The Great Watermelon Birthday

The Great Watermelon Birthday
Author: Vera B. Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1980
Genre: Birthday parties
ISBN:

One hundred children, each with a birthday on August 10, celebrate with a party in the park and form "The Club of 101 Children."

Watermelon Party

Watermelon Party
Author: Jasmine June Cabanaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2014-11-15
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780993939112

A group of animals of different sizes and species join together to share a watermelon.

War and Watermelon

War and Watermelon
Author: Rich Wallace
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2011-06-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101524405

It's the summer of 1969. We've just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down in New Jersey, twelve-year-old Brody is mostly concerned with the top ten hits on the radio and how much playing time he'll get on the football team. But when he goes along for the ride to Woodstock with his older brother and sees the mass of humanity there, he starts to wake up to the world around him-a world that could take away the brother he loves.

Watermelon

Watermelon
Author: Marian Keyes
Publisher: Clement Wright
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2006-05-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at. She decides to go home to Dublin. And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.

WATERMELON PARTY

WATERMELON PARTY
Author: Deborah Cutforth Young
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2021-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1644682044

“Too much watermelon” inspires a respected older couple to host a watermelon party in celebration of the children in their small town. Antics of fun and love make it an afternoon to remember. And in the end, the reader knows there may be more fun with watermelon ahead.

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
Author: Harry Eiss
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443844888

Richard Dadd is a trickster, a pre-post-modern enigma wrapped in a Shakespearean Midsummer Night’s Dream; an Elizabethan Puck living in a smothering Victorian insane asylum, foreshadowing and, in brilliant, Mad Hatter conundrums, entering the fragmented shards of today’s nightmarish oxymorons long before the artists currently trying to give them the joker’s ephemeral maps of discourse. The author thinks of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man,” that cryptic refusal to reduce the warped mirrors of reality to prosaic lies, or, perhaps “All Along the Watchtower” or “Mr Tambourine Man.” Even more than Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which curiously enough comes off as overly esoteric, too studied, too conscious, Dadd’s entire existence foreshadows the forbidden entrance into the numinous, the realization of the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, that wonderfully rich Marcel Duchamp landscape of puns and satiric paradigms, that surrealistic parallax of the brilliant gamester Salvador Dali, that smirking irony of the works of Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Robert Indiana; that fragmented, meta-fictional struggle of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. John Lennon certainly sensed it and couldn’t help but push into meta-real worlds in his own lyrics. Think of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “I Am the Walrus,” and the more self-conscious “Revolution Number 9.” In “Yer Blues,” he even refers to Dylan’s main character, Mr Jones from “Ballad of a Thin Man.” If Lennon’s song is taken seriously, literally, then it is a dark crying out by a suicidal man, “Lord, I’m lonely, wanna die”; or, if taken as a metaphor for a lover’s lost feelings about his unfulfilled love, it falls into the romantic rant of a typical blues or teenage rock-and-roll song. However, even on this level, it has an irony about it, a sense of laughing at itself and at Dylan’s Mr Jones, who knows something is going on but just not what it is, and then, by extension, all of us who have awakened to the fact that the studied Western world doesn’t make sense, all of us who struggle to find meaning in the nonsense images, characters, and happenings in the song, and perhaps, coming to a conclusion that the nonsense is the sense.

Mudluscious

Mudluscious
Author: Jan Irving
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1986-01-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313078912

This light-hearted sourcebook for teachers and librarians describes food-related activities, including stories, rhymes, fingerplays, crafts, cooking and tasting experiences, and short skits, designed to delight young minds while teaching skills. Each group of recommended picture books is supplemented by topical songs, poems, chants, flannel board constructions, and puppet skits. Grades PreK-3.

Daily Discoveries for AUGUST

Daily Discoveries for AUGUST
Author: Elizabeth Cole Midgley
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1573104523

Provides language arts, social studies, writing, math, science, health, music, drama, physical fitness, and art activities for use in kindergarten through sixth grade classes which celebrate the month of August. Includes lists of books and bulletin board ideas.

Resources for Educational Equity

Resources for Educational Equity
Author: Merle Froschl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351977679

This title, first published in 1988, provides a comprehensive compilation of resources to help teachers and policy makers locate the materials they need to create equitable curriculum and classroom environments. While its primary focus is on girls and women, Resources for Educational Equity takes a comprehensive approach to equity encompassing concerns of gender, race, and disability. This title will be of interest to both students of education and to educators.

Sprinklebakes

Sprinklebakes
Author: Heather Baird
Publisher: Sterling Epicure
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Cake
ISBN: 9781402786365

How can you make cakes, cookies, and candy even MORE fun? Award-winning blogger Heather Baird, a vibrant new voice in the culinary world, has the answer: Cook like an artist! Combining her awesome skills as a baker, confectioner, and painter, she has created a gorgeous, innovative cookbook, designed to unleash the creative side of every baker. Heather sees dessert making as one of the few truly creative outlets for the home cook. So, instead of arranging recipes by dessert type (cookies, tarts, cakes, etc.), she has organized them by line, color, and sculpture. As a result, SprinkleBakes is at once a breathtakingly comprehensive dessert cookbook and an artist's instructional that explains brush strokes, sculpture molds, color theory, and much more. With easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful step-by-step photographs, Heather shows how anyone can make her jaw-dropping creations, from Mehndi Hand Ginger Cookies to Snow Glass Apples to her seasonal masterpiece, a Duraflame(R)-inspired Yule Log..