Something weird is going on! Ms. LaGrange talks funny and she's from some other country called France! She thinks the vomitorium is a fancy restaurant! She grows her own food right out of the ground!
My Reading Library - 50 books (附音檔QRcode)50 books to guide your child through the early stages of reading 含50本讀本，其中1. 最初級的17本，出自Usborne First Reading 系列的Level Three。這些故事，包含很多經典的童話故事，可以培養小朋友的自信。2. 再來的19本，出自Usborne First Reading系列的Level Four, 故事稍長，希望訓練小朋友能有閱讀一段故事的耐心。3. 本套書裡最難的14本，出自Usborne Young Reading系列的Series One, 本套書的任何一本都有包含幾個生動的短篇故事，或是一篇簡單、好讀的長篇故事。書目如下PART A (17本)01 Chicken Licken02 The Ant and the Grasshopper03 The Boy who Cried Wolf04 The Bug Who Wanted A Hug05 The Dinosaur Who Lost His Roar06 The Dinosaur who Stayed Indoors07 The Fox and the Crow08 The Fox and the Stork09 The Gingerbread Man10 The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs11 The King's Pudding12 The Leopard and the Sky God13 The Lion and the Mouse14 The Little Red Hen15 The Musicians of Bremen16 The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse17 The Magic Porridge PotPART B (19本)18 Baba Yaga the Flying Witch19 Beauty and the Beast20 Cinderella21 Goldilocks and the Three Bears22 How Tortoise Tricked the Birds23 Jack and the Beanstalk24
A heartbreaking and heart-warming story of the sacrifices parents make for their children, by CBCA New Illustrator of the Year 2021.Notable Book: Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) - Picture Book of the Year 2023--------------------------------------------------------------------------------It goes without saying that all children believe their parents to be strange.Mine were unusual for a different reason...One boy's parents travel from far-off lands to improve their son's life. But what happens next is unexpected. What does it mean when your parents are different? What shape does love take? And what happens when your parents sacrifice a part of themselves for you?In this heartbreaking and heart-warming story, CBCA award-winner Zeno Sworder reflects on his own migrant parents' sacrifices to create a universal story about what it means to give to those you love. Drawing from the sacrifices his Chinese mother made to raise her young family in a small country town, Sworder's dra
Provides an overview of the United States of America, discussing such topics as its geography, history, government, indigenous peoples, plants and animals, holidays, and symbols.
這本感人的繪本，講述了一個孩子在面對語言障礙和移民的成長經歷。當羅尼與家人一起到新的國家時，他很期待能交到新朋友。但在幼兒園裡，當他向大家介紹自己時，他的話讓其他孩子不禁笑了起來。羅尼既困惑又尷尬，他很想念家鄉與朋友們。不過漸漸地環境也開始變得不那麼陌生了⋯⋯。本書由保加利亞作家兼插畫家Vyara Boyadjieva撰寫，故事真實感人，最終羅尼會發現，善良和笑聲是不分國界的。 A beautiful, moving and sensitively told picture book about language barriers, communication and a very young child’s immigrant experience.When Ronnie moves to a new house, in a new country, he’s excited to make friends. But when he introduces himself to everyone at nursery – “My name is four. I am Ronnie years old.” – the other children can’t help but giggle. His words are all mixed up! Ronnie misses home and laughing with his old friends. But new doesn't stay that way for long... This authorial debut from Bulgarian author-illustrator Vyara Boyadjieva is honest and uplifting, with Ronnie ultimately discovering that kindness, and laughter, are universal.
This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes 'My Country Right or Left', 'Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an
‘I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old, and I don’t yet know that I am stat
We are moving to a new home, where the lakes freeze in winter. I am visiting my Grandma to say goodbye. The little girl in this story is moving with her parents to a new, colder country very far away.
This book offers a glimpse into the wide-ranging 50-year career of the internationally renowned Hong Kong photographer/designer through his work in collages and photomontages. From his early album covers when he was an art director/designer for the music industry in New York, Los Angeles and London in the 1970’s, through his diverse international assignments and personal works, to his most recent exhibition in Hong Kong. The story encompasses the long journey from cut-and-paste collages to the computer-composited photomontages of dreamscapes in this Carnival of Dreams.In his introduction titled ‘The Man from Everywhere’, Pico Iyer writes: “For decades now, Basil Pao has been the global eye through which I’ve taken in almost every country, as clearly as the world within… I never know where to place Basil; I can’t get my head around him. Album-designer, loving father, covert Chan master—21st century Renaissance man—Basil is always bringing the many worlds inside him together to create so
An introduction to one of the world's oldest civilizations. Covers everything from this country's ancient history under the ruling pharaohs to the customs and traditions of its people today. Egypt's w
