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by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Instead of forcing your child to read boring texts, why don't you the process a lot more fun and engaging? You can use this workbook to help your child practice on sight words. Sight words are the most commonly seen words. Getting familiar with them is the first and most important step to reading later on. Grab a copy today!
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book discusses what sight words are, and how important the understanding of this key reading concept is. Unlike other educational materials available in school, this book utilizes a powerful combination of pictures, colors and select texts. The purpose of which is to encourage self-paced learning for optimum information absorption. Grab a copy today!
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Make reading less boring by training your child to see and read sight words. This ability is the key to a smooth reading experience. Your child will love this reading book because the information is presented in a light yet straightforward manner. Information shared here is age-appropriate so you, as a parent, need not to worry if you're child is learning as desired. Grab a copy now!
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
DK's Star Wars Readers help kids learn to read while enjoying the stories and characters from the blockbuster movies. In Blast Off!, beginning readers take a ride through the Star Wars galaxy, meeting some of the amazing characters and creatures who live there.
Packed with full-color photographs...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List
The Essential Passport to Worlds Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
"Great reads for busy people."
This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and non-fiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, womenas fiction and chick lit, westerns, science fiction, such...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Twenty-five writers divulge the special books-all 250 of them-occupying the prime real estate next to their beds: how they got there, what makes them stand out, what longings they fulfill. Along the way, the wordsmiths offer insights into their own literary pursuits and why reading is such a critical...
More Book Lust
Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
The response to Nancy Pearl’s surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl’s encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth reading, and her Rule of 50 (give a book 50...
Writing with Scissors
American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors...
The Pleasure of Reading
43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A....
In Praise of Reading and Fiction
The Nobel Lecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction's power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. "We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more...
Beyond Gatsby
How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century—including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner—first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors like Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis produced some of their most important works during this period....
The Torchlight List
Around the World in 200 Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In today’s world it seems that everywhere we turn we are saturated with book recommendations from talk shows, magazines, radio shows, friends, and top ten lists. But which books are really the best, and what effects do the books we read have on our intelligence? The Torchlight List has the answers....
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised
A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts—that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.
While...
by Orhan Pamuk
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about reading and writing novels.
In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive...