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This book is fantasy-fiction-style educational activity material for the young fans of Harry Potter, Descendants, Sofia the First, and other books and films of the magic fantasy genre. Does your kid want to go to a real magic school, like Harry Potter and other characters of fantasy fiction? Well tell him/her: You can take a course of real magic at home, with this real magic school textbook! And luckily for you and me, I am the author of a number of textbooks written for my courses at one of the best magic schools of Middle Earth, the North Landing Academy of Magic Arts. Even though I graduated from North Landing, I'll never send my son there. The place is infested with dragons, something large is crawling in the underground vaults every time the castle floods during the full moon, and the food is not as great as fantasy fiction authors want you to think. No. My baby stays here, and I'll homeschool him in magic. So should you. If your kid is new to magic training, advise him/her to start with my Invincible Magic Book of Spells. In Star Magic we build on the ideas first introduced in Invincible Magic. The spells in this book use only safe everyday objects and substances you have at home (like milk, sugar, paper, tree leaves, rocks, etc.); absolutely no use of fire, or any ingredients or items you may not have in your kitchen at the moment (like rosewater, or sage, or a crystal ball). These spells are not based on any witchcraft, New Age, or religious lore. Any esoteric concepts mentioned in this book are introduced in the context of the history of ideas (like ancient Egyptian mythology), or popular culture (like Zodiac signs, or palm-reading). This book will help kids develop imagination and engage in fantasy play, which is vital for their intellectual and emotional development; learn a few scientific facts (What causes tides?), some history (Stonehenge), brush up some geometry (horizontal-vertical, parallel-perpendicular, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional) and more. develop their interest in reading, and grow their reading fluency with an easy, 1st-2nd grade core vocabulary (reading levels 3-4). Have you ever wondered if ABRACADABRA is a real magic word? Well, once your child reads this book, they'll have a definitive answer to this question, as well as to many other questions, like: What is Ouroboros? What is the meaning of the word Zodiac? How do solstices and equinoxes happen? How to make your own sundial? Which runes did Vikings use for magic? What are the names of the stars in Orion's Belt? When was the hourglass invented? How do fortune-tellers read your palm? Which constellation is Aldebaran in? How do you make a Möbius strip? How do you say Forever Grateful, or Let there be light in Latin? How to find North, South, East, and West by the sun? What is the difference between Astronomy and Astrology, Chemistry and Alchemy? Which stars were considered the most powerful in the ancient world? What's so strange about the Uffington white horse? What is the infinity sign? ...And more!
The late 18th century brought the Age of Revolutions in both Europe and the New World. The American Revolution was followed by the French Revolution and a number of other uprisings on both sides of the Atlantic. This turbulent era lasted until the late 19th century. In this book we'll explore the early decades of the Age of Revolutions in Europe - from the French Revolution through the rise and fall of Napoleon.
This book follows the old-fashioned, story-based, traditional route of teaching history - presenting biographies of historical figures through engaging narrative sprinkled with memorable historical anecdotes.
We start with biographical sketches of Voltaire and Rousseau, exploring the ideological roots of revolution in the philosophy and political thinking of the Enlightenment. We touch on the stark contrast between the lofty ideas preached by these Enlightenment intellectuals and the ethical vacuum of their private lives: Voltaire spies on his benefactor for the French government... madly jealous of Rousseau, he attacks his rival with anonymous pamphlets ... Meanwhile, Rousseau, the creator of progressive education, gives up for adoption his own 5 kids because their mom is uneducated...
Our stories of revolutionary leaders focus on their personal transformations. Robespierre, a follower of Rousseau opposed to capital punishment, turns into a bloodthirsty dictator sending hundreds to the guillotine... Marat, a failed scientist, morphs into a bitter journalist-agitator driving desperately poor crowds to 'revolutionary' violence - which he uses to settle his own personal scores... An artist-turned-propagandist, Jacques-Louis David, changes colors three times! From a spoiled artist enjoying the patronage of King Louis XVI, he evolves into a vengeful heavy-hitter of the revolution, dealing out hundreds of death sentences...then U-turns to glorify absolute monarchy under Napoleon as his court painter.
The talentless and misguided royals, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, contrast sharply with the purposeful and unflinching rise of Napoleon. Additional biographical vignettes from the revolutionary era include Marat's assassin, Charlotte Corday, and Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, who ended up a 'traitor' in France.
