Every letter in this offbeat alphabet book will make you smile, no matter how well you know your ABCs. Have you ever seen an Alligator in an Anorak? What about a Bear in a Bathtub? Or a Crab in a Caravan? Watch out for all sorts of animals in unusual situations as you skip through the alphabet from Alligators in Anoraks to Tigers in Tents and Zebras in Zoos.

Back in the day, Langdale's job could be summed up easily: solve every problem that has anything to do with animals. He had an official RSPCA brass plague outside his Yorkshire home. He was a local figure. Off duty? There was no such thing. People would knock on the door and present the Langdales with a litter of kittens, an injured owl, any kind of stray - foxes, badgers, young otters, hedgehogs. Some folk were genuinely concerned, some overconcerned, some saw a convenient way to rid themselves of an inconvenