Beyond the Field
"Beyond the Field" by Shon Baylock is an essential resource for athletes who aspire to succeed both in their sporting careers and in life beyond athletics. This comprehensive guide is designed to empower athletes and their families to take control of their recruiting journey, providing them with the tools and knowledge necessary to bridge the gap between their skills on the field and their potential in the real world.The book is structured around a holistic development program that encompasses all aspects of an athlete's journey, from understanding eligibility requirements to mastering social media management and developing crucial life skills.KEY FEATURES: Eligibility and Academic Support: Guidance on eligibility requirements.Strategies for maintaining academic performance, including study sessions and goal-setting activities.Navigating the Recruitment Process: Recruiting Guidance: Insights into the recruitment process, including critical questions to ask, dates and how to choose the best schools for academic and athletic goals.Camps and Preparation: Advice on identifying beneficial camps and preparing effectively for them.Coach Preferences: What coaches look for in recruits and tips for showcasing strengths.Social Media Management: Strategies for building a positive online image and handling negative feedback.Life Skills and Career Preparation: Importance of career planning and exploration.Importance of improving communication, teamwork, leadership, and time management.Interview Skills and Professional EtiquetteUsing the overall skills from the recruiting journey and apply to real world
Italy, Recipes, Flavors, & Traditions
The main meal in Italy is lunch, called pranzo. It usually lasts two hours, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., and often consists of multiple courses: a primo (pasta, soup, or a risotto dish), a secondo, an entr矇e with a contorno (side dish), and a tasty sweet. There are recipes for every occasion: breakfast, small plates, sides & snacks, entr矇es, and desserts. Some of the delicious recipes include Lemon Ricotta Muffins, Antipasto Skewers, Italian Wedding Soup, Caprese Pizza, Homemade Pasta, Cherry Gelato, and Tiramisu. Learn about the history and traditions of Italy, including Carnavale and the celebrated Italian artist Michelangelo. Kids in the Kitchen cooking tips are included to ensure that safety and fun are part of your culinary journey. The cookbook also provides measurement conversions and 35 step-by-step delicious recipes with full-color photography that illustrates how each completed recipe should look. This book is part of the Culinary Passport Series; when you complete a flagged recipe, place the corresponding sticker in your culinary passport or mark the recipe to track your success and journey around the world through food.
A Little Slugger’s Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Baseball and Life
From The Sandlot actor and die-hard baseball fan Patrick Renna comes practical advice full of wit and humor about baseball (and life)--complete with a customizable dedication page for a very special slugger. With over a dozen "unwritten" rules about baseball and the game of life, this is a must-have for any baseball fan. Featuring anecdotes from Patrick Renna's experience playing The Sandlot character Hamilton Porter, this little slugger's guide encourages readers young and old to "keep swinging" and "find a glove that fits" so that they can hit home runs on and off the field. Full of witty quips, wisdom, and stories about unforgettable moments throughout baseball history, this gift book is sure to be a favorite for all fans of America's greatest pastime!
My First Busy Home: Let's Look and Learn!
This busy board book encourages hands-on fun for your toddler as they learn about noises, colors, and objects in the busy home! Introducing My First Busy Home, an adorable tabbed board book for babies aged 0-3 featuring a busy home for them to explore. This engaging board book is packed with bright and colorful pictures to get your little ones thinking and talking. Clear labels accompany the objects for babies to sound out the words with you, while questions encourage children to learn and play. This busy board book for babies offers: 13 picture tabs allowing little hands to easily turn each page to a different scene.A sturdy and chunky board book with safe rounded tabs, thoroughly tested for babies and toddlers.Easy-to-read text with names and descriptions to encourage language development in 0-3 year olds.My First Busy Home is an engaging first words book that contains exciting picture tabs and fun questions that encourage little ones to spot things around the home. This interactive book is perfect for sharing and helps children develop speaking, listening, and observation skills. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So why stop here? There's so much more to explore and love with DK's My First series. Discover new topics, people, and places to keep babies entertained time and time again. Discover all the colors of the rainbow with My First Colors, meet playful puppies and cuddly kittens with My First Animals, go out and explore with My First Busy Town, and have a fabulous time on the farm with My First Farm.
Keep It Clean!
