疫情肆虐，勤洗手成為建立良好衛生習慣的第一步。Big Steps幼兒生活教育操作書，以外出回家後要洗手等情境帶領孩子邊玩邊學習清潔的重要性，也提供家長教學小要點。The Big Steps series is designed to help little ones cope with everyday experiences in their lives. In Let's Wash Our Hands, meet two adorable toddlers who learn all about washing their hands and bath time!Follow the ups and downs of their journey, brought to life with fun flaps and mechanisms. Each page has really helpful tips for parents and carers that are endorsed by The Good Toy Guide and leading Early Years Consultant, Dr Amanda Gummer. With delightful illustrations from Marie Kyprianou, Let's Wash Our Hands is a brilliant way to introduce cleanliness in a fun and relatable way.For more toddler tips read No More Nappies, No More Dummies and I'm Starting Nursery.The Big Steps series has been endorsed and recommended by Dr Amanda Gummer's Good Toy Guide.
A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2024A Kirkus Best Picture Book of the YearA Kirkus Best Picture-Book Conversation Starter of 2024A 2024 Kids’ Indie Next List pickA Society of Illustrators 2024 Gold Medal WinnerFrom three-time NYT Best Illustrated creator of On a Magical Do-Nothing Day comes a stunning picture book about a little girl, the scab on her knee, and the healing they do together. In this utterly enchanting and unexpected tale from international picture book star Beatrice Alemagna, a childhood mishap is the occasion for growth and self-reflection. When a little girl falls on the street, scraping her knee, her father tells her not to worry, that "a beautiful scab will form." But she does worry! The scab is not beautiful and it's keeping her from bending her knee! When will it ever go away? By the time the scab--who she has named Pepper--falls off, something astonishing has happened: the girl has come to feel affection for the scab and has a hard time letting go. With a
Filled with simple, black-and white images of every type of fun and furry monster you can think of - and lots you can't! Just use the brush provided to sweep water over the designs and rainbow hues magically appear. Great for keeping little ones busy and helping them to learn brush control skills at the same time. Perfect for travel.Simply tuck the waterproof back flap under each page as it's painted, to stop water from seeping through to the rest of the book.
*An Instant New York Times Bestseller* The Secret Garden meets A Wrinkle in Time in Greenwild: The World Behind the Door, the first book in the most extraordinary new fantasy series.Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the earth itself . . . Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Daisy knows it's up to her to find Ma--but someone is hunting her across London. Someone determined to stop her from discovering the truth. So when Daisy flees to safety through a mysterious hidden doorway, she can barely believe her eyes--she has stepped out of the city and into another world. This is the Greenwild. Bursting with magic and full of amazing natural wonders, it seems too astonishing to be true. But not only is this land of green magic real, it holds the key to finding Daisy's mother. And someone wants to destroy it. Daisy must band together with a bo
BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICKGOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOKS OF 2022GLAMOUR BEST BOOKS OF 2022'Full of heart and humour . . . I loved it.' Ruth Hogan'Will stay with you for a long time.' Anstey Harris'I defy you to put it down once you've started' Cynthia D'Aprix SweeneyAfter Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors – until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late...Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a reminder that sometimes taking a hard
Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive―that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony’s creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb, and that Mickey is the only one who’s keeping them from using it. Mickey’s just another colonist now. Instead of cleaning out the reactor core, he spends his time these days cleaning out the rabbit hutches. It’s not a bad life.It’s not going to last.It may be sunny now, but winter is coming. The antimatter that fuels the colony is running low, and Marshall wants his bomb back. If Mickey agrees to retrieve it, he’ll be giving up the only thing that’s kept his head off of the chopping block. If he refuses, he might doom the
Pete has a hard time fitting in at his new school, but he soon learns that bullying and tolerating bad behavior is not in keeping with Mandell Elementary's "Promise."
圖像小說《鱷魚探員》五度出擊！引人注目的新總部讓鱷魚探員們難以維持平時的低調作風，即便如此大小犯罪仍逃不過能力一流的他們。快跟上鱷魚探員的腳步一起追蹤不明組織Boulder Buddies！Our favorite sewer-loving secret agents between a rock and a hard place in InvestiGators: Braver and Boulder, the newest chapter in the hilarious New York Times-bestselling adventure series from John Patrick Green.The Investigators are having a hard time keeping a low profile with their new headquarters being a giant robot towering over the city! How can they be SECRET agents if everyone recognizes them? But with their ears to the ground, Mango and Brash hear mysterious rumblings about BOULDER BUDDIES . . . are they just the latest fad or part of a mob-run scheme? And could a rocky relationship from the Investigators' past be hiding beneath the surface? Find out in their most stone-cold dangerous mission yet!
Small-town drama, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in this YA debut that explores how racial violence can ripple down through generations.What’s more important? Knowing the truth or keeping the peace?Seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson is convinced her senior year is ruined when she's uprooted from her life in DC and forced into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The tension between Avery’s mom and Mama Letty makes for a frosty arrival and unearths past drama they refuse to talk about. Every time Avery tries to look deeper, she’s turned away, leaving her desperate to learn the secrets that split her family in two.While tempers flare in her avoidant family, Avery finds friendship in unexpected places: in Simone Cole, her captivating next-door neighbor, and Jade Oliver, daughter of the town’s most prominent family―whose mother’s murder remains unsolved.As the three girls grow closer―Avery and Simone’s friendship blossoming into romance―th
Our favorite sewer-loving secret agents between a rock and a hard place in InvestiGators: Braver and Boulder, the newest chapter in the hilarious full-colour New York Times-bestselling graphic novel adventure series from John Patrick Green.The InvestiGators are having a hard time keeping a low profile with their new headquarters being a giant robot towering over the city! How can they be SECRET agents if everyone recognizes them?But with their ears to the ground, Mango and Brash hear mysterious rumblings about BOULDER BUDDIES . . . are they just the latest fad or part of a mob-run scheme? And could a rocky relationship from the InvestiGators' past be hiding beneath the surface? Find out in their most stone-cold dangerous mission yet!
'Someone has to stand against the dark. And you're the only one who can.' For years, the local Spook has been keeping the County safe from evil. Now his time is coming to an end, but who will take ove
Edited by Douglas Wingeier, this is a Lectionary-based Adult Bible study for Year B. Weekly session plans are included that can be used by a Sunday morning class on either the preceding Sunday or on t
Keeping the Nation’s House unsettles the assumptionthat home economics training lies far from the seats of power byrevealing how elite Chinese women helped to build modern China onefamily at a time.
Daisy Phillips is tired of being treated like an old lady. Sure, there was that incident with the lawn mower and the mud. And she did get trapped at the top of a ladder. But that doesn’t make her inca
