Instruction on how to play the flute

Brief text and colorful illustrations helps kids learn about horses with fun quizzes and activities.

Wilson's plays form a kind of fever chart of the unmooring trauma of slavery. Their historical trajectory takes African-Americans through the shock of freedom at the turn of the century (Gem of the Ocean); to the reassembling of identity in the teens (Joe Turner's Come and Gone); the struggle for power in the urban America in the twenties (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom); the dilemma of embracing their past as slaves in the thirties (The Piano Lesson);...

A collection of familiar nursery rhymes. Each rhyme contains a highlighted word that is shown in English, Spanish, and French, along with a pronunciation guide. Suggested activities are also included.

"August Wilson liked to say that his plays were "fat with substance." And he was right: his ten-play cycle - Wilson wrote one for every roiling decade of the African-American experience in the twentieth century - transforms historical tragedy into imaginative triumph. The blues are catastrophe expressed lyrically; so are Wilson's plays, which swing with the pulse of the African-American people, as they moved, over the decades, from property to personhood....

"As you read each page to your child, encourage him to find at least one of the pictured rhymes in the accompanying illustration."--Page 4 of cover.

Simple text and photographs introduce large vertebrates, including giraffes, elephants, and whales.

Text bubbles and activities invite readers to make connections and draw conclusions from the story about a young boy who cannot find his favorite book at bedtime and imagines the various creatures that might have taken it from him.

Provides the basic skills needed to play basketball including how to dribble, pass, shoot, and playing defense.