Making mistakes and receiving feedback are crucial elements of learning. Reading picturebooks with young children can help shape their perceptions of mistakes and model adaptive responses they can emulate, both in the short term and for years to come. This content analysis identified and analyzed ...
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“Herz (Red Stars and Shattered Shields) makes good on the fascinating premise of his latest anthology, bringing together 20 high-octane stories that add terrifying monsters to the battlefields of WWII. The creatures range from the familiar—the vampires in Peter Clines’s “The Night Crew”—t...
Books I’veWorked On Ana Siqueira’s BELLA’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS, in which a bilingual Latina girl tries to learn how to bake with her abuela and discovers the value of making mistakes and trying again, illustrated by Geraldine Rodriguez, toNaomi KruegeratBeaming Books, in a nice deal, for...
For example, an editor can help you insert common control sequences automatically, run TeX automatically (from within the editor), and keep you from making common mistakes (like typing a left brace, but not the matching right one). These features and how they work in editors including GNU ...
Teen Books Teen Books are for readers aged 12-18. They are an exploration (探险) of firsts―the first taste of independence, love, loss, or death. At this age, youths are making choices instead of having choices made for them. They may make mistakes and have to correct them. Word ...
I wish you luck making the hard choices, because there are so many good options. As always, links will take you to Old Town Books, where I take great pride in curating the kids and teens collection, and I hope you will consider supporting us. And PSST, if you’ve got a kiddo who ...
It’s one of the first children’s picture books by Mark Buehner’s wife Caralyn, and it was finished shortly after “Escape of Marvin the Ape.” And it seems like Mark is trying extra hard to make the book entertaining, while also appealing to fans of the earlier book. “Eagle-eyed ...
Since then, I have learned a LOT and gone on to publish many, many books, using the knowledge that I gained through my studies, research and mistakes. If that first book had been published, by now it would have been hatefully picked-apart by book reviewers, teachers and my peers – an...
Picture Books about Art The Book of Mistakesby Corinna Luyken. This book focuses on art, and how what a child might think is a mistake -- a blob, a dribble -- can actually turn into something wonderful if you use your imaginative powers and tinker with it in just the right way. ...