Best Selling Books by Nancy Polette

Current research shows that children''s abilities to think, perceive, create, and reason can be enhanced through carefully chosen picture books that promote cognitive development. This detailed guide, designed for teachers, librarians and parents, provides a comprehensive strategy for stimulating thinking skills in children (preschool through the primary grades).The book also aids in selecting books to share with children in a manner that deliberately promotes cognitive development.

Between 1942 and the end of 1944, 1514 flight nurses were trained at Bowman Field, Louisville, KY. 18 Medical Air Evacuation Squadrons were formed that transported 1,176,048 sick and wounded soldiers, sailors and Marines. These flight nurses were pioneers in the intensive care of patients in flight in Europe, the Pacific, China and Burma using the C-47, C-46 and C-54s as flying hospitals from battle aid station to inter-theatre and inter-continental flights back to the U.S. In spite of the hardships, only 46 of the 1,176,048 patients who were evacuated by air during World War II died en route. Here are the stories of nineteen of these women who represent more than 1500 flight nurses who made this amazing statistic possible.

Margaret Utinsky was the determined woman who risked her life again and again to save the lives of hundreds of prisoners of war. This was the woman, who, when her capture was a sure thing, made her way into the hills and served for two years under constant attack as the only medical help available to wounded resistance fighters. In 1946 a grateful nation presented Miss "U" with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This is her story.

Provides guidance to promote literacy and reading in the home and school library.

Games, puzzles, creative book report forms for sharing books.

Gives teaching suggestions for use with each of the novels, built around the theme of economic concepts.

Activities to introduce characters, setting, plot, stories and creative writing activities based on well-known tales.

Excerpts from eleven children''s plays introduce examples of fairy tales, myths and fantasy and allow for student interpretation.

"What if Miss Muffett decided to confront the spider rather than running away? Suppose it was the garden that was contrary rather than Mary. Here are rhymes to take you flying in very different directions with Mother Goose. Characters in tough situations apply creative problem solving that will have young readers and adults laughing, and perhaps, coming up with creative solutions of their own."--Publisher''s website.

Gives teaching suggestions for use with each of the novels, built around the theme of overcoming adversity.

Contains book talk scripts for juvenile books which feature sensitive, positive, and accurate portrayals of one or more cultural groups.

Contains 101 activities designed to teach children about nineteen books that have won the Coretta Scott King Award.

Amazing story of Col. Ruby G. Bradley, most highly decorated woman in the US Army. She served as a nurse during WW II and was a prisoner of was in the Philippines.

Introduces the vitally important topic of the environment by using thirty outstanding picture books.

Harold''s imagination takes him on an adventurous romp through the alphabet with a number of familiar storybook characters.