This entertaining graphic novel from award winner Don Brown will get kids talking, since it's all about the history of dealing with poop, pee, and dirty hands. Part of the Big Ideas That Changed the World graphic novel series, this full-color book is appropriate for the classroom and includes a timeline, endnotes, and a bibliography. In 1895, an engineer named George Waring was appointed New York City's first commissioner of street cleaning. His task? To make a city with millions of people livable. Narrated by Waring, Keep It Clean! explores the concept of public health, which means ensuring clean water and adequate sewage disposal for everyone, and covers topics such as personal hygiene, sewer systems, and chemical water treatment. Acclaimed author-illustrator Don Brown takes readers on a journey through history and around the world, from Greek, Roman, and Aztec aqueducts and the dawn of bathing (including social public bathing in Japan and religious bathing ceremonies in Machu Picchu) to the invention of soap in the Middle East, the first use of flush toilets approximately 4,000 years ago, and the first toilets used in outer space--a Big Idea when you consider that early astronauts on Apollo 11 had none! Full of facts and colorful historical figures, Brown chronicles both historical mishaps--like rivers full of human waste and King Henry VI's notorious basement of poop--and monumental scientific breakthroughs including Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch's discovery of the link between microbes (germs) and disease. Brown also highlights how social classes became divided not only by wealth and culture but also by smell, and calls attention to modern-day health crises. Today, nearly two billion people around the world live without clean water and about 3.6 billion people--nearly half of the world's population--live without proper sanitation. Breaking down concepts in an accessible, kid-friendly way, this nonfiction graphic novel shows why "keeping it clean" is vitally important whether it's a city, town, home, or person. Big Ideas That Changed the World is a graphic novel series that celebrates the hard-won succession of ideas that ultimately changed the world. Humor, drama, and art unite to tell the story of events, discoveries, and ingenuity over time that led humans to come up with a big idea and then make it come true. More from the Big Ideas That Changed the World series: Rocket to the Moon! (#1) Machines That Think! (#2) A Shot in the Arm! (#3) We the People! (#4) All Charged Up! (#5) It's About Time! (#6)
M Is for Mason Jar
An ABC picture book for modern homesteaders A is for attic and armfuls of aprons our aunties once made. B is for baking the batter for buttermilk biscuits. Yum! Children are an essential part of any homestead. From canning creamed corn and cucumbers to scattering seeds in the soil, explore a fun modern-day homesteading activity for every letter of the alphabet, just for young homesteaders. With alliterative text by Carloyn Bennett Fraiser and sweet illustrations by Sally Garland, M Is for Mason Jar is a mix of nostalgia and modernism. Whether in the country or the city, the time-honored practices of the homestead will encourage kids to be more self-reliant and to be thankful for the bounty of the earth and the work of their hands. Includes one page of backmatter to help kids get involved in homesteading activities.
Peachy's Big Move
A new home is exciting... but it can also be scary. Help your child prepare for the big day by introducing them to this delightful purring furball.Moving can be stressful for children... and for kitties! What helps is being prepared-and while there isn't a lot you can do to prepare your pets for what's coming, you can do something to ease your child's mind in advance of your move... and Peachy's here to help. This delightful storybook follows a day in the life of Peachy, a curious calico cat who likes to know what's going on at all times.But it's moving day for her family, and she doesn't know what's going on at all. Where's her favorite pink bowl? Where's her fluffy rug? Where are all her toys? Peachy is on a mission to investigate... and she's about to learn that home is always where her family is... no matter where that is. This warm and engaging story will captivate your child's imagination and give you an easy icebreaker to help you start the conversation about moving homes.Whether you have a child of your own to prepare for the big move or you're a realtor who wants to help families once they've bought a new house, Peachy is here to make the conversation easier.With a lighthearted story and the sweetest main character, this heartwarming book will help you prepare your child for moving day and talk to them about their feelings... and it will bring you huge peace of mind in the process. Looking for an easy way to prepare your child for a big move? Then scroll up and click "Add to Cart" right now.
Seasons on the Farm
Throughout the year, life on a farm is filled with growth and joy, patience and renewal. On a farm, each season arrives with new jobs to do--crops to plant, animals to tend to, and fields to harvest. Readers get an insider's look at what spring, summer, fall, and winter look like on a family farm, from adorable baby animals to rumbling tractors and pumpkins to pies. This sweet, rhyming story is perfect for young readers, whether their home is on a farm or not!
The Big Book of Climbing
"An epic introduction to the wide world of mountaineering and climbing." --Pete McBride, Nat Geo Explorer and Adventurer of the Year BolognaRagazzi Awards 2024, Special Mention, Non-Fiction Rich in historical, practical, and naturalistic information, The Big Book of Climbing details basic concepts of this practice, which has gained great popularity in recent years. Who were the first people to reach the summits of the world's highest mountains? What materials did they use? Where are the tallest mountains located? When did sport climbing emerge? What is bouldering? From the rugged beauty of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park to the remote landscapes of Patagonia's Fitz Roy, the towering peaks of Everest in the Himalayas to Europe's iconic Mont Blanc, this large-format illustrated work explores the evolution, beauty, and history climbing. Brimming with incredible feats, stories of overcoming obstacles, and a wealth of information, The Big Book of Climbing includes information on how to ascend a peak in different seasons and with various types of climbs and covers important milestones and fundamental figures in the history of mountaineering.
