Our passion is to show kids, how colourful and fascinating the world is. There is not only one way to live but so many. We love curious children and we do the books they need to explore the world. So we do travel books for kids and novels for the journey in a hammock.
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What makes children truly happy? The answer to that question is simple, but challenging: their social-emotional competences. Socially competent kids feel good and are more successful in different aspects of life. One of the most important tasks of a parent is therefore to support their children in developing social skills. This book shows parents how to encourage the social-emotional development of their children. It distinguishes eight skills: awareness of the self, social awareness, self-management, goal oriented behaviour, relational skills, personal responsibility, decision making, and positive thinking. After giving a clear introduction on social-emotional development, the author explains these skills in more detail in eight chapters. Each chapter contains a detailed real-life example, psychological background information, and practical interventions ready for use by parents, teachers and other caretakers. The interventions and examples are aimed at four to twelve year olds.
Explore the interesting and at the same time entertaining facts about our Solar System, planets annd stars, black hole and many more. On your adventure through I explore Universe book, you will be accompanied by a little alien called Fastarchik, who flew in from the planet FASTAR and decided to explore the Universe. The Fastarchik alien and the engaging illustrations encourage children to gradually discover the Solar system. Young explorers will find interestig educational facts, entertaining experiments on each page. Download free FastAR Kids app to watch planets and Solar System in AR! Read, learn and play!
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Einfach galaktisch: Science Fiction für Vorschulkinder Endlich Astronaut: Kelvin hat es geschafft und ist jetzt ein Kosmo Kid! Im Auftrag der Unendliche Weiten Erforschung darf er nun fremde Galaxien entdecken. Mit seiner galaktisch-guten Crew düst er los: Die Mechanikerin Astra, die alles reparieren kann, was ihr in die Finger kommt und in einem Schwebestuhl sitzt, weil sie nicht laufen kann. Der Yeti-Ritter Knurr, der zwar keine menschliche Sprache spricht, aber stark ist und gut kochen kann. Und das Roboterkind Nullkommanix - das Superhirn der Crew. Ihre aufregenden Abenteuer lassen sie keine Lichtsekunde durchschnaufen! Sie helfen bei einem galaktischen Notruf, retten kuschlige Alienhunde und halten sich glibberige Bösewichte vom Leib. Dieses rasante Science Fiction Vorlesebuch für Vorschulkinder ab 5 Jahren macht einfach nur Spaß. Ein wunderbares Abenteuer im Weltraum mit genialen Illustrationen und viel Witz – auch für nerdige Erwachsene! Die Kosmo Kids sind allseits im Einsatz! „Star Wars“ für Kleine: Die Kosmo Kids begeistern Kinder ab 5 Jahren für Science Fiction. Galaktischer Lesespaß: Vorlesebuch für kleine Weltraum-Fans, genial illustriert mit vielen Details zum Entdecken. Sympathische Helden: Die Freunde Kelvin, Astra, Knurr und Nullkommanix halten zusammen. Für Klein und Groß: Eine lustige Weltraumgeschichte für Vorschulkinder, garniert mit Witzen für nerdige Erwachsene. Mit seiner lustigen Weltraumgeschichte und nerdigen Witzen ist Kosmo Kids ein geniales Vorlesebuch für Vorschulkinder ab 5 Jahren und deren Eltern. Ein witziges, erstes Science Fiction Abenteuer und ein galaktischer Geschichtenspaß für gemeinsame Vorlesestunden.
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Incredible atlas for children 'Animals of Seven Continents' + Bright stickers with the worldwide animals! This atlas "Animals of Seven Continents" enables the child to plunge into the fairy-tale world of fauna of seven continents and five oceans. Due to the bright drawings and stickers, you will get acquainted with more than 400 illustrations of mammals, insects, crustaceans, amphibians, reptiles, toddlers and many other living beings. At the end of the book, you will find a page with stickers that you can attach in the right place on the appropriate continent. Stickers will help children realize that some animals live on all continents, and some inhabit only a few places of the Earth. This book also helps young readers to study current environmental concepts and terms such as "conservation of nature", "global warming", "sustainable development". Simple research will turn your children into young ecologists! This book is aimed at developing children and makes it possible for parents to have interesting discussions with their children.
