Welcome to the United States of America! The U.S.A. is the third largest country in the world, and one of the most beautiful. It is full of lakes and rivers, mountains and canyons, beaches and deserts. It has many different trees and flowers, and all sorts of different crops grown for use as food. And, of course, America has birds and animals of all kinds. Last, but not least, the United States has over 300 million people, from many different backgrounds and cultures. -- In this book you'll meet five adventurous friends, Wandering Willy, Nosy Normie, Meandering Mickey, Sightseeing Susie, and Exploring Ellie. Together, they will help you learn about the land, cities, animals, and other wonderful things in each of the fifty states in the U.S.A. Along the way, you'll also meet fifty other friends of theirs, each who will host one of the five friends and teach them (and you!) about his or her state. These fifty friends are very special! They are each named after the capital city of their state. -- Friends and Mates in Fifty States is a mnemonic-filled learning/teaching tool geared first and foremost toward helping children learn state capitals and locations in a fun and entertaining way. Additional facts, including state symbols and products and the origin of state nicknames, are also provided to enrich the child's learning experience. - Readers' Favorite Review: Completed on: 03/17/2016 Review Rating: 5 stars! Reviewed By Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite Friends and Mates in Fifty States by Ellen Weisberg and Ken Yoffe gives an insight into the different states of the United States of America through the eyes of five friends; Wandering Willy, Sightseeing Susie, Nosy Normie, Meandering Mickey, and Exploring Ellie. Together with them, readers learn about the land, culture, and essence of each one of the different states, its importance, and what makes it different from the other states. The United States is full of beaches, deserts, lakes, rivers, canyons, and mountains, and each state is introduced to readers with the help of rhyming verses. These five boys and girls meet their friends and mates while traveling to these states. So sit back and enjoy the trip with these five friends and discover new places! The book is fascinating, a must-have for all school and public libraries. There is a wealth of information for young readers that teaches them more about new places and destinations in a simple and easy way. The pictures are not only bright and colorful, but insightful too, and they make the rhyming verses more enjoyable to read and understand. It's a good bedtime storybook and helps to teach kids about new places in a fun and interactive way. Books like this are perfect to make the process of learning fun and enjoyable for children. The book gives just enough information, and the entire presentation and layout makes it very appealing and catchy to readers. I really like the concept and thought that has gone behind the book in making kids familiar with the states of America.

Friends and Mates in Fifty States

Children's Books

Weisberg, Ellen

Arts, Music & Photography

Waldorf Publishing

Making Emmie Smile

Making Emmie Smile is a child development book geared for toddlers. In Making Emmie Smile, family members attempt to make the child happy by offering her different material things, only to succeed in getting the child to smile by offering personal attention. The basic theme of Making Emmie Smile is the importance of fulfilling your child's emotional needs.

Parenting & Relationships

Yoffe, Ken

Parenting

A level 2 reader that describes Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, one of the first inventors of the microscope. The reader provides biographical information and also discusses his findings. Enjoy this Waldorf Reader.

What are Microscopes?

A level 2 reader that takes children on a walking journey through the three types of wetlands. The description of each wetland helps children become acquainted with the physical differences between them.

Bogs, Swamps, Marshes

In Gathering Roses, introverted and studious Lori Solomon meets nonconformist Grateful Dead follower, Nick Warren, and soon finds herself on a seemingly endless carnival ride with him. Although not always apparent to Lori, it is Nick's precarious health condition that seems to underlie his outlook on life, influencing what he expects to get out of it as well as what he feels he needs to put into it. Lori's quirky, roller coaster relationships with cynical, substance-abusing Rutherford Gimby and borderline, melodramatic Angela Allen season the stew, their faults and vices mirroring Lori's own shortcomings. The main characters in Gathering Roses share in common a neediness/dependency on something outside of themselves that they all lean toward to fill an agonizing emptiness. For Lori and Angela, low self-esteem and a poor self-image attract each to challenging and walled-off souls like Nick and Rutherford. For the men, sex, alcohol, and drugs color their past and present, keeping the barriers surrounding them erected high and impervious to real emotional attachment.Gathering Roses is a story written from the heart. Geared toward a young, female audience, it is a tale that is meant to be not just entertaining, but also thought-provoking.Book Extract Lori's internship at the radio station continued. She was assigned to start working some of her weekend shifts apart from Nick, and instead alongside a young woman named Helga. Like Lori, Helga had limited experience in radio and was training as she worked on the job. The conversations Lori had with her were short and focused only on the tasks at hand, which made for a very different atmosphere than the one Lori had grown accustomed to working alongside Nick. It also made for an atmosphere that she didn't enjoy nearly as much. It was the evening after a long day of battling stream after stream of whiny complaints from Prima Donna talk show hosts, while taking care to press all the right buttons and shift levers in a timely fashion. Lori settled comfortably in her seat and looked over at Helga, ready to reflect on what she thought was a decent day's work, when the control room door opened. A frazzled, bearded black man stood a few feet away from the girls, pinching an inkless pen tightly between his thumb and forefinger. He tossed the pen angrily into a nearby garbage can. ----

