Violet Mackerel's Outside-the-Box Set (Boxed Set)

Author: Anna Branford
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781442488595
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Violet Mackerel has outside-the-box ideas—and they’re all included in this in-the-box collection of illustrated chapter books. Violet Mackerel is quite a small girl with quite brilliant ideas. Violet’s ideas come in handy when helping out at the market, digging for dinosaur bones, knitting unusual leg warmers, braving tonsillectomies, feeding ladybugs, planning weddings, and inventing useful theories. Learn her Theory of Finding Small Things in Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot, her Theory of Giving Small Things in Violet Mackerel’s Remarkable Recovery, her Theory of Helping Small Things in Violet Mackerel’s Natural Habitat, and her Theory of Leaving Small Things Behind in Violet Mackerel’s Personal Space. And there’s one more theory you’re likely to discover: the Theory of Reading Small Books. Because once you read one of these charming chapter books, you’ll want to read them all!

Violet Mackerel's Remarkable Recovery

Author: Anna Branford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442435887
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
With her knack for seeing the positive, six-year-old Violet anticipates extraordinary results after getting her tonsils removed, such as making a special new friend and turning her everyday voice into an opera voice.

Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot

Author: Anna Branford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442435879
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69

Book Description
Introducing Violet Mackerel, a charismatic new chapter book star with a zest for life and an endearing, relatable voice akin to Ramona Quimby and Junie B. Jones. Violet is a seven-year-old with a knack for appreciating the smallest things in life: her “Theory of Finding Small Things” states that the moment of finding a tiny treasure usually coincides with the moment of having a genius idea. This creative little girl always strives to think outside the box, so when she spots a small china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it—and her methods are anything but ordinary! Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot is the first book in an irresistibly charming series starring Violet and her family that has pitch-perfect perspective and plenty of laugh-out-loud humor.

Violet Mackerel's Personal Space

Author: Anna Branford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442435917
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Violet finds a special way to cope with moving to a new home after Mama marries Vincent.

Violet Mackerel's Possible Friend

Author: Anna Branford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442494557
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Originally published: Australia: Walker Books Australia, 2013.

Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot

Author: Anna Branford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442435852
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Originally published: Newtown, N.S.W.: Walker Books Australia, 2010.

Creativity and Children's Literature

Author: Marianne Saccardi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610693566
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
Today's students need to be able to do more than score well on teststhey must be creative thinkers and problem solvers. The tools in this book will help teachers and parents start students on the path to becoming innovative, successful individuals in the 21st century workforce. The children in classrooms today will soon become adult members of society: they will need to apply divergent thinking skills to be effective in all aspects of their lives, regardless of their specific occupation. How well your students meet complicated challenges and take advantage of the opportunities before them decades down the road will depend largely upon the kind of thinking they are trained and encouraged to do today. This book provides a game plan for busy librarians and teachers to develop their students' abilities to arrive at new ideas by utilizing children's books at hand. Following an introduction in which the author defines divergent thinking, discusses its characteristics, and establishes its vital importance, chapters dedicated to types of literature for children such as fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction present specific titles and relevant activities geared to fostering divergent thinking in young minds. Parents will find the recommendations of the kinds of books to read with their children and explanations of how to engage their children in conversations that will help their creative thinking skills extremely beneficial. The book also includes a case study of a fourth-grade class that applied the principles of divergent thinking to imagine innovative designs and come up with new ideas while studying a social studies/science unit on ecology.

Violet Mackerel's Pocket Protest

Author: Anna Branford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442494603
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
In this sixth story of the Violet Mackerel series, Violet and Rose start a very small protest to make a very big impact. Violet and Rose have shared their best secrets under the big oak tree in Clover Park. And they have found some very good small things there too. So when Johnson’s Tree Services stomps in and posts a sign that says PUBLIC NOTICE–TREE REMOVAL, they know that they must do something to stop them. When their first protest washes away in the rain, Violet and Rose feel discouraged. But then they realize that the sort of people who care most about small things, like birds not having nests and people not having a place to collect acorns, might also be the sort of people who notice very small protests. And that gives them a quite brilliant idea, one that just might save their tree, on behalf of all the small things—and small people—who love it.

Violet Mackerel's Personal Space

Author: Anna Branford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442435933
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Is it possible to leave a piece of you wherever you go? Violet Mackerel thinks so in this fourth illustrated chapter book of a charming series. Violet Mackerel believes that wherever you leave something small, a tiny part of you gets to stay too—like how the little piece of green sea glass under the mattress at the beach house means that a little piece of Violet gets to stay on summer holiday. Violet’s theory is put to the test when Mama and Vincent announce some very special news: They are going to get married. And they are all going to move. Violet is excited for the wedding, but Dylan is angry about the move. Normally, it is nice to be inside with your family when there is a big noisy storm outside and there is pumpkin soup for dinner and something on TV about penguins. But it is hard to enjoy it when your brother is outside in the garden in a leaky tent. When Dylan won’t budge, the wedding preparations feel a bit sad. But just in time, Violet thinks of the perfect way to help Dylan feel better about moving. And her Theory of Leaving Small Things Behind is going to come in handy!

Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook

Author: Jim Trelease
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525505628
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children--revised and updated for a new generation of readers Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook, updated and revised by education specialist Cyndi Giorgis, discusses the benefits, the rewards, and the importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes as well as the latest research, an updated treasury of book recommendations curated with an eye for diversity, Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook offers proven techniques and strategies for helping children of all backgrounds and abilities discover the pleasures of reading and setting them on the road to becoming lifelong readers.