Pedal Pusher
Annie Cohen Kopchovsky was ready to ride her bicycle.Not to the market.Not around the block.Not across town.Annie was going to ride her bike all theway around the world. In 1894, when two men bet that a woman could never bicycle around the world, as a man had done, Annie set out to prove them wrong, despite not knowing how to ride a bike. Dressed in a long skirt, she began her journey in Boston. It wasn't easy, but Annie never gave up. Her adventure brought her attention in every place she visited along the way, and she loved it all. She told many stories--about hunting tigers, dodging bullets, socializing with royalty, and serving time in a Japanese prison--and some of them were probably not true. But she did ride all the way around the world. And she changed the way that the world thought about what women were capable of doing. Filled with captivating illustrations of the incredible globe-spanning journey, this celebratory picture book tells the story of an unsung feminist icon, the marvelous and resilient Annie Cohen Kopchovsky.
Gogo Chakli by the Seashore - Gogo Chakli Saagar Kinaare (Full Colour)
This heartwarming tale follows Gogo Chakli, a curious little sparrow, on her very first beach adventure. Through her childlike wonder, we explore the sights, sounds, and sensations of a magical day by the shore. Watch as Gogo's playful mind fills with questions and ideas, capturing the innocence of childhood and the joy of discovery. Perfect for little readers and their families, this story is a celebration of exploration, imagination, and the simple beauty of spending time together.Snigdha is an Indian-born technologist living in California, juggling spreadsheets by day and bedtime stories by night. Inspired by her 3-year-old's endless "why" questions and her own passion for reading, she set off on a mission to write bilingual children's books-because one language wasn't challenging enough! After noticing a serious lack of fun, high-quality Hindi and Gujarati stories (and after running out of ways to say "go to bed"), she now crafts tales that spark curiosity, celebrate family, and encourage a much-needed break from screens. With each story, she invites parents and kids to rediscover the magic of reading-one word, rhyme, and giggle at a time.
Escaping Ukraine, Finding Hope
The 5th bilingual graphic memoir in the powerful series, "Our Stories Carried Us Here." Escaping Ukraine, Finding Hope tells the timely story of one family leaving their beloved homeland to start over in America. Once a teacher and devoted mother, Mila Mostova's days of teaching and gardening turn into nights of air sirens and explosions from war. As danger closes in, Mila makes a heartbreaking choice to leave Ukraine and protect her children at all costs. With the help of Sue, her former American host, Mila and her kids embark on a daring journey to Duluth, Minnesota. Starting over isn't easy, but Mila's determination never wavers. Her children embrace a new school and language, while Mila channels her strength into building a new life--helping others overcome challenges, just as she has. This bilingual book, written in Ukrainian and English, bursts to life with stunning illustrations by a Ukrainian newcomer. Perfect for classrooms and libraries, "Escaping Ukraine, Finding Hope" is a moving tale of survival, hope, and resilience. It captures the hardships of families displaced by war and the incredible power of kindness, community, and the human spirit.
Chef
Chefs make food for people; they are community helpers. They wear special uniforms and use different kinds of tools on their job. This book introduces readers to chefs, including what they do and who they help. Readers will see if they have the characteristics to be a chef someday. Accessible text allows beginning readers to explore this early career topic. Bright color photographs bring readers face to face with the helpers in their community!
Under Your Skin: True Tales of Forensic Science, Part 2
Have a love for all the intrigue of a good murder mystery? Do you have a special interest in science and the law? In this book, young readers can explore just what it takes to be a detective and solve crimes using forensics. Filled with historic photographs and microscopic images, this book is sure to draw in even the most reluctant reader. These stories show all the science, attention to detail, and teamwork it takes to solve mysterious crimes.
Eureka!: True Tales of Discovery, Part 2
Have an interest in exploring the skies or even outer space? Or are you more interested in discovering treasures right here on Earth? This book explores all that and more with a series of stories about remarkable finds. Reluctant readers will be drawn in by colorful illustrations of archaeologists digging in the earth and astronauts flying high in the cosmos. Each story is accompanied by historical photographs and fun facts sure to delight the most intrepid of young readers.
The New England Patriots
The New England Patriots have a long history filled with challenges and successes, including winning a record number of Super Bowls. This revised and updated book on the New England Patriots by Mark Stewart offers young fans a look into this powerhouse team in the NFL while including fun facts, team spotlights, and pictures of Patriots memorabilia. Photographs of Patriots players and coaches, past and present, will give readers insight into the history and significance of the team. Readers will love learning about the team spirit that the Patriots bring to the field.
The Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the most successful teams in NFL history, currently sharing the record for most Super Bowl wins. This revised and updated book on the Pittsburgh Steelers by Mark Stewart offers young fans a look into this powerhouse team in the NFL while including fun facts, team spotlights, and pictures of Steelers memorabilia. Photographs of Steelers players and coaches, past and present, will give readers insight into the history and significance of the team. Readers will love learning about the team spirit that the Steelers bring to the field.
