Child Education

Kids love to celebrate the 100th Day of School! Some elementary school students make crafts, play games, or eat treats to mark the holiday. Others have a dress-up day or hold counting contests.

What does a state governor do? Learn about the duties of a state governor, who can be a state governor, where they work, and how state governors are elected.

What is an election? Learn about elections and why it is important that people vote. Descriptive main text, fast facts, and callout definitions work together to support understanding.

Teachers help students become excellent learners and wonderful adults. Listeners will find out the different types of roles teachers have, the tools they use, and how people get this rewarding and difficult job.

Jack and Annie are whisked 40 years forward in time and land at an international space station on the moon. There they don space suits and go exploring the lunar surface in search of the fourth object needed to free the enchantress Morgan le Fay from a powerful spell.

If you want to write a children's book, then download How to Write a Children's Book by a person with real life experience and knowledge of this topic. If you have ever wanted to write a true children's classic, then you must dive into a child's mind to see what makes them tick. Within this guide, all your questions will be expertly answered in a way that is simple and easy to understand.

This book offers a guide to key words and phrases in the Wolof language as spoken in Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, and part of the Niger-Congo African language family. The course is split into 28 daily sessions with concluding review material. It is targeted at young learners with a focus on key phrases that can be immediately put to use and uses games, music, sound effects, and activities to keep listeners engaged. This is an ideal way for your child to build an understanding of the Wolof language.

Grow your vocabulary & improve your French skills with these 10 engaging French short stories! There are so many reasons to learn a new language. The best way to learn a new language is by building a strong base of vocabulary. In this French audiobook you will find yourself glued to every single section of each captivating story that will keep you so engaged you’ll basically forget you’re even learning French!

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle.

Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and expanding the local black YMCA, but she couldn't have done that if she weren't the first female self-made millionaire and one of the most successful African American business owners ever. Born Sarah Breedlove, she was the first person born free in her family. She married Charles Joseph Walker and became known as Madam C. J. Walker, the name she would later use on her haircare products.

Born in 1800, William Holmes McGuffey had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could commit to mind entire books of the Bible. After becoming a teacher at the age of 14, classroom size was just one of several challenges faced by McGuffey. In many one-teacher schools, students - ages varied from six to twenty-one, and few textbooks existed. In 1835, a publishing firm asked McGuffey to create a series of graded Readers for primary level students. The series consisted of stories, poems, essays and speeches and it is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960.

Learning about the Bible is more fun and engaging than ever! The best-selling Read with Me Bible, NIrV provides early listeners ages four-eight with 106 easy-to-relisten Bible stories from the Old and New Testaments. Children love it. Parents trust it. Easy to listen and easy to understand, the Read with Me Bible, NIrV will quickly become your child’s favorite Bible, as it has for thousands and thousands of other children. The Read with Me Bible, NIrV will instill a love of God’s Word in your child as they snuggle up and listen to it with you.

In 1952, April is seven years old and adores her big sister, Annabel. But Annabel is failing her math class and desperately needs help with a tough math problem. April decides to write to Albert Einstein, asking him to give a hand.

Farmer Hoggett wins a piglet at the fair. It should fatten up nicely. However Fly, the sheep-dog trains Babe, the piglet, to herd sheep, making Babe an indispensable sheep-pig.

We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we?

What does a city mayor do? Learn about the duties of a city mayor and how the mayor serves people in the city. Descriptive main text, fast facts, and callout definitions work together to support understanding.

When election season starts, the race is on! But what do campaigns, candidates, polls, and the Electoral College have to do with voting for our nation's leaders?

Zoos are busy places filled with animals and the visitors who love them. Who are the people who keep zoos running? From vets to performers to groundskeepers, many people work together to serve the needs of a zoo. Learn about their important work in this book from the Wonderful Workplaces series.

Hospitals are busy places filled with sick and injured people and their caregivers. Who are the people who keep hospitals running? From schedulers to doctors and nurses to IT staff, many people work together to serve the needs of a hospital. Learn about their important work in this book from the Wonderful Workplaces series.