Art Through Childrens Literature: Creative Art Lessons for Caldecott Books
The award-winning illustrations of 57 Caldecott Books (1938-1994) have inspired a multitude of lessons that guide students in creating art with similar qualities. Focusing on such principles and elements as line, color, texture, shape, value, and space, these classroom-tested projects have step-by-step instructions, materials lists, and detailed illustrations for teachers who have little or no art training. Various art media are explored, including pencil, crayon, marker, colored pencil, chalk, stencils, collage, watercolor, tempera, color mixing, and printmaking. These projects use limited materials so they're great for the classroom as well as the art room.
In the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club, J.R. Moehringer’s The Tender Bar is a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar. A national bestseller that was named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2005 by the New York Times, The Tender Bar will reach an even larger audience in paperback.
Einsteins Theory: A Rigorous Introduction for the Mathematically Untrained
This book provides an introduction to the theory of relativity and the mathematics used in its processes. Three elements of the book make it stand apart from previously published books on the theory of relativity. First, the book starts at a lower mathematical level than standard books with tensor calculus of sufficient maturity to make it possible to give detailed calculations of relativistic predictions of practical experiments.
Barbara Sheen is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Barbara Sheen include Derek Jeter (People in the News), Pope Benedict XVI (People in the News), Allergies (Diseases and Disorders), and Tony Hawk (People in the News).
Rocks and Minerals - A Guide to Minerals, Gems, and Rocks
A guide to identifying rocks and minerals, and an explanation of their importance in our daily lives. Lavishly illustrated and clearly written, the Golden Guides were the most popular and revered series of science and nature books for young people ever published, inspiring many a future scientist.