And don't forget Admiral Nelson and Lady Hamilton - the media darlings of their day, generating scandals to stay in the public eye, and eventually facing the fallout of this classic celebrity model.
The book does not include anything outside of traditional family-friendly morality.
Illustrations are important in helping kids (and grownups!) visualize and retain a historical narrative. This book is richly illustrated with reproductions of historical paintings and photos of 18-19th-century artifacts.
A Russian fairy tale in English, adapted for kids who have started developing fluency in independent reading.
This is a Level 3 Reader: 6-8 sentences per page, 2nd-3rd grade vocabulary, large type, lots of colorful pictures and pretty vignettes.
Vasilisa's stepmother and her stepsisters send her to the Dark Forest to bring magical golden apples from the garden of the Dark Forest Witch. The golden apples turn anyone who eats them into a stunning beauty, and Vasilisa's sisters are vying to marry the King.
In her journey through the Dark Forest Vasilisa proves her commitment to love, kindness, and patience, wins the golden apples and brings them to her arrogant, evil-hearted stepsisters.
Turned into stunning beauties, wearing spectacular dresses sewn by Vasilisa, the stepsisters present themselves to the King. But if your heart is evil, your beauty won't last.
Vasilisa's tears and sleepless nights woven as pearls into her stepsisters' beautiful dresses, evaporate when Vasilisa smiles, and so does the evil sisters' beauty.
And guess who the King falls in love with!
A classic Russian fairy tale in English, adapted for kids who have started to read independently.
This is a Level 2 Reader: 4-6 simple sentences per page,1st-2nd grade vocabulary, large type, lots of colorful pictures on every page.
Beautiful Princess Vasilisa the Wise is under a spell: She will be a frog for three years. Prince Ivan's dad, the King, orders him to shoot an arrow and wherever it hits the ground, Ivan will find his bride. The arrow flies into a dark forest, and ends up in a bog. Instead of a princess, Ivan marries a frog.
But soon it becomes clear that his wife is not an ordinary frog. She turns into a princess to accompany Prince Ivan to a royal feast. Ivan dreads that Vasilisa will turn back into a frog. While she is dancing at the feast, he runs home, finds her frog skin and burns it.
Unfortunately, this happens one day too early and his enchanted princess wife turns into a bird and flies away.
Ivan looks for Vasilisa in faraway lands, and finally finds her and defeats the spell.
The lessons of the fairy tale are honor, patience, loyalty, compassion, and being true to your word.
This book is for kids who have just started learning multiplication. When memorizing times tables looms ahead, the fear of the math monster creeps in and spoils what should be a lot of fun at school. I bribed my 7-year-old son with some TV time and chocolates to memorize the x3 table, but this only confirmed his belief that math is a scary tsunami of ever growing numbers and formulas that he would rather never encounter. As a kid I struggled with math too. My Dad is a mathematician. He helped to propel me through high school math, but the fear of the math monster chased me constantly. . How to defeat that fear? You have to confront it from the very start, from the times tables and even before, to help our kids feel more in control, to show them that the math monster can purr and lick their hand. So I roped in my Dad, and together we looked at speed math methods and learning shortcuts, and collected a bunch of tricks that - minimize memorization and - maximize the sense of victory over the math monster ...when learning times tables, 2-digit multiplication, fractions, decimals, as well as addition and subtraction of larger numbers. This book covers math curricula found in the 2nd and 3rd grades - from times tables through decimals. In addition to speed math tricks, the book teaches a few classic math magic tricks, like 'reading your mind' to discover the secret number you came up with, or making a (seemingly) complex calculation in an instant. The book is colorful, with funny illustrations and captions to help retain every last drop of the precious kid attention, and to escape that scary math book look - the arctic white pages with mounting numbers - that so terrified me as a kid. It's a 'fun math' book designed to arm our kids with the magic of confidence and a bunch of speed math tricks on their early math journey.
Your country is an altar, not a pedestal, said José Martí. As we explore the whirlwinds of liberation movements around the world, my hope for this book is that it will prompt our kids to think about the value of civic commitment - the fact that our freedoms come at the cost of sacrifice - not only by previous generations, but also by every one of us.
