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Seeing the World through Children’s Eyes brings an overarching emphasis on ‘seeing’ to early years research and provides an opportunity to see and hear from leading researchers in the field concerning how they work with visual methodologies in their early years research.
"An amazing take that gives a glimpse of the connection felt by the child towards its mother. The words captivate you, and bring to life the question we have all asked ourselves; “what goes on in the mind of a child?†Fortunately, the mother-child connection exists without words; but in this case, Dahveed presents the possibility for more." – Heather Mann, Ph.D.
Step into the labyrinth of verses, where words wield enchantment and tales whisper secrets untold. This book, a tapestry of emotions woven with ink and imagination, invites you on an extraordinary journey. Explore the realms of love and loss, wander through dreams and awakenings, and dance with the shadows of forgotten legends. Delve into the depths of the human spirit, where joy collides with sorrow, and hope ignites the darkest corners. With each turn of the page, anticipation blooms, leaving you yearning for the next verse, the next revelation. Unveil the mysteries that lie within these lines, for in this poetic tapestry, a world of wonder awaits. Are you ready to embark on this poetic odyssey and let your heart be forever changed?
Our view of the world is guided by the insights of science. There is no room for eternity, immorality, religion, or God. Right? Prof. Niemz, internationally renowned biophysicist and best-selling author, turns this view upside down. In six thrilling challenges, he reveals: Believing in science opens up a world view that is religiously all-embracing, spiritually deep, and touches the face of God.
This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne, and Saint-Exupéry were, and continue to be, widely translated and adapted, and have influenced the development of the genre in other countries.
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.
John Tamberlain is The Tomahawk, the universe’s most feared food critic – though he himself prefers the term ‘forensic gastronomer’. He’s on a quest, in search of the much-storied Hotel Grand Skies, a secretive and exclusive haven where the rich and famous retreat to bask in perfect seclusion. A place where the waiters know their fish knife from their butter knife, their carotid from their subclavian artery, and are trained to enforce the house rules with brutal efficiency. Blurring the lines between detective story, horror and sci-fi, Hunters & Collectors is a mesmeric trip into the singular imagination of M. Suddain – a freewheeling talent whose poise, invention and sensational sentences have already earned him comparisons to Vonnegut, Pynchon and Douglas Adams.
Through Children's Eyes By: Sarah Brittany Sandbach Ever wondered what it would be like to see the world through the eyes of children? Through Children’s Eyes was inspired by Sarah Brittany Sandbach’s first-grade students. Through countless unforgettable moments in the classroom, Ms. Sandbach developed an idea that might share these same thoughts with the world. Whether it is hopping on furniture because the floor is lava or building forts to read under, children have the right idea when it comes to viewing the world. The life we live is full of inspiring people and blessings; though it can sometimes be over-shadowed by situations that block that perspective.
