Most Popular Books by Barbara Mariconda

21 picture books each fictional nature & science stories designed for reading fun yet to pique a child''s interest in science, math, and geography learning. Includes: Baby Owl''s Rescue, Carolina''s Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!, Champ''s Story: Dogs Get Cancer Too!, Count Down to Fall, Fur and Feathers, Henry the Impatient Heron, Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean, Little Skink''s Tail, Riverbeds: Sleeping in the Worlds Rivers, How the Moon Regained Her Shape, If a Dolphin Were a Fish, Happy Birthday to Whooo?, One Odd Day, My Even Day, Newton and Me, Sort it Out!, Panda''s Earthquake Escape, Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter, Whistling Wings, What''s New at the Zoo: An Animal Adding Adventure and The Rainforest Grew All Around. 4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back 40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book''s homepage eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio

Explore numbers in wild and interesting ways with the 10 Sylvan Dell books in this Math Concepts Set. These books pair fun fictional stories with imaginative illustrations, which children will turn through again and again. Titles include: Big Cat, Little Kitty One Odd Day**, My Even Day**, My Half Day, One Wolf Howls**, In My Backyard**, Sort it Out**!. Count Down to Fall**, What''s New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure**, and What''s the Difference? An Endangered Animal Subtraction Story. (** Award Winners) 4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back 40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book''s homepage eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio.

With the aid of 12 mini-lessons and 50 reproducible sheets, teachers can help students bring their stories to life with effective writing strategies that lead to better dialogue, sentence variety, transitions, and dazzling descriptions.

Includes all 55 current Sylvan Dell titles: A Day in the Salt Marsh; A Day on the Mountain; ABC Safari; Animals are Sleeping; Astro: The Steller Sea Lion; Baby Owl''s Rescue; Blackberry Banquet; Burro''s Tortillas; Carolina''s Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!; Champ''s Story; Dogs Get Cancer Too!; Christmas Eve Blizzard; Count Down to Fall; Felina''s New Home: A Florida Panther Story; Furs and Feathers; Happy Birthday To Whooo?; Henry the Impatient Heron; How The Moon Regained Her Shape; If A Dolphin Were A Fish; If You Were A Parrot; In Arctic Waters; In My Backyard; Julie the Rockhound; Kersplatypus; Little Red Bat; Little Skink''s Tail; Loon Chase; Moose and Magpie; Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls; My Even Day; My Half Day; Newton and Me; Ocean Hide and Seek; Ocean Seasons; Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud; One Odd Day; One Wolf Howls; Pandas'' Earthquake Escape; Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet; Pieces of Another World; Ready, Set... WAIT!; River Beds: Sleeping in the World''s Rivers; Saturn for My Birthday; Sort it Out!; The Best Nest; The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights; The Rainforest Grew All Around; Tudley Didn''t Know; Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter; Turtles In My Sandbox; Twas the Day Before Zoo Day; Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean; What''s New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure; What''s the Difference? An Endangered Animal Subtraction Story; Where Should Turtle Be?; Whistling Wings.

This set includes all 55 current Sylvan Dell titles. Sylvan Dell Publishing will award any institution that purcahses 2 of these sets a 1-year eBook Site License, representing all titles. Proof of purchase necessary. The set comprises: A Day in the Salt Marsh; A Day on the Mountain; ABC Safari; Animals are Sleeping; Astro: The Steller Sea Lion; Baby Owl''s Rescue; Blackberry Banquet; Burro''s Tortillas; Carolina''s Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!; Champ''s Story; Dogs Get Cancer Too!; Christmas Eve Blizzard; Count Down to Fall; Felina''s New Home: A Florida Panther Story; Furs and Feathers; Happy Birthday To Whooo?; Henry the Impatient Heron; How The Moon Regained Her Shape; If A Dolphin Were A Fish; If You Were A Parrot; In Arctic Waters; In My Backyard; Julie the Rockhound; Kersplatypus; Little Red Bat; Little Skink''s Tail; Loon Chase; Moose and Magpie; Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls; My Even Day; My Half Day; Newton and Me; Ocean Hide and Seek; Ocean Seasons; Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud; One Odd Day; One Wolf Howls; Pandas'' Earthquake Escape; Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet; Pieces of Another World; Ready, Set WAIT!; River Beds: Sleeping in the World''s Rivers; Saturn for My Birthday; Sort it Out!; The Best Nest; The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights; The Rainforest Grew All Around; Tudley Didn''t Know; Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter; Turtles In My Sandbox; Twas the Day Before Zoo Day; Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean; What''s New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure; What''s the Difference? An Endangered Animal Subtraction Story; Where Should Turtle Be?; Whistling Wings. 4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back 40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book''s homepage eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio

