Dancing Rhinoceros Press
We are committed to providing our customers with exceptionally good books for children (and adults). We like to look at all aspects of learning and explore the little curiosities of the everyday. We support our readers with really good products that invite you to learn in a fun and interesting way. Get creative; try something a bit out of the ordinary.
The Florida Deptartment of Health is reading Our Generous Garden!
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Just Released!
Madison's Message of Hope and Healing
In a gentle and kind dialogue between Madison the dog, and Addie, a girl dealing with cancer, the reader is guided through the emotions associated with the cancer treatment process: medically, socially, and personally. With friends, family, and doctors all playing a part in this story of hope and healing, children and parents can identify components and recognize similar feelings relative to their own experience.
Timemasters
A Grainger Prize Book Series
An opportunity to capture the Grainger Prize for Inventions spur an unlikely partnership between Victor and Graciela. Encouraged by their hawkish librarian, they enter into a world of curious questions and exciting possibilities to complete their invention. And they are not the only ones interested in measuring time and its generous outcome! Each novel in this series explores a specific element involved with math, science, and physics. For middle school readers.
Copyright 2009, Carol Summerfield.
Our Generous Garden
A story of a second-grade class and their generous garden. You can follow how to plan, grow, and harvest a vegetable garden for your school or backyard. Promotes healthy eating, science, math, responsibility, and charity. What more could you ask for in just one book? Also comes with worksheets and glossary.
Copyright 2008, Anne Nagro.
The Buzz About Our Generous Garden
TIME for Kids MagazineApril 3, 2009 edition serving 1.85 million students in over 35,000 classrooms (K-6) Story/Interview by Vicki An on School Gardens, citing Our Generous Garden as a major part of the article.
Featured on Martha Stewart Living Radio"What Anne is doing is grass roots in the most original sense of the word..."
Terri Trespicio, host of Whole Living, March 3, 2009
Sirius/XM
"This important and wonderfully illustrated book is a treasure."
2009 Illinois House of Representatives Acknowledgement of Recognition Certificate for Contribution to Farm Fresh Schools Act, February 18,2009.Kirkus Discoveries Raves
"...the message is genuine and will inspire children to enjoy the fruits and vegetables of their labor....A terrific resource for elementary-level educators wanting a classroom full of raised hands and green thumbs."
Maria Shriver, First Lady of California"I applaud you for teaching children the value of healthy eating and helping others through your school garden. It is wonderful that the children are learning important lessons, but in a fun and exciting way-you are truly an architect of change!"
Nominated for the "Growing Good Kids - Excellence in Children's Literature Awards" Program 2008This award recognizes a select group of children's books that are especially effective at promoting an understanding of and appreciation for gardening and the environment by the Junior Master Gardener Program and the American Horticultural Society.
2009 Recommended Reading ListFeatured on the National Environmental Education Week's Green Reading for Kids www.eeweek.org/resources
Alice Waters, Award-winning executive chef and owner of Chez Panisse, author and advocate of the Slow Food Movement and The Edible Schoolgarden"...School gardens turn pop culture upside-down: they teach redemption through a deep appreciation for the real, the authentic, and the lasting-for the things that money can't buy.... Kids who learn environmental and nutritional lessons through school gardening-and school cooking, and eating-learn ethics."
Click here to download our press kit for Our Generous Garden (pdf).
In My Shoes:
Humor, Beauty, Spirit
Take the everyday concepts, activities, and objects in a child's world and invite them to explore all the beautiful connections contained within. Children develop many different ways to explore and learn: visually, auditorially, mathematically, kinesthetically, and interpersonally. Give the gift of the present by writing your child's responses in the book. Copyright 2007, Amy Fox, Theresa Mezebish, Susan Sklansky.
These amazing questions, photographs and pieces of artwork invite parents and children to share some special time together while exploring and discussing the everyday sights, sounds, textures, activities and objects that make up our lives.~ Kirkus Discoveries
Looks Like Sounds Like Series
Increase your vocabulary overnight with this language series including Spanish/English, German/English, Italian/English, French/English. Words that look and sound the same in both languages. Words you already know. Easy and fun for both children and adults. Copyright 2007, Dancing Rhinoceros Press, Inc.
Looks Like Sounds Like funbooks, coming soon
Pages and pages of fun activities to supplement the Looks Like Sounds Like series. Each Funbook has four levels of challenge and contains everything from picture match-up to crossword puzzles. (Spanish/English, German/English, Italian/English and French/English). Available 2008. Copyright Dancing Rhinoceros Press, Inc.
Looks Like Sounds Like
Health Edition Spanish/English. Now available
Copyright 2008 Katharine Brown.
Looks Like Sounds Like
French/English and German/English. Now available
Copyright 2008 Dancing Rhinoceros Press.
go-go gorilla Chicago
Take a walk with a silly gorilla and explore up to 30 different family-friendly and historically significant locations in a city. This four-color picture book also has a map with coordinates for foot or car. A great way to have fun in a new city as a day trip, class trip, vacation, or as an armchair traveler. Available 2008. Copyright Dancing Rhinoceros Press.
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