Husband and wife team Stephanie and Tom LaBaff explore outer space in DRAW ALIENS AND SPACE OBJECTS IN 4 EASY STEPS. Discover how to draw different astronauts, aliens, vehicles, and space objects. Once your artwork is complete, write a story using the prompts in the book, or make up your own!
For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory. Readers will be drawn into the winding streets of London, where they will learn how Dickens got the inspiration for many of his characters. The 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth was February 7, 2012, and this tale of his little-known boyhood is the perfect way to introduce kids to the great author. This Booklist Best Children's Book of the Year is historical fiction at its ingenious best.
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
The Story of Alice reveals Carroll as both an innovator and stodgy traditionalist, entrenched in habits and routines. He had a keen double interest in keeping things moving and keeping them just as they are (in Looking-Glass Land, Alice must run faster and faster to stay in one place).
George Washington is the human story of a man who turned an impoverished childhood and the frequent humiliations at the hands of a mother he feared and the British generals he admired into a career of rebellion and creation. When he had worn out and nearly bankrupted his allies, Washington disbanded the victorious army he had forged, giving life to democratic government. George III once said that if Washington could give up power, he would be the greatest man of the eighteenth century. And Washington did. Twice. Here, from award-winning historian Willard Sterne Randall, is the human story of America's Founding Father.
American History Magazine from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the celebration of 224 years of glorious freedom, American History explores and examines the changing times and growing history of the United States. In-depth articles and engaging essays from top historians and journalists give readers a complete overview of a never-ending story: the story of America.