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Children love poems. So before Christmas, the Old Lion and a group of modern Ukrainian poets and illustrators created this elegant book to read in the family circle. Snow Poems for Kids are full of fun snow games, magical gifts from St. Nicholas and magical moments of Christmas and New Year. Also, the Old Lion reminds young readers to take care of birds and animals in winter. The collection includes poems by Mariana Savka, Halyna Malyk, Halyna Kirpa, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Oleksandr Dermanskyi, Ihor Kalynets, Oksana Lushchevska, Oksana Krotiuk, Hryhorii Falkovich, Tetiana Vynnyk, Yulia Smal, Natalia Poklad, Olesia Mamchych, Ivan Andrusiak , Oleksandr Orlov. Compiler - Natalka Maletych. Illustrated by: Dasha Rakova, Oksana-Olexandra Drachkovska, Yuliia Pylypchatina, Nataliia Oliynyk, Bohdana Bondar, Oksana Bula, Marta Koshulynska, Kateryna Sad.
Is fidelity an agreement with an expiration date?Does infidelity always involve heartbreak and conflict?After we discovered an infidelity, is it possible to repair and restore trust?Living a committed and loving relationship is a deeply human longing. The issue ofinfidelity (a frequent love conflict) must be addressed by integrating thecontradictions and ambivalences of human nature, particularly on the topic oflove. Infidelity is a very complex phenomenon that is characterized by theexistence of a “villain” and a “victim”. Many times it is explained in a moralistic wayand that prevents exploring the motivations that drive it, the beliefs that supportit and the procedures that complicate it. Love requires commitment andcertainties, while erotic desire opens different paths within the same territory oflove. The correct management of these two forces is key to understanding andovercoming infidelity.
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Mazen, a young boy, is one day surprised by their neighbor Bassam shouting with anger in the street “My parking spot is a red line!” Does this mean he plans to paint the street red, asks Mazen to his mother? The mother explains to Mazen that what Bassam means is simply that no one is to park in his place. The notion is still vague to Mazen: Why red? Does it have anything to do with red traffic lights? The mother tries again “When something is a red line, it means that it is off limits to others”. In this illustrated album, Samar Barraj boldly addresses the delicate issue of child sexual abuse. Acknowledging the complexity of the boundary it tackles, the book determines it through examples the mother and child raise in their conversation. Mazen’s spontaneous remarks and comments point out the difficulty of defining this red line, and make of the book a realistic example of such a conversation. The illustrations develop the notion further, by representing situations in which the red line might be crossed – one may be on his bicycle, at his computer, or approached by a respectable-looking old man in the street. The body parts are not named, but are represented in a naïve drawing Mazen made, though the text insists on the importance of preserving the body as a whole. The colorful images and constant presence of the mother and parents make of the book a reassuring experience despite the gravity of the topic.
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“I am happy now, I have two homes instead of one. I visit my father in the village during the weekend. My mom reads me bedtime stories And I will not see her sad anymore.” The story targets a big part of any community nowadays; it deals with divorce from the children’s perspective. It shows the separation’s psychological damages on the child if not well approached. It facilitates the smooth and healthy acceptance of divorce for both parents and children.
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This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant writers, theologians, philosophers, educationalists, politicians and parents from the early seventeenth century up to the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion. The book is structured around a detailed examination of six 'versions' of the child: the evil child, the vulnerable/innocent child, the political child, the believing child, the enlightened child, and the freakish child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres (fiction, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles), showing how concepts of childhood related to debates about Irish nationality, politics and history across these two centuries.
Are you tired of asking your partner and explaining what you need, and receive noresponse? Are you frustrated by feeling that your needs are not considered? Do you fearthat your relationship will limit your personal growth? Do you feel that there is love, butalso that his love catches you and wears you down? Many people, particularly women, seek therapy for symptoms like depression and anxiety, but without clear awareness of what causes them. Many blame themselves for not being “good enough, ” and not understanding to their partners.The common denominator of their mental health challenge is the minimization and invisibility caused by the oppression in in their exchanges with their partner, as opposed to receiving encouragement and support for their personal and professional development. This oppression will lead to diminishment and limiting their decisions through silences,gestures, humiliations or even physical violence, while they protect themselves byassuming a role that is lower than that of his/her partner. Jerks are not always easy to identify; they tend to confuse their partners with effusivedisplays of love that cover up their high doses of control and abuse. We talk about thejerks, those men who make people fall in love with sweet words, flowers and attention and who, little by little, display their crude, aggressive and even dangerous ways of “loving”. They destroy self-esteem and make their prey feel guilty for their behaviors. This book is a guide that speaks to the person trapped in a pitiful relationship. To reflect on your daily life and identify the characteristics of an abusive relationship, leading her by the hand to recognize the beliefs that trap her, to distinguish the patterns that she repeats, and to put into practice techniques that will allow her to get out of the abuse,recover, and bloom again.