Gathering Roses

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Chipmunkapublishing

As part of an exciting new children's geography series, ALL ACROSS CHINA, provides a tour of China's 34 provinces, municipalities, and other regions. Using the mnemonic devices of clever rhymes and naming characters after the provincial capitals, ALL ACROSS CHINA also includes endless fun facts and charming artwork to answer such questions as: --Where are the Terracotta Warriors? --What do they mean by Sichuan, Hunan, and Cantonese food? --Where can one see the Great Wall of China? --What do Xi, Dong, Bei, and Nan mean? -- China is the world's fourth largest country and, with over a billion people, has the largest population. It is full of breathtaking mountains and rivers, fascinating animals and crops, and many different cultures and languages. Join Cai, Na, Ning, Song, and dozens of their friends on a trip ALL ACROSS CHINA!-- ALL ACROSS CHINA is a mnemonic-filled learning/teaching tool geared first and foremost toward helping children learn capitals and locations of Chinese provinces and territories in a fun and entertaining way. Additional facts are also provided to enrich the child's learning experience.--5 stars! Reviewed By Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite: "All school and public libraries should havea copy of this book as it can be used as a reference guide too. These kinds ofbooks will encourage young readers to explore new destinations and travel tovarious places. It also captures the diversity of the country." --Selected testimonials-- currclick.com All Across China by Lisa M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/27/2015 15:17:12 This is a very fun way to learn about the geography of China. I would read a page, and my daughter (10 years old) would read the poem on the next page. It's very colorful and simple. I like how it's a story of a girl that goes all over China and meets her friends. Very creative! Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] I have to tell you - I LOVED that book!! I added it to the library, but it took everything in me!! I SO wanted to keep a copy for our daughters! What a wonderful treasure - I plan to blog on it this week! :) Thank you SO much - I hate to even accept another copy but we would SO cherish that. -IA, USA library-Ellen -I love your book, which I received recently - thanks. I can now add my own personal review in my newsletter to our CHina families and will strongly recommend it. I can see it appealing to children of many ages, with its combination of fun pictures and interesting facts. -World Child China Program Specialist, IA-Hi Ellen, Thank you for the books. They are great. -MS, USA library Hello Ellen, Got the books yesterday, they are really neat and i am excited to be adding them to our collection. We greatly appreciate your generosity -PA, USA library Hi Ellen We just received the copy of All across China which you so kindly donated to our library, along with the second copy of All across Canada. Thank you so much for your generous donation. We love the way the information is presented and look forward to reading it through. -ON, Canada library Hi Ellen, Thank you for the books -they arrived in the post today. All across China is very informative and simply presented which will appeal to quite a large age range. The format in all the books is nice and easy for children and parents to use. Well done! -WI, USA library-Ellen, Thank you for the books you sent. It was interesting to read about our daughter's birth place, Kunming (Yunnan Province).We hope to visit the Stone Forest when we travel back there for a heritage tour. After thumbing through the "all Across Canada" book and finding a few interesting details that I didn't know, I plan on reading that one to my son and daughter too. Anyway, thanks again. -FCC member

