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This is a complete, year-long programming guide that shows librarians how to integrate nonfiction and poetry into storytime for preschool children in order to build literacy skills and overall knowledge. The right nonfiction titles—ones with colorful photographs and facts that are interesting to young imaginations—give librarians an opportunity to connect with children who are yearning for "true stuff." Presenting poetry in storytime encourages a love of language and the chance to play with words. Written by authors with a combined 25 years of experience working with children and books in a library setting, Get Real With Storytime: 52 Weeks of Early Literacy Programming goes far beyond the typical storytime resource book by providing books and great ideas for using nonfiction and poetry with preschool children. This book provides a complete, year-long programming guide for librarians who work with preschool children in public libraries and school librarians who run special programs for preschoolers as well as parents, childcare providers, and camp counselors. Each of the 52 broad storytime topics (one for each week of the year) includes a sample storytime featuring an opening poem; a nonfiction title; picture books; songs, rhymes, or fingerplays; and a follow-up activity. Early literacy tips that are based on the authors' extensive experience and the principles of Every Child Ready to Read (ECRR) are presented throughout the book.

Ida always has her nose in a book and Alfonso is unable to get her attention until he bakes a very special apple cake for her. Includes cake recipe.

Dumpy wants to help with Apple Day and becomes an apple shop.

Apples are at the core of the family business run by Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe. But this year’s crop is unseasonably ripe with murder . . . ONE ROTTEN APPLE Blossom Valley, West Virginia, is home to Smythe Orchards, Winnie and her Granny’s beloved twenty-five-acre farm and family business. But any way you slice it, it’s struggling. That’s why they’re trying to drum up business with the “First Annual Christmas at the Orchard,” a good old-fashioned holiday festival with enough delicious draw to satisfy apple-picking locals and cider-loving tourists alike—until the whole endeavor takes a sour turn when the body of Nadine Cooper, Granny’s long-time, grudge-holding nemesis, is found lodged in the apple press. Now, with Granny the number one suspect, Winnie is hard-pressed to prove her innocence before the real killer delivers another murder . . . “The characters are delightful . . . Plenty of action and suspense.” —RT Book Reviews on Murder in Real Time Includes Recipes!

For fans of The Secret History and How to Get Away With Murder comes an exciting new voice in suspense fiction.Ten years working as a prosecutor have left Meredith Delay jaded and unsure of what she wants out of life. She's good at her job, but it haunts her. Her boyfriend wants her to commit, but she keeps him at arm's length. Then Meredith is assigned to a high-profile prosecution involving the violent murder of a fallen hockey star. At first, it appears to be just another case to work. But when her old friend Julian is accused of the murder, it takes on a whole new dimension.Meredith, Julian, Jonathan, and Lily were a tight-knit group in law school. But now, Jonathan's defending Julian, and Lily's loyalties aren't clear. And when Julian invokes a rare-and risky-defense, Meredith is forced to confront their past.Has something they played at as students finally been brought to death?

Leap'N'Lou help Apple get ready for trick or treat at Halloween. Visit the Witch's house and find out what she's been up to in her Lair.This is another visually stunning book, created by miniature Artist Julie Lamb. Julie hand makes her characters and buildings used in the set designs from her imagination, she takes her own photographs and uses Digital Art to bring the characters and scenes to life. This book is written with rhyming verse. Items used to create this book include, dried organic materials, plant fibres, clay, basswood, balsa wood, wool felt, cardboard, jewellery findings, palm fronds, cardboard, and plant based eco resin.You can find Julie on Instagram @jalminiatures Or @leapnlou

Emergent readers explore what happens to an apple tree during each season.

Compiled by four sisters and based on their recollections of their childhood in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Apple Betty & Sloppy Joe captures the glow of memories formed while growing up in a midwestern kitchen. From Lemon Meringue Pie to Tomato Soup Cake, from Mom's Chicken Pie to Grandma Noffke's Sliced Cucumber Pickles, this charming book features hundreds of recipes (some classic, some quirky), plus dozens of food and cooking-related anecdotes, memories, humorous asides, and period photos that transport readers back to Mom's or Grandma's kitchen, circa 1950. The Sanvidges share a legacy of beloved dishes and food memories that resonate not just for their family, but for readers everywhere who grew up in a small midwestern town - or wish they had. Nostalgic, funny, and warmhearted, Apple Betty & Sloppy Joe celebrates the ways food and food memories link us to our past, and to each other. A delightful gift for food lovers of any generation.

Two mice, Leap'N'Lou, are loving sisters. They love family and friends and helping others. In this book, they move from their city flat to a treehouse top end, outback Australia. Once there, they make unusual friends and bake an Apple Crumble to share, firmly bonding those friendships.This book is set around handmade characters and scenes, designed and created using handmade products.Julie's become quite well known in the miniature community on instagram, and has sold her birds and diorama's all over the world, she likes to write in verse as well as create with her hands.You can find her @jalminiatures. This is her first book.Items used for the creation of scenes in this book are. Dried organic materials, natural plant fibres, clay, balsa and basswood, golden cane palm fronds, acrylic and pastil paints, wool for felting, cardboard and plant based eco-friendly resin.Each page of illustration has taken approximately 60 or more to make items, build scenes and photograph each page to create this visual journey.

For three school years, from 2007 to 2010, about 200 high-needs New York City public schools participated in the Schoolwide Performance Bonus Program, whose broad objective was to improve student performance through school-based financial incentives. An independent analysis of test scores, surveys, and interviews found that the program did not improve student achievement, perhaps because it did not motivate change in educator behavior.