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Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire. It analyses the construction and transmission of nineteenth-century British child rescue ideology. Locating the origins of contemporary practice in the publications of the prominent English Child rescuers, Dr Barnardo, Thomas Bowman Stephenson, Benjamin Waugh, Edward de Montjoie Rudolf and their colonial disciples and literature written for children, it shows how the vulnerable body of the child at risk came to be reconstituted as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. Yet, as the shocking testimony before the many official enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home 'care' held in Britain, Ireland, Australia and Canada make clear, there was no guarantee that the rescued child would be protected from further harm.
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Mega and her class are preparing for a parade. Mega wants to sew costumes but she can't because she doesn't have fingers. But Mega has a trunk and she is very good at cooking. She can do something that other kids in the class can't do!
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique wurde am 19. Februar 1939 in Lima als Sproß einer peruanisch-englischen Familie geboren. Ab 1957 studierte er in Lima an der Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos gleichzeitig Jura und Literaturwissenschaften. 1963 erlangte er seinen Titel als Anwalt und schloß 1964 sein literaturwissenschaftliches Studium mit einer Arbeit über Hemingway ab. Noch im selben Jahr reiste Bryce Echenique nach Paris, wo er an der Sorbonne neben Diplomen in klassischer und moderner französischer Literatur auch eine Doktorarbeit begann. Neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit an verschiedenen Universitäten Frankreichs, darunter Nanterre und Montpellier, war er ab 1975 auch für das »Suplemento Cultural« der mexikanischen Tageszeitung »El Sol« journalistisch aktiv. 1984 zog er nach Madrid, um dort als freier Schriftsteller zu leben und zu arbeiten. Erst 1999 kehrte er ins heimatliche Lima zurück. Gleich mit seinem ersten Roman, Un mundo para Julius, (1970), erlangte er großes Auf- und Ansehen; der Roman wurde in 10 Sprachen übersetzt und ist längst ein lateinamerikanischer Klassiker. Bryce Echenique hat seitdem an die zwanzig Bücher veröffentlicht: Romane, Erzählungen, Autobiographisches, Artikelsammlungen. In der spanischsprachigen Welt gehört er zu den bekanntesten und angesehensten lateinamerikanischen Autoren. 2002 erhielt er für "Küss mich, Du Idiot" den renommierten italienischen Premio Grinzane Cavour. 2002 Auszeichnung mit dem Planeta-Preis. Matthias Strobel, geboren 1967, ist seit 1999 als freier Übersetzer für spanischsprachige Literatur und seit 2005 auch als Agent für lateinamerikanische Autoren tätig.
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique wurde am 19. Februar 1939 in Lima als Sproß einer peruanisch-englischen Familie geboren. Ab 1957 studierte er in Lima an der Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos gleichzeitig Jura und Literaturwissenschaften. 1963 erlangte er seinen Titel als Anwalt und schloß 1964 sein literaturwissenschaftliches Studium mit einer Arbeit über Hemingway ab. Noch im selben Jahr reiste Bryce Echenique nach Paris, wo er an der Sorbonne neben Diplomen in klassischer und moderner französischer Literatur auch eine Doktorarbeit begann. Neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit an verschiedenen Universitäten Frankreichs, darunter Nanterre und Montpellier, war er ab 1975 auch für das »Suplemento Cultural« der mexikanischen Tageszeitung »El Sol« journalistisch aktiv. 1984 zog er nach Madrid, um dort als freier Schriftsteller zu leben und zu arbeiten. Erst 1999 kehrte er ins heimatliche Lima zurück. Gleich mit seinem ersten Roman, Un mundo para Julius, (1970), erlangte er großes Auf- und Ansehen; der Roman wurde in 10 Sprachen übersetzt und ist längst ein lateinamerikanischer Klassiker. Bryce Echenique hat seitdem an die zwanzig Bücher veröffentlicht: Romane, Erzählungen, Autobiographisches, Artikelsammlungen. In der spanischsprachigen Welt gehört er zu den bekanntesten und angesehensten lateinamerikanischen Autoren. 2002 erhielt er für "Küss mich, Du Idiot" den renommierten italienischen Premio Grinzane Cavour. 2002 Auszeichnung mit dem Planeta-Preis. Matthias Strobel, geboren 1967, ist seit 1999 als freier Übersetzer für spanischsprachige Literatur und seit 2005 auch als Agent für lateinamerikanische Autoren tätig.
