Can We Play

The first title in a brand-new preschool series about friendship and emotions Set in a preschool for mini monsters, this fantastic new series stars four lovable characters who are learning valuable lessons about friendship and how to get along. In Can I Play?, Sparkle is getting ready to put on a magic show with her best friend, Arthur. But when Scout tries to join in, Sparkles loses her temper and cancels the show. She soon learns that some games are much better with all your friends! A colourful and energetic picture book from the exceptional new pairing of Caryl Hart and Tony Neal.

"Your mind is now the ultimate gaming engine. Ditch the remote. Ditch the controller. Explore worlds and stories through a revolutionary single-player role-playing system that pushes your imagination beyond its furthest limits"--Back cover.

Who of us cannot remember the pain and humiliation of being rejected by our classmates? However thick-skinned or immune to such assaults we may become as adults, the memory of those early exclusions is as palpable to each of us today as it is common to human experience. We remember the uncertainty of separating from our home and entering school as strangers and, more than the relief of making friends, we recall the cruel moments of our own isolation as well as those children we knew were destined to remain strangers. In this book Vivian Paley employs a unique strategy to probe the moral dimensions of the classroom. She departs from her previous work by extending her analysis to children through the fifth grade, all the while weaving remarkable fairy tale into her narrative description. Paley introduces a new rule—“You can’t say you can’t play”—to her kindergarten classroom and solicits the opinions of older children regarding the fairness of such a rule. We hear from those who are rejected as well as those who do the rejecting. One child, objecting to the rule, says, “It will be fairer, but how are we going to have any fun?” Another child defends the principle of classroom bosses as a more benign way of excluding the unwanted. In a brilliant twist, Paley mixes fantasy and reality, and introduces a new voice into the debate: Magpie, a magical bird, who brings lonely people to a place where a full share of the sun is rightfully theirs. Myth and morality begin to proclaim the same message and the schoolhouse will be the crucible in which the new order is tried. A struggle ensues and even the Magpie stories cannot avoid the scrutiny of this merciless pack of social philosophers who will not be easily caught in a morality tale. You Can’t Say You Can’t Play speaks to some of our most deeply held beliefs. Is exclusivity part of human nature? Can we legislate fairness and still nurture creativity and individuality? Can children be freed from the habit of rejection? These are some of the questions. The answers are to be found in the words of Paley’s schoolchildren and in the wisdom of their teacher who respectfully listens to them.

“A young boy’s love letter to baseball along with a slice of classic Hollywood history” Set in 1958, a young boy and his friends want to be baseball players just like their Dodger idols. There’s just one problem: they don’t have a field to play in. Luckily, the kids know a secret. There’s a mansion around the corner with a yard big enough for an entire ball field and the hedge surrounding it has a gap just big enough to crawl through. Apparently, the owner is a big-time Hollywood mogul. He won’t mind a few ball games, right? This sensational true story of a young boy’s encounter with a Hollywood legend is rich with youthful determination and summer fun, highlighting how every kid needs space to play.

What Can We Play on Sunday? is a series of six books of piano duets (one piano, four hands), each book designed for busy pianists who require accessible arrangements. Book 6 contains selections for holidays and holy days that occur during November and December, including Thanksgiving, Advent, and Christmas. Titles: *Away in a Manger *Come, Ye Thankful People, Come with Now Thank We All Our God *Go, Tell It on the Mountain *O Come, O Come Emmanuel *Praise to the Lord, the Almighty *We Gather Together

What Can We Play on Sunday? is a series of six books of piano duets (one piano, four hands), each book designed for busy pianists who require accessible arrangements. Book 5 contains selections for holidays and holy days that occur during September and October. It also contains several general hymns. Titles: * All Things Bright and Beautiful * Come, Christians, Join to Sing * Holy, Holy, Holy * Oh, How I Love Jesus * Shall We Gather at the River * What a Friend We Have in Jesus

What Can We Play on Sunday? is a series of six books of piano duets (one piano, four hands), each book designed for busy pianists who require accessible arrangements. Book 1 contains selections for holidays and holy days that occur during January and February, including Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, and Lent. It also contains several general hymns. Titles: * Amazing Grace * Fairest Lord Jesus * Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross * Let Us Break Bread Together * Morning Has Broken * What Wondrous Love Is This

What Can We Play on Sunday? is a series of six books of piano duets (one piano, four hands), each book designed for busy pianists who require accessible arrangements. Book 4 contains selections for holidays and holy days that occur during July and August. It also contains several general hymns. Titles: * Battle Hymn of the Republic * Jesus Loves Me * My Country 'Tis of Thee * Sweet Hour of Prayer / Standing in the Need of Prayer * This Is My Father's World * This Little Light of Mine