The heroes of this book are Toussaint Louverture (Haiti), Simón Bolívar (Latin America), Laskarina Bouboulina (Greece), José Martí (Cuba), Michael Collins (Ireland), Kemal Atatürk (Turkey), Mahatma Gandhi (India), Patrice Lumumba (Congo), and Fidel Castro (Cuba). The liberation movements they represent include anti-colonial and anti-slavery movements, anti-imperial wars of independence, as well as anti-monarchy and anti-dictatorship campaigns. Many of these fighters are controversial figures - viewed as heroes and liberators by some and as terrorists or war criminals by others. Without taking sides, we'll go through their stories, read testimonies of their contemporaries and biographers, smile at historical anecdotes about them, and try to see the real people behind the legends they have each become.
As in other books of this series, we follow the traditional, 'heritage history' route of presenting historical events - history through the twists and turns of human lives, through their triumphs and disappointments, as opposed to the 'social studies' approach. And yet, I hope that through these histories of liberation movements and their fighters, my readers will be able to see the bigger picture and make their own conclusions about the unstoppable currents that make history happen. There are many parallels among liberation movements around the world that the reader will notice and reflect upon. For example,
- What does it take for a freedom / independence movement to succeed?
- Why do so many liberation movements end up in a civil war between different camps of freedom fighters?
- Why do many freedom movement leaders end up betrayed or killed by their own comrades-in-arms?
- What actions make freedom fighters 'controversial' figures - loved by some and hated by others?
- What do freedom fighters gain and what do they sacrifice?
This is an activity book for kids and teens, teaching traditional Gypsy-style fortune telling with playing cards. Great for fun with friends and guaranteed to bring you popularity among your classmates! We provide a list of traditional card meanings and teach you to interpret 3, 9, and 10-card spreads.
Why playing cards? Why not Tarot cards? The esoteric Tarot cards used for divination, as well as Tarot interpretation techniques were invented only at the end of the 18th century by the French fortune teller Etteilla. For 400 years until then, since cards first appeared in Europe, the fortune telling was done only with regular playing cards. They are a much older tradition.
Our focus is not on the esoteric aspect of divination but on the storytelling you do as you learn to connect clues offered by cards into a narrative and predict the outcome of potential events. Narratives like this - whether they touch real life events or stay in the realm of play and fantasy - help you to work through cause and effect scenarios, sort out your feelings, take responsibility for your actions, and consider the motivations and feelings of people in your life.
Have fun playing a fortune teller! This engaging activity will help you get in touch with your intuition and come up with valuable insights about the reasons and motivations behind people's behavior.
This book is a middle schooler's secret weapon designed to grow our kids' spelling skills by engaging their curiosity about word origins and language history. I am a big fan of word study books. They have improved my son's spelling for sure, but as he plowed through the piles of Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes, I knew something was missing. The missing link was the 'why' - the curiosity factor.
English is a layered language, its spelling reflecting the history of conquests (Roman, Saxon, Norman) and cultural changes (Christianization, Renaissance, etc.) However, up to 90% of multi-syllable words in English are of Latin origin. Even the most basic knowledge of Latin helps breathe meaning into boring spelling rules.
In this book I introduce the absolute beginner basics of Latin grammar and morphology that explain many features of English spelling. I also offer bits of conversational Latin (just for fun and bragging rights!) and some thematic study of Latin words whose roots produced lots of derivatives in English (body parts, food, house, nature, and personal qualities). All grammar sections are illustrated with classical Latin expressions, sayings and proverbs that are good to know as part of our Western heritage.
To get kids excited about the history of language, I conduct mini 'investigations' into the etymology of many (often commonly misspelled) words.
Then we have Latin High - a school where Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes do word studies, confront bullies and compete in the Consonant Gymnastics Junior League. These stories of intrigue, rivalries and ambition will certainly make some spelling rules more memorable! Just check out the Ex Files - the thrilling story of prefix Ex and the bully roots Radere Rasum (to scrape), Rumpere Ruptum (to break) and Radix (root) nicknamed Radish, and known for his radical views. Once you read this true account, you will never misspell 'erupt, ' 'erase, ' and 'eradicate' again! And if you read what happened at Latin High during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, you will know why 'mission, ' 'session, ' 'professor, ' and so many other English words have those double S's.
The book also offers a few special features:
This book is easy to use for independent study, as a basis for ELA school projects, or as part of a structured curriculum. I hope that this book will educate and enterta