"Train your mind to achieve new levels of success!Professionals and entrepreneurs do a great job of keeping up appearances. But if they're honest with themselves, they're short on living the life they really want. Train Your Brain For Success provides the perspective to analyze how you got where you are and, more importantly, learn the skills to get where you truly desire to be. Train Your Brain For Success explains specific ways of thinking and acting...

Examines how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction. "A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. Grounded in the latest neuroscience and behavioral research, and drawing widely...

"With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, 'Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?' Now there is. 'Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible, ' Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals -- everything from fluency to literary...

Shows parents and teachers how to help children build their reading comprehension and enjoyment through seven strategies, including creating mental images, employing background knowledge, asking questions, and using "fix-ups" to get back on track when stumped, and provides book suggestions.

"Ronan was a mighty barbarian. He invaded. He raided. And back home, he traded. He always found the greatest treasures. Until one day, Conan found something no barbarian wants: A BOOK. This humorous picture book from sister duo Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie and illustrator Victoria Maderna follows Ronan the Barbarian as he he grows from being just a rough-and-tumble warrior to a rough-and-tumble warrior who loves books. At first, his fellow barbarians...

Celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers the author admires above all others, from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan.

"Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this ... read-aloud anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive time in school and for the rest of their lives ... In addition to valuable advice to parents, including what it means for a child to be ready for kindergarten, special sidebars throughout the book help parents make reading aloud...

If you love to read, and presumably you do since you've picked up this book, you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think about the world. Some books, on the other hand, disappoint you so much you want to throw them against the wall. Either way, it's clear that a book can be your new soul mate or the bad relationship you need to end. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, librarian Annie Spence has crafted love letters...

A celebration of the joy that books and reading bring to children, anywhere, anytime.