New Releases by Linda Hayward

Big A, little a...What begins with the letter A? Alliterative sentences and funny activities emphasize beginning sounds as kids practice writing capital and lower-case letters. Art and text inspired by Dr. Seuss''s ABC and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. EACH DR. SEUSS BEGINNER FUN BOOK FEATURES: * illustrations and text that have been adapted from the original Dr. Seuss books children and parents know and love. * simple directions on how to do all of the activities. * an inspirational word from the Cat himself. * a space for the child to personalize each book. * four pages bursting with colorful stickers of Dr. Seuss characters for use along with the activities.

Rhymes, stickers, and pictures help students learn the letters of the alphabet.

Waking up early one morning, Big Bird is surprised to discover who is up and about before the sun comes out.

You can count on Grover, the lovable, furry elevator operator to make counting all the way up to 10 as easy as 1,2,3.

A retelling of Uncle Remus''s classic tale of Brer Rabbit written for emergent readers! Brer Fox is always trying to catch Brer Rabbit. But Brer Rabbit is smart! Will he escape from a sticky trap set by that wily fox? Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories, for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. "About fifty sentences, with one or two per gracefully color-cartooned page, this tale is reduced to the most basic motifs, but it does respect the ones it keeps. It will be a book to hand to kids who clamor for a version they can read for themselves."--Bulletin, Center for Children''s Books.

Activities to help a child learn to count.

The Sesame Street characters visit the kinds of people and places you might find in your neighborhood: bakers, firefighters, news people, post office, pet store, etc. using stories, crafts, and other things to do.

Activities to help a child learn the alphabet.

The Sesame Street characters explore the concept of family through stories, crafts, and other things to do.

Grover''s vacation trip is spent having enjoyable times and collecting souvenirs to remember them by.

Five novels about the spirit of the holiday.

Sesame Street characters introduce various occupations. Includes words to the popular song and stories and activities about the neighborhood.

A boy and his friend share a sailing adventure.

Gathers an ABC book, the story of a little mouse and his house, and a little girl''s rules for tea parties with her teddy bear.

Retells the stories of a girl who explores the home of three bears, a trio of pigs who try to build sturdy houses, and a girl who meets a wolf on the way to her grandmother''s.

When Santa makes a toy train with wheels that roll for a special little boy, the train tries to roll out of Santa''s workshop.

A simple retelling of one of the "Tales of Uncle Remus" in which Brer Wolf hides in Brer Rabbit''s House in order to capture him when he comes home.

[Abstract] This study is a heuristic investigation of "What is the experience of encountering the self?" The intent was to identify and understand the essential structure and meaning of the experience. The inquiry involved three phases: (1) examining the literature, (2) immersion into the researcher''s own experience of self-encounter, and (3) exploring the meaning of the experience of self-encounter in others. The study was grounded in a human science framework, using a phenomenological-existential model to investigate the experience. Major phases of the process were immersion, incubation, illumination, explication, and creative synthesis. Qualitative interviewing and journaling were used to obtain descriptions of others'' experiences of selfencounter. Using these descriptions, key themes emerged and the structure of the experience was determined through the internal processing of the researcher. The structure of encountering the self reflects the unitary nature of the body-self experience. The experience is conceptualized in terms of a process of moving inward to experience the dynamic self as it emerges to the individual. The dynamism of the self-process emerges in the context of bodily-sensations, visualizations, and cognitive changes. Encountering the self implies a sense of trust in the absence of fear, and is experienced as integrated or disintegrated. Regardless, the result is an increased sense of integration and tranquility which flows and generalizes in the aftermath.