Joan Jacobs is a wise and experienced grandma. She wants grandmothers everywhere to love what they do and to grow in faith. She brings her theological training, life experience, good humor, and imagination together in an inspiring reflection on one of life's greatest opportunities--being a grandma. Jacobs explores the grandmother/grandchild relationship, showing grandmothers how to offer practical guidance and spiritual wisdom in a way that encourages the development of their grandchildren.

This book introduces the reader to a wide variety of games that were played in America from the beginning of European immigration into the nineteenth century. Americans were indeed a game-playing bunch during the country's formative years.

Ordinary games are an important vehicle for children's learning. They provide a powerful, naturally occurring learning environment that is physical, playful and fun. Playing games requires interpersonal skills in language, thought, social behavior, creativity, self-regulation and skilful use of the body. When children play games together they develop the following key capacities: •Cooperative behavior •Focused attention •Social understanding •Holding information in mind •Motor, spatial and sequential planning •Self-regulation, e.g impulse control, coping with excitement, controlled exertion •Collaborative behavior and negotiation •Self-expression and creativity. Games provide a social experience that is emotionally compelling, where children laugh and have fun and do not realise they are interacting, problem solving, negotiating and cooperating with each other. Play Better Games is designed to help practitioners and parents to think about what might prohibit their children from joining in with games and plan effective strategies for support. It will be of benefit to teachers, therapists, group works, play workers, midday supervisors and support workers, as well as to parents and siblings of children with autism.

The second book in the super-funny classic series The Bagthorpe Saga, starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family – from best-loved author Helen Cresswell.

For the first time, Kaleigh is playing on an all-girls hockey team. Never a "girlygirl," she misses her former teammates, has trouble following the different rules of girls' hockey, and gets frustrated when her fellow players get distracted from their game. That is, until Shane comes along. Soon the attention of this older boy is taking up too much of her time, and Kaleigh finds herself unsure whether she can balance hockey, her friendships, and this new dating-life. [Fry Reading Level - 3.4

Discover the perfect children's book for learning your first words. Designed around the most up-to-date theories of language acquisition, Learning English for Kids includes all the words English learners need to know. An ideal selection of first word books for parents and teachers who want to encourage second language acquisition. Children's book: Learn English Kindergarten and primary school First words Learn to speak Education for children

"Bubsimouse on the playground" is a short children's book for children aged 2-6 years. Bubsimouse takes his friends to the playground. They rock, laugh and climb. A lovingly written children's book.

The "Cat Coco Good Night Children's Book" is a cute children's story with colourful illustrations for children aged 2-8. The book is perfect for reading aloud and as a sleeping aid. The picture book with child-friendly rhymes tells about how Cat Coco says "Good night" to the forest animals. Perfect as: Bedtime Story Picture book for children Rhyme book for children

Ashton meets and learns about a brash, arrogant, and very noisy bird living in a nearby saguaro cactus on his grandparent's acreage in Arizona. He finds other saguaros on the property with holes and birds nesting in them, but what makes these holes in the tough cactus?

The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players. Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from. Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a 'working description' of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player.