Children category: 1253 books
by Mary Scott Huff
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Are you looking for the perfect guide to teach your child to knit? Look no further! Creative Kids Complete Photo Guide to Knitting starts with the absolute basics about knitting, beginning with a discussion about needles and yarn, how to cast stitches onto the needle, then gradually introduces skills...
Making Books with Kids
25 Paper Projects to Fold, Sew, Paste, Pop, and Draw
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Spread the joy and craft of books in your family with Making Books with Kids. An inspiring collection of ideas and projects for encouraging an artistic spirit in children! Making Books with Kids features more than 25 creative, kid-friendly projects in design, illustration, paper decorating, binding...
The ABC's of Origami
Paper Folding for Children: Easy Origami Book with 26 Projects: Wonderful for Origami Beginners, Kids & Parents
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Create simple and elegant papercraft models with this classic origami book.
The ABC's of Origami is the ideal educational origami paper craft book for children. Arranged in the traditional ABC book sequence, this charming book displays a key word in English along with an origami folding...
Yellow Owl's Little Prints
Stamp, Stencil, and Print Projects to Make for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Celebrated indie artist Christine Schmidt offers 25 hip, imaginative, and personalizable decorations, toys, puzzles, and keepsakes for children using simple hand-printing techniques.
A new take on DIY projects for kids. Personalized, handmade items are a meaningful way to show your love for...
How to Survive Your Childhood Now That You’re an Adult
A Path to Authenticity and Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
As children, we learned to get approval by creating facades to help us get our emotional and psychological needs met, but we also rebelled against authority as a way of individuating. As adults, these conflicting desires leave many of us feeling anxious or depressed because our authentic selves are...
Pinocchio Goes Postmodern
Perils of a Puppet in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates social change from the pre World War One era to the present. The authors argue that most Americans know a trivialized, diluted version of the...
by Andrea Immel, Michael Witmore
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Sun is Gone
A Sister Lost in Secrets, Shame, and Addiction, and How I Broke Free
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This is not a partial glimpse of addiction—it is the whole story. It begins with a violent childhood that bonded two children together forever, perhaps setting the stage for what was to come. Jodee’s younger brother Brett became an alcoholic. And she the sister of an alcoholic.
As he walked the...
Boo-Tickle Tales
Not-So-Scary Stories for Ages 4-9
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
**The attraction of scary stories begins very early in childhood, but the fortitude to be truly scared comes later. So where are the scary stories for young children? Educators and storytellers, Ford and Norfolk deliver a silly and gently spooky collection of jumps, laughs, interactive moments,...
Toy Making & Toy Games
How to Make Your Own Simple Wooden & Paper Toys and Easy to Play Games Suitable for Toddlers, Kids and Adults!
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Make your own homemade toys and learn how best to play with them in Toy Making and Toy Games - a superb beginner's manual.
Ideal as a companion text for the beginning woodworker or young parent with a keen enthusiasm for DIY, this book introduces the reader to the basics of crafting wonderful,...
Japanese Origami for Beginners Kit Ebook
20 Classic Origami Models: Origami Book with Downloadable Bonus Content: Great for Kids and Adults!
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Make simple and fun paper craft models with this easy origami book and paper kit.
The ancient art of origami originated in Japan, where it is steeped in traditional values. The 20 models presented in this kit include many with strong symbolic meanings, such as the carp, the frog and the crane,...
Self-Sabotage Syndrome
Adult Children in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Adult Children are among any company's most productive and valuable employees—dedicated, conscientious, capable and eager to please. But if you are an Adult Child and have answered yes to most of the following questions,you may be suffering from workaholism, burn-out or other work-related problems....
The Making of the Modern Child
Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the idea of "the child" to the...
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain
Literature, Media and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child poverty,...