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Rome Antics
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1997
Great pictures, simple story, must-have for Rome fans
This book is a trip through Roma from a pigeon's point of view. The pigeon flies around, through, over and past many of Rome's historical landmarks, and a brief section in back describes their history and significance. I checked this out of the library to read with my ...
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Animal Antics: Now I'm Reading! (Level 1)
Nora Gaydos, BB Sams
Innovative Kids, 2001
Fundamental Phonics in a Fun Friendly Format
It is so hard these days to find interesting books that focus on phonics AND child confidence that don't have an overwhelming number of undecodable words. This book is a treasure if you are looking for a program focusing on beginning phonics (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) ...
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Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems
Judy Sierra
Sandpiper, 2003
Poems About Penguins.
First of all, I love this book because I love penguins. However, as a piece of children's literature, it's so much more. This is an excellent example of how literature (poetry) and science can go hand and hand. There are some poems in this book that seem written just ...
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An Antic Disposition: A Medieval Mystery (Fools' Guild Mysteries)
Alan Gordon
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004
A winner
In 1204 AD, Pope Innocent III declares the Fools' Guild as the most dangerous enemy that the Christian hierarchy faces, even more perilous than the Saracens, due to their subversive mockery of church hypocrisy. He sends an army of God to devastate the guild. Though ...
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Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning
Sol Steinmetz
Random House Reference, 2008
Words To Live By
Who would have thought words like "nice" and "pretty" meant something completely different hundreds of years ago or that "satellite" referred to a bodyguard? In this extraordinary yet compact book, "Semantic Antics", Sol Steinmetz reviews dozens of words and how they ...
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Now I'm Reading!: Animal Antics - Level 1 (Now I'm Reading)
Nora Gaydos
Innovative Kids, 2001
Perfect for young readers!
I bought this for my 4 yr old after having used the first two sets of Bob Books (scholastic). Now I'm Reading!: Amazing Animals is an excellent next step! Amazing Animals introduces long vowel sounds and vowel pairs (digraphs) in managable chunks.
This set is ...
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Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley
Dalkey Archive Press, 2007
rather good
criticisms of this book as being plotless or "a novel of ideas" make little sense to me. so far as i know great art is often unconventional, and i personally found this to be a very intelligent and entertaining meditation on society and human nature wrapped in precise, ...
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Now I'm Reading!: Animal Antics - Volume 2 (Now I'm Reading!)
Nora Gaydos
Innovative Kids, 2006
great for struggling readers
This series helped my daughter tremendously as she struggled with phonics and beginning reading. It is the only product I found that really made a difference.
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The Yorkie Diaries: Inner Thoughts, Secret Antics & True Confessions
Melissa Sovey
Willow Creek Press, 2008
Go Yorkies, Go!
If you have ever owned a Yorkie, or even know a Yorkie (or someone that does) you must get this book. It is an adorable account of the day to day life of different Yorkies. The pictures (one with every diary entry) are adorable and the writing definately fits their ...
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Jeremy Fish: Rome-antic Delusions
Evan Pricco, David Choe Bellagio, ...
Drago, 2008
San Francisco illustrator and skate culture icon Jeremy Fish created most of the paintings, drawings and screen prints presented in Rome-antic Delusions --part of Drago's 36 Chambers series--while living in Rome, in symbiosis with the city. Fish describes the book as a "word play where reality and fantasy meet."
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Artful Antics: A Book of Art, Music, And Theater Jokes (Read-It! Joke Books) (Read-It! Joke Books)
Jill L. Donahue
Picture Window Books, 2006
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Antics! (Paperstar)
Cathi Hepworth
Putnam Juvenile, 1996
Creative! Original!
This is one of the most creative books I've seen in a long time. The illustrations are also warm and funny. The simple single alphabet words are hysterical and orginal. My personal favorites are the mad scientist ant who is brilliANT, the punk rocker who is a ...
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Why the West Was Wild: A Contemporary Look at the Antics of Some Highly Publicized Kansas Cowtown ...
Nyle H. Miller, Joseph W. Snell
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003
A must have for the western buff
This is without a doubt one of my favourite books on the West. It contains biographies of 57 Kansas cowtown personalities, ranging in length from half a page to 130-odd pages (about Bat Masterson). Since the authors quote generously from contemporary newspapers and ...
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Acting Antics: A Theatrical Approach to Teaching Social Understanding to Kids and Teens with Asperger Syndrome
Cindy B. Schneider
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007
Good beginning overview
Acting Antics is a good beginning overview of how drama can be used with students on the ASD spectrum. It is written in a very user-friendly manner so it will be accessible to anyone who is familiar with theatre, but not with ASD and accessible to anyone who is ...
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Dr. Seuss's Animal Antics (Dr Seuss)
Dr. Seuss
HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, 2006
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