New Releases by Fiona WATT

A little mouse searches for its polar bear, using textures to help identify the right one.

The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness.

From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America''s self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfranchisement, violence, and prejudice. In Identity and the Failure of America, "John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightful readings, Michael analyzes such cultural moments as the epic dramatization of the tension between individual ambition and communal complicity in Moby-Dick, "attempts to effect social change through sympathy in the novels of Lydia Marie Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson''s antislavery activism and Frederick Douglass''s long fight for racial equity, and the divisive figures of John Brown and Nat Turner in American letters and memory. Focusing on exemplary instances when the nature of the United States as an essentially conflicted nation turned to force, Michael ultimately posits the development of a more cosmopolitan American identity, one that is more fully and justly imagined in response to the nation''s ethical failings at home and abroad. John Michael is professor of English and of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values and Emerson "and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World."

A little mouse searches for his dragon based on the textures of his claws, tongue, tail and scales.

The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness.

Young readers may touch various surfaces on rabbits that are not the one someone is looking for, until at last the right one appears. On board pages.

Offers creative ideas for all kinds of art projects and teaches about brushes, papers, special effects, and using different paints, pastels, inks, crayons, and other media.

A mouse searches for his fairy.

Summary: Babies and toddlers will love following the ridged trail to halp Stan the Snail find his friend, Sam.

Presents simple recipes for lunchtime dishes and sweet treats.

Christmas projects include directions for making cards, games and decorations.

These bright pictures and patches of different textures will help develop sensory and language awareness in very young chidlren.

Provides a practical introduction to face painting for young beginners.

An introduction to drawing, making and decorating letters, and designing your own alphabet.

An introduction to the processes which cause earthquakes or eruptions and the effects.