Regardless of our age or status, any one of us could be faced with a diagnosis - it might be a curable sickness or a chronic disease, a serious condition or a terminal illness. In the 21st century, dying is, more often than not, an elongated process that may stretch out for many years. And since all of us will, eventually, die, the question is, how do we live well while dying? How can we avoid being bullied by the obsessive inner voices of anxiety and fear that leave us self-absorbed and disconnected from the very life we hope to save? In this book, we''ll share a rare slice of heaven that can be grasped on this side of the grave, at any point along the path of living and dying. A place beyond acceptance. A place of transformation in which we can realize, in the fullest, purest way, what our life''s purpose has been, and what an amazing gift we can entrust to those we''ll leave behind. We can learn to embrace mystery, to understand that our suffering can be transformative. Our legacy can become one of love - pure, powerful, and eternal. It''s never too early to embark on this work of living and loving that begins and ends with God. Healing work that deepens faith and enriches relationships, inspires open, honest, and loving conversations, and frees us from the burdens of our ego selves. As inspirational as it is practical, this book is intended for patients and caregivers, friends and family - anyone struggling to live life wholly and joyfully during the challenges of sickness, dying, and death.

Packy the Packrat''s mother has had enough! It''s time that he sorts through his ever-growing collection of trinkets and puts them away. Told in rhyme, the text leads the reader to participate in the sorting process by categorizing Packy''s piles of things according to like characteristics and attributes. The story promotes and reinforces analogous thinking--a critical thinking skill in math, science, and life. In the "For Creative Minds" education section at the back of the book, the reader can explore even more attributes and characteristics of objects, including color, size, texture, shape, and material.

"What you will find in this book: comprehensive background information for teachers; lesson plans for grammar, subject/verb agreement, parts of speech, word usage, sentence structure, transitional words and phrases, revising run-on sentences; contractions, tricky words, and homophones; understanding domain specific language; developing general academic vocabulary; literal vs. figurative language; utilizing contextual clues; formal vs. informal voice; games and activities to make learning fun; application opportunities within the lessons; mini-assessments for use throughout the year; test-taking strategies; "--back cover.

"This book provides models of powerful writing in all curriculum areas ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, Technology, Visual Art, Music, and Physical Education. Each piece is annotated for class discussion. Guiding questions, tips and troubleshooting ideas, and additional related prompts are provided." --Publisher''s website.

"In an engaging, fast-paced ten minutes a day, students continue to learn how sentences are constructed, recognize the parts of simple sentences, parts of speech, grammar and punctuation, while reinforcing the basic characteristics of narrative and expository writing. Included in this resource: a week-at-a-glance, day-by-day teacher guide, weekly sentence-building word cards for creative work and learning stations, and related art pages to inspire thematic thinking and writing. There are enough weekly themes for 38 weeks of school, plus a bonus week at the end. In just ten minutes a day students not only learn how to write many types of sentences and build powerful vocabulary, but also become familiar with the conventions of genre." --Publisher''s website.

21 picture books, each fictional nature & science themed and designed for reading fun but to pique a child''s interest in science, math, and geography learning. Includes: Burros Tortillas, Count Down to Fall**, A Day in the Salt Marsh**, A Day in the Mountain**, Happy Birthday to Whooo?**, In Arctic Waters, In My Backyard, Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys and Gulls**, My Even Day**, Big Cat, Little Kitty Deep in the Desert, My Half Day, Newton and Me**, One Odd Day**, One Wolf Howls**, Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet, The Rainforest Grew All Around**, Sort it Out!**, Twas the Day Before Zoo Day**, What''s New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure, What''s the Difference? An Endangered Animal Subtraction Story(**Award Winners). 4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back 40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book''s homepage eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio.