Most Popular Books by Ruth Heller

After the sun insults her, the moon gets very upset and disappears, but with the help of her friends, the moon gains more self-confidence each day until she is back to her full size. Includes facts about the moon''s phases and related activities.

Go on a fascinating nature hunt to find the butterflies, bees, inchworms, and other intriguing insects hiding in the brilliantly-painted pages of this book.

Perfect for introductory grammar lessons! What is a verb? Explore language and discover how to identify verbs and their many forms from the imperative mood to active vs. passive voice to verb phrases. “Heller’s… concept book explicates and celebrates verbs of all kinds, in ebullient verses which themselves sail and soar.” —Publishers Weekly “Graphic play and world play make this an ingenious lesson that no classroom grammarian should miss.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books “Children will find it a painless and concise grammar lesson as well as a visual treat… A boon for language arts teachers as well as for all children and adults who love to play with language.” —School Library Journal About the Explore! series: Dedicated to helping children learn a variety of nonfiction subjects, the Explore series uses pitch-perfect rhyming text and brilliantly illustrated images to make learning fun.

Nature’s Olympics offers concise poems about the natural world, including plants, animals, and birds. This book focuses on the flora and fauna of the Midwest. Nature’s Olympics has four sections dedicated to the different seasons: summer, autumn, winter, and spring. Poetic forms include haiku, tanka, sonnets, and free verse. The poems in Nature’s Olympics concern both wilderness areas and cities and show that the natural world inspires insight into human life. Readers will find the poems accessible.

With this Fantastic! publication, Ruth Heller''s bestselling language series is finally complete. This time, Heller picks up pen and paintbrush to explain interjections and conjunctions with her trademark wit and pictorial verve. Illustrations.

A polar bear, a deer, a zebra and other mammals hide in this nature book. Animals are shown alone and then artfully camouflaged on the next page.

Seventy carols from around the world plus historical descriptions of Christmas customs. Titles: * Carol of the Mistletoe Singers (Canadian) * Baloo Loo Lammy (Scotch) * Echo Carol (German) * Bells of Paradise (English) * Christmas, O Day! (Norwegian)

Perfect for introductory science and biology lessons! What do mammals have in common? They have fur. They nurse their young. They breathe fresh air. But what else? Explore nature and discover a variety of mammals—also known as viviparous animals—and the many ways that they are unique from one another. “Here are twenty double-page spreads all bright with mammals. Large, tiny, prehistoric, unusual—they are all here in repeatable rhymes, and a million-dollar word (viviparous) is tossed in for good measure.” —The Provident Bookfinder “Both simple and surprising, Heller''s sprightly picture books use verse and unusually harmonious pictures to introduce the animal kingdom. Chickens lists some of the many good things that come in egg packages, while Animals mentions all manner of mammals.” —Publishers Weekly About the Explore! series: Dedicated to helping children learn a variety of nonfiction subjects, the Explore series uses pitch-perfect rhyming text and brilliantly illustrated images to make learning fun. Books in the series: Explore Language 1. Behind the Mask: A Book About Prepositions 2. Cache of Jewels: And Other Collective Nouns 3. Fantastic! Wow! and Unreal!: A Book About Interjections and Conjunctions 4. Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs 5. Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives 6. Mine, All Mine!: A Book About Pronouns 7. Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns 8. Up, Up and Away: A Book About Adverbs Explore Nature 1. Animals Born Alive and Well: A Book About Mammals and Their Young 2. Chickens Aren''t the Only Ones: A Book About Animals Who Lay Eggs 3. The Reason for a Flower: A Book About Flowers, Pollen, and Seeds 4. Plants that Never Ever Bloom: A Book About Fungi, Ferns, and Other Plants Without Flowers

The Sargasso Sea and the sea life which inhabits the area, are explained in rhyme.

Line drawings of canvas work patterns, limited to traditional bargello designs.

Demonstrates how various reptiles such as snakes, iguanas, and geckos camouflage themselves in their natural habitats.

Describes and illustrates how colors combine in printing and how they affect our eyes.

The inimitable Ruth Heller shows young readers just how artwork gets reproduced from pictures to the printed page. With a four-page acetate printer''s proof bound right into the book and stunning illustrations that pop from each page, this unique, interactive book will appeal to all aspiring artists.