Flag Football
Flag football is often a kid's first introduction to the sport of football. It's a fun and fast-action game that challenges players' skills and strategies. In this book, readers will learn about different positions, what skills they need to have, and how they can become a little champ in flag football. Bright color photographs and achievable text make this early elementary book an exciting dive into the world of flag football.
Soccer Stars, Stats, and Stories
Many of the youngest athletes start out on the soccer pitch and quickly get hooked by "the beautiful game." They soon want to know about the game's hottest stars and teams, past and present, male and female, and the legendary moments that had crowds roaring. This insightful and inviting volume has the must-know information that soccer fans demand and will want to share with family and friends. The dynamic design, including fascinating fact boxes and breathtaking action photographs, complements the exciting and accessible text.
Fruits and Vegetables
A colorful plate of food is a healthy plate of food--and much of that color should come from fruits and vegetables. This vibrant volume introduces young foodies to key food and nutrition concepts. They'll learn how some fruits and vegetables grow, why they're good for us, and how they can be prepared to bring out their tastiest features. While readers will likely have their favorite fruits and vegetables, the inviting text and stunning colorful photographs will inspire them to try new ones.
Meat and Fish
Meat and fish are a part of many people's healthy diets. They provide the human body with key nutrients, though some options are healthier than others. Readers of this beneficial book will find out about the different kinds of meat and fish that people eat and how they can be prepared as tasty dishes that provide good nutrition. Colorful photographs, fun fact boxes, and a beautiful design will attract readers, who will also appreciate the important science concepts found within the achievable, at-level text.
Milk and Dairy
Dairy comes in many forms that people crave. Milk, yogurt, and cheese are a few, but perhaps the most popular is ice cream! This carefully crafted book introduces readers to dairy as an important food group. The informative and at-level text describes where milk comes from and how milk and other products are prepared for safe and tasty human consumption. Key concepts are aided by a close picture-text correlation, while motivating fact boxes provide more thought-provoking information for future foodies.
Lilly Tries
Lilly tries is a children's book, to help children try new things in a fun way.
Journey to Poo-Topia
The hilarious new graphic novel series packed with facts - perfect for fans of A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You, Bunny Vs Monkey, Dog Man and InvestiGators! 'Fart-out-loud hilarious ... I loved every disgusting second of it!' - Jamie Smart, creator of Bunny Vs Monkey In an ordinary toilet, on an ordinary day, a small poo called Ploppy lands with a splash. Just an ordinary poo about to be flushed ...But Ploppy is anything but ordinary. He's a TALKING POO! And he's about to go on the mission of a lifetime ...Join Ploppy and his fearless guide, Professor Poo, as they boldly venture into the Secret Intestines of the Universe to discover answers to the most important Digestion Questions ... Why do we chew? Why do we fart? Why do cows have so many stomachs? And ... what will happen to Ploppy AFTER he's been flushed?! If you've ever used the toilet, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU!
Legends of Women's Figure Skating
With their flying spins and graceful leaps over the ice, figure skaters exemplify what it means to be an athlete and an artist. Legends of Women's Figures Skating features short biographies of twenty-eight of the greatest women figure skaters of all time, from pioneers like Sonja Henie and Carol Heiss; to the American legends of the '90s, such as Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan; to the rising stars of today, like Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu. Filled with colorful photos, fascinating stories, and key stats, this book will inspire both passionate fans and aspiring figure skaters.
European Socialists Across Borders
From post-war debates on institutionalised cooperation in Western Europe to the ambitions of the European Union in the post-Cold War era, this volume investigates the impact of transnational socialist networks on European construction and integration, as well as the role of European socialism in international (dis-)orders. It explores how socialist networks were influenced by relations with socialist parties and groups outside Europe, and how they navigated local, national and global politics.
Game Changers
★ "Profiles 13 inspirational athletes...Written and illustrated by two hijabi, these uplifting profiles set off by cheerful illustrations are sure to spark interest. Great for readers passionate about athletics and hijabi representation."--Booklist, starred review Meet 13 inspiring hijabi athletes who are changing the rules. Many of these women were the first in their sport to compete while wearing the hijab. Some were up against cultural traditions that didn't allow girls to play sports. And some fought to have institutional anti-hijab rules changed so that they, and Muslim girls after them, would be able to compete. Discover the stories of Egyptian beach volleyball player Doaa Elghobashy, UAE hockey player Fatima Al Ali, Afghani soccer player Hajar Abulfazl and Syrian-American runner Rahaf Khatib, among many others. Game Changers shows the next generation of Muslim girls that they don't have to choose between following their religion and following their dreams. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
A Residence in France With An Excursion Up The Rhine, And A Second Visit To Switzerland