All Across China

Travel

Asia

MAKING EMMIE SMILE is a child development book geared for toddlers. In MAKING EMMIE SMILE, family members attempt to make the child happy by offering her different material things, only to succeed in getting the child to smile by offering personal attention. The basic theme of MAKING EMMIE SMILE is the importance of fulfilling your child's emotional needs.-Making Emmie Smileby Ellen Weisberg,Ken Yoffe5/5 star reviewReviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' FavoriteMaking Emmie Smile by Ellen Weisberg and Ken Yoffe is a cute little story about Emmie who wouldn't smile as a child. Aunt Janie tried gathering some beautiful flowers, but that did not make Emmie smile. Great-Grandma Mae also tried her bit by giving Emmie delicious food. Emmie still did not smile. As Emmie grew up, she still wouldn't smile. Then Nana Sheila came up with an idea. Why not tickle Emmie? That worked and Emmie started smiling. And that smile lasted and lasted. The book conveys a beautiful message how simple things in life can bring a smile to a person's face instead of material things.A smile is a very important thing in anyone's life and this story shows how sometimes we overlook simple things which we can afford to give people. The concept is excellent and it's a good story for read aloud sessions in classrooms and school libraries. It's also a good bedtime storybook and parents and grandparents can read it out to their kids and grandkids. The illustrations are simple and lively, and they convey the author's concept and message with clarity.-Authors Ellen Weisberg and Ken Yoffe have also written and illustrated a series of children's geography books, including FRIENDS AND MATES IN FIFTY STATES, ALL ACROSS CANADA, ALL ACROSS CHINA, and ALL ACROSS EUROPE. In addition, they have written and illustrated FRUIT OF THE VINE, a children's fantasy based on the subject of bullying and the importance of altruism and peer involvement as a way to prevent it, and coauthored ANGEL ROCK LEAP, an anti-bullying NA novel, the central theme of which is about how hurting people hurt people. Finally, Ellen is the author of GATHERING ROSES, a young adult novel focusing on interrelationships and the influences of the Internet and today's fast-paced society.

In Fruit of the Vine, we meet Justin, a sensitive, introspective boy whose physical features and personality make him a convenient target for many of his cruel peers. One night, he wakes to find himself on a mysterious island, which is inhabited by a horde of bizarre creatures. Despite his desperation to find out where he is and, more importantly, how to get home, he becomes involved in the plight of Irvino, a beast who is ostracized on this island much in the way that Justin is in his own world. The story ends with a twist as Justin, in helping Irvino, ends up helping himself by making a lifelong friend out of Irvino. In essence, the protagonist of Fruit of the Vine saves himself by saving his savior, but not in typical fashion. Fruit of the Vine is unique from other books in the fantasy genre in that it is meant not only for the grade school-aged fantasy reader, but also for anyone interested in the topic of bullies, and how altruistic qualities can develop in children.

Fruit of the Vine

Arts & Photography

Description ALL ACROSS EUROPE helps children learn about the countries, people, animals, and landscapes of modern Europe. As with the other books in the series, this book uses artwork and poems to make geography fun, with cartoon characters named after the capital of each country as a learning device. It also helps to explain and simplify a continent with many new countries, often confusing borders, and a rich, varied culture.- ALL ACROSS EUROPE is a mnemonic-filled learning/teaching tool geared first and foremost toward helping children learn capitals and locations of European countries in a fun and entertaining way. Additional facts, including agricultural and industrial products, are also provided to enrich the child's learning experience. -All Across Europeby Ellen Weisberg, Ken Yoffe Children -Educational 106 Pages Reviewed on 03/17/2016 Book ReviewReview Rating:5 stars! Reviewed By Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite All Across Europe by Ellen Weisberg and Ken Yoffe is a fascinating,informative, and educational book for children that takes them on a joy ride to the beautiful continent of Europe. The book gives in-depth details about the continent through the eyes of five friends; Mickey, Tricia, Stevie, Ernie, and Wendy. Each one of them takes readers through the different regions of Europe where around 800 million people from diverse backgrounds live. Readers get to know about the impressive structures in the different regions of the continent,the history, the food, culture, the weather, and landscape that make Europe what it is. The book gives readers necessary and useful information about places in Europe.Coupled with verses and interesting illustrations, the book reaches out to children who want to know more about the fascinating places in Europe. It's definitely a splendid journey with these five friends as readers explore this incredible continent. I would recommend this book to all school and public libraries as it works as a good reference guide. It can also be used for bedtime story-telling.The introduction to the places is simple and easy for children to understand and remember. Books like this are welcome as they make learning and teaching attractive and fun. These kinds of stories are the best way children can be taught and also infuse in them a liking for traveling and exploring new destinations. What a charming and fascinating way to tell children all about the continent of Europe!

All Across Europe

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Angel Rock Leap

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Independently published

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Friends and Mates in Fifty States

Making Emmie Smile

What are Microscopes?

Bogs, Swamps, Marshes

Gathering Roses

All Across China

Making Emmie Smile

Fruit of the Vine

All Across Europe

Angel Rock Leap