"Many nineteenth-century writers believed that the best tragedy should be read rather than performed, and they have often been attacked for their views by later critics. Through detailed analysis of Coleridge''s Shakespearean Criticism, Lamb''s On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, and Hazlitt''s Characters of Shakespeare''s Plays, Heller shows that in their concern with educating the reader these Romantics anticipate twentieth-century reader response criticism, educational theory, and film criticism."--Publishers website.

"Highly informative and lushly illustrated. An unbeatable combination for pleasure and learning." —Children''s Book Review Service "The illustrations and the vocabulary will delight small eyes and ears." —School Library Journal Q&A - Ruth Heller - A Paperstar Profile Ruth Heller - Profile How did you become interested in writing books for children? I loved reading to my own children, and when they started school, I became the P.T.A. library chairman. I was the one who got to pick and choose and spend a nice fat budget for the elementary school library. I feel as though I?ve been surrounded by children?s books for years.I suppose this and my strong art background are what prompted my trying to write. What is the biggest influence in your style of writing, and how has it changed since you first began? Hillaire Belloc, Gilbert and Sullivan, Edward Lear?I grew up reading all of them. I love their rhythm, and I loved reading Dr. Seuss to my children. No question, these were my influences.I think I?ve become wordier, not quite as minimal and succinct as I used to be. What made you decide to write a series on the parts of speech? Take a peek at the back end paper of the hardcover edition of A Cache of Jewels. You?ll see that I committed myself, in print, to writing a book for each part of speech.Here I am, ten years later, thankfully completing the very last book in this series. It will be published in 1998. Do you begin with the words or pictures when you are developing a book? How does the second part come together? The first step is to decide what I am going to say on each page. Then I can begin to visualize my illustrations. The words dictate what the illustration will be, but that still gives me many options.Sometimes the two come together easily, sometimes not. If not, I pursue new research material until something clicks. Did you learn anything new about the parts of speech while writing these books? I learned many things I had forgotten, and some new information and rules that I had never known. I also learned that the textbooks that I used for research were difficult to understand and somewhat boring, and that I am guilty of frequent misuse of the English language. How do you choose the images in your book? An art teacher once told me to fall in love with whatever I was drawing. So I choose images that I love: candy, ice cream, butterflies, sea creatures, carousels, jewels, etc.

Ruth Heller''s prose and pictures are the perfect means for discovering the variety of oviparous animals and their unique ways of laying eggs.

Lisa and her little brother Jon enjoy collecting stamps. But when their father holds a contest to decide which child will get a new large stamp album, Lisa has to solve a difficult problem. Set circa 1960, this chapter book also touches on World War II and civil rights. A Discussion Guide inspires readers to explore the book''s issues. ""A sweet period-piece that weaves the longing for a coveted prize, sibling rivalry, and a firm foundation in Jewish traditions and faith into an appealing and morally uplifting tale.""-Yona Zeldis McDonough, author of The Doll Shop Downstairs and The Cats in the Doll Shop "A good look at a loving family dealing with the issues of fairness and sexism."-Shutta Crum, author of Thomas and the Dragon Queen, Dozens of Cousins, Spitting Image, and Thunder-Boomer "A nostalgic tale about a Passover past that evokes strong feelings of family and tradition. A warm, inviting read."-Tara Lazar, author of The Monstore, I Thought This Was a Bear Book, and Little Red Gliding Hood

12 Sylvan Dell books between Reading Counts Levels 3.1 and 3.9: In Arctic Waters; Christmas Eve Blizzard; Sort It Out!; If You Were a Parrot; How the Moon Regained Her Shape; Loon Chase; Ocean Hide and Seek; Saturn for My Birthday; Blackberry Banquet; Where Should Turtle Be?; Carolina''s Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!; My Even Day

Describes how mushrooms, seaweed, lichen, moss, and ferns grow, and looks at plants that don''t flower, but still produce seeds.

Fabulous and intricate natural patterns challenge coloring enthusiasts in "Butterflies." The high quality paper is suitable for use with crayons, felt-tipped pens, water paints, pencils, or pastels. (Consumable)

A children''s book illustrator shares her daily routine and creative life, showing how the two are intertwined.

Rhyming text and pictures demonstrate the camouflage nature provides in the coloration of birds such as the plover, bittern, and potoo.

Introduces young children to nouns with simple rhyming text and paintings of all kinds of animals, flowers and fanciful objects.

A pictorial introduction to the animals that lay eggs - amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals.