100 card games, solitaries, and magic tricks are described in simple terms with learning skills for every game. A clinical psychologist, the author has worked with children with special needs for 30 years. She uses cards to identify learning problems and works with parents and teachers to help learners overcome their particular challenges.

The essays collected here span 20 years of Courtney Cazden's research on written language and its acquisition.

Using words, rhyme and picture clues, you are the detective as you solve amazing problems. Sound-alike words, rhyming words, different words created from the same letters, words that sound alike but are spelled differently -- they're all here and many more. These brilliant world puzzles and picture clues are fun to solve on your own, with your friends, or the whole family.

Card games are great fun--and learning new games can magically enhance kids' skills! To play a game, children must master rules, develop mental strategies to compete successfully, understand the objectives, evaluate their own (and their opponents') strengths and weaknesses, learn routine procedures and probabilities, keep track of the goings-on, and make long-range plans. Plus, games force them to respond quickly and to deal socially with others. Try out activities that stress language skills and reading, number concepts, and divergent thinking.

This superb collection of more than 50 word games and activities is designed to help children develop language, reading, spelling, thinking skills, and more. It includes rhyming, alphabet, and grammar games; secret languages; mnemonics; and games to help children discover their own strengths.

Too many cooks almost spoil the broth when hunted a sadistic serial-killer in Cuba in 1957. Jonas Forbes rubs shoulders with Batista’ Security Battalion as well as Marxists He’s helped and hindered by two senoritas and the occupants of two Embassies. Does anybody really want to catch the killer?