New Releases by Bonnie Risby

Lollipop Logic employs visual and pictorial clues to introduce and reinforce high-powered thinking for pre-readers. Seven different thinking skills—relationships, analogies, sequences, deduction, inference, pattern decoding, and critical analysis—are presented in a format designed to appeal to gifted young learners. This straightforward, one-of-a-kind tool gives wings to pre-readers and non-readers who are ready for a challenge but don’t yet have the reading skills for more traditional critical thinking activities. Now with full-color illustrations, this beloved classic has been fully updated with refreshed activities, images, and text to help young learners continue to soar into the stratosphere of thinking skills far beyond their reading levels.

With the new Lollipop Logic Book 2, prereaders, along with readers of all skill levels, can embark on an adventure of high-powered thinking using visual and pictorial clues.

This book is a truly integrated approach to geography, taking learners to a special location to share in adventures via captivating stories. This series received the Teachers'' Choice Award from Learning Magazine for best new curriculum materials in the United States. Grades 2-3

Educational title for gifted and advanced learners.

This collection serves as the perfect review of analogies that have been introduced in Thinking Through Analogies and Analogies for the 21st Century. Like these two favorite books, this book introduces students to a type of analogy and then gives practice recognizing and solving that type of analogy. Like 21st Century, the vocabulary reflects current events and culture. Build thinking skills by practicing 27 different types of analogies. Book jacket.

Imaginative logic puzzles are the pinnacle of this classic series designed to sharpen deductive reasoning skills and strengthen the ability to sort through information by formulating connections. Created with the classroom teacher in mind, these puzzles are both intriguing and easy to fit into lesson plans for the gifted and talented, as well as many main course curriculums. Designed for teachers frustrated with complicated logic exercises that are beyond the scope of one class period, the Connectionspuzzles are formatted for success within 50-minute pullout programs. Each puzzle includes an introduction, clues, grid, and an illustration. Many educators have found Connectionsthe best exercise to introduce deductive reasoning skills while enhancing enthusiasm. Exercises are simple to use and gradually present ever-increasing challenges.

Imaginative logic puzzles are the pinnacle of this classic series designed to sharpen deductive reasoning skills and strengthen the ability to sort through information by formulating connections. Created with the classroom teacher in mind, these puzzles are both intriguing and easy to fit into lesson plans for the gifted and talented, as well as many main course curriculums. Designed for teachers frustrated with complicated logic exercises that are beyond the scope of one class period, the Connectionspuzzles are formatted for success within 50-minute pullout programs. Each puzzle includes an introduction, clues, grid, and an illustration. Many educators have found Connectionsthe best exercise to introduce deductive reasoning skills while enhancing enthusiasm. Exercises are simple to use and gradually present ever-increasing challenges. The thinking skills introduced dovetail easily into other aspects of the curriculum. Capture students'' attention and challenge their intellectual talents with this first-rate series.