flushed down the toilet and clogs it up. How do you unclog the toilet? Your son sleeps on gum. It’s stuck in his hair and it’s picture day at school. How do you remove the gum from his hair? A moth flies into your daughter’s ear while on a camping trip. This humorous book provides answers to the above mentioned kid-disasters---and to many others.

Discovering Great Artists

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MaryAnn Kohl and Kinm Solga
Bright Ring Publishing, Inc.
Rebecca van Slyke
Softcover
$18.95
$12.04

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Discovering Great Artists offers 110 unique hands-on art activities in the style of 80 of the great masters. This is a unique opportunity to learn about artists' work.

Look at Me

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Carolyn Buhai Haas
Chicago Review Press
Jane Bennett Phillips
Softcover
$12.95
$9.71

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"Look at Me" contains scores of creative learning activities for babies and toddlers to encourage positive interaction between parents or caregivers and their children.

Mudworks

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MaryAnn Kohl
Bright Ring Publishing
Kathleen Kerr
Softcover
$14.95
$11.21

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Gathered together in one book are directions for making bead clay, salt and starch goo, and gingerbread architecture. There are ideas from simple to complex for both children and adults. ...an ideal book for a day care, pre-school or homeschool teacher.

Scribble Art

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MaryAnn Kohl
Bright Ring Publishing
Judy McCoy
Softcover
$$18.95
$14.21

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Within these pages are over 200 easy and open-ended independent art experiences. This Benjamin Franklin Award-Winning Book is a book for all ages.

Science Arts

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MaryAnn Kohl and Jean Potter
Bright Ring Publishing
K. Whelan Dery
Softcover
$18.95
$14.21

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Discover science concepts through the art experiences. Projects include Magnetic Rubbing, Stencil Leaves, Paint Pendulum, Ice Structures, Bottle Optics, and many more. Projects are divided by difficulty level as well as by adult oversight needed. This is a great teaching tool to encourage a love of science.

Learn-by-doing

Crayons and Computers

Computer art activies encourage children of 4 to 8 to explore the world of color by using a technological tool with which they are very familiar--the computer.

Ancient Israelites and their Neighbors

Thirty-five hands-on activities help children experience and connect with the ancient cultures of the Philistines, Israelites, and Phoenicians.

Discovering Great Artists

Read about the artists who celebrate a January birthday and create art in their creative style--Calder, Cezanné, Manet, Pollack.

Newly Arrived

Replay

Replay by award-
winning author, Sharon Creech is alternately funny and tender. Leo, the teller of the story, dreams he is the biggest star on broadway.

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