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One by one, ten tiny oni, Japanese goblin-like creatures, grow larger and larger as they beat their drums on the sand, chasing away bad dreams. Includes the Japanese characters for the numbers from one to ten.
When his face is changed into that of a snake after he visits a forbidden cave, a young boy wears a mask for twenty years, before being taken into the sky.
A fly uses a combination of Spanish and jazz scat to ask a sloth, a monkey, and a mackaw to transport his band to a tropical concert site, and then to talk sense to an anteater who interrupts their performance. Includes author's note on how language, rhythm, color, and life are depicted in the book.
Kate the cow longs to go to the moon.
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Accessible and hands-on yet grounded in research, this book addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of integrating literacy instruction and the arts in grades K-8. Even teachers without any arts background will gain the skills they need to bring music, drama, visual arts, and dance into their classrooms. Provided are a wealth of specific resources and activities that other teachers have successfully used to build students' oral language, concepts of print, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing, while also promoting creativity and self-expression. Special features include reproducible worksheets and checklists for developing, evaluating, and implementing arts-related lesson plans.
Haiku poetry is among the most popular forms of verse taught to children everywhere and for hundreds of years Japanese children have been introduced to haiku through the work of Kobayashi Yataro, known as Issa. Stunningly illustrated in full colour, this gorgeous book introduces the story of this revered haiku master to children and presents a special selection of his best-loved poems. An inspirational book for readers young and old about poetry, nature and life. Ages 5 plus.
Florian's elegant poems and watercolor collages are a treat -- Los Angeles Times.
Baby and his family make some jazzy music.
"A biography and introduction to the work of the Japanese haiku poet whose love of nature is expressed in over thirty poems included in this book. The haiku appear in Japanese with English translation."