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Fearless Parenting is about parental authority in modern timesand its pivotal role in raising self-reliant, compassionate, and ethical children, and in preventing behavioral and even severe psychiatric disorders. The last generation witnessed a backlash against disciplining children. We as parents are told to engage in negotiation with our kids about their behavior. We are afraid to be tough with them in case they won't love us or worse—break down. As a result, families today face severe behavior problems at earlier ages, and parents throw up their hands in resignation. The main theme and objective of this book is to prove that setting and enforcing reasonable and appropriate boundaries, combined with learning and education, could save parents' relationships with their kids and literally save children’s lives. The book is unique in that it presents in a direct, simple, and yet profound way, real case studies and situations commonly encountered, along with severe cases of drug abuse, delinquencies, and mental disturbances. All cases are shown to respond very well to authority and boundaries adjusted to the specific situation and behavior. The book contains numerous references to professional material for the more advanced reader and derives inspiration from ancient philosophers and religious thinkers. Shulamit Blank, M.D, is a pediatrician and psychiatrist, specializing in child and adolescent behavioral disturbances. Dr. Blank is the founder and, since 1993, CEO of a community-based educational and treatment facility in Israel for children and adolescents with severe psychiatric and behavioral disorders, in which she is successfully implementing her methods, preventing psychiatric hospitalization and incarceration, and minimizing the use of psychiatric drugs through teaching and education adjusted to the child's specific problems, such as ADHD, learning disabilities, etc. Due to her breakthrough approach, Dr. Blank is well-recognized and fully involved in the professional community worldwide. Dr. Blank has three children and seven grandchildren and resides with her spouse near Tel Aviv. Orly Fuchs-Shabtai is a clinical psychologist. In 2006 she established a national program for the prevention of child violence. There are about thirty-five counselors from the therapeutic field in the program, which provides counseling to hundreds of families each year and to teachers of preschool through elementary school. Fuchs-Shabtai is the mother of three grown-up children and lives in Tel Aviv. The authors strive to follow the ancient wisdom of the biblical aphorism: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6). An English-Language eBook was published in fall 2014 by Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc., CA.
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This book object, composed of 30 cards, invites the reader to stop in the poetry that surrounds us.
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Ghadi is a young teenager of Lebanese origin, living in Brussels. Like so many Lebanese emigrants, Ghadi’s family comes to Lebanon during the summer holidays. Ghadi spends his summer with his cousin and friends in the family’s mountain house, among whom Rawan, the daughter of his grand-parent’s neighbors. Ghadi and Rawan are very close friends, and at the end of summer, when each of them goes their separate ways, they stay in touch via e-mail. The novel is built on their correspondence. From the moment the plane lands, Ghadi misses Lebanon and his friends, dreaming of the next summer. He has many friends at school, but he is also bullied by an older boy. Rawan, with her sense of humor and creativity is quite popular among her friends, and that year decides to run for the elections of the students’ representatives. Tensions at home are nevertheless more and more palpable, as Rawan’s father regularly comes home in a very bad temper. Rawan is convinced that her parents are on the verge of divorce. Having overheard a phone conversation, she also believes that her father has a lover. This situation is distressing, and Rawan has trouble concentrating at school. She feels lonely, and her anxiety pushes her away even from her closest friends. Meanwhile, in Brussels, Ghadi gets mixed up in drugs, unwillingly, and falls under the power of the boy who’s been bullying him. Each on their own, Rawan and Ghadi will find ways out of their problems, and will learn and grow from their experiences, while their friendship strengthens. With this novel for young adolescents (13 year olds), the two authors tackle issues that are central in the lives of young teens all over the world. The relationship to family members, to friends and classmates, drugs and violence, unemployment, racism, exile, identity and roots, are all issues that are touched upon in the novel.
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A painful incident at school leads Mila to take a very important but secret decision, which is to lose her excess weight. She is so determined to accomplish her goal in order to prove to everyone, especially those who bully her, that she is totally capable of it. Mila gets carried away with her goal to the extent of reaching the state of Anorexia. She denies having a problem for the longest time, until she realizes that her condition has become life threatening. This YA novel deals with the issue of Anorexia, an eating disorder that is becoming more common in many modern cities of our days. The author built the character of Mila based on several testimonies of teen agers and their accounts on their sufferings with Anorexia. Is it true that once Anorexic, always Anorexic? Mila will find out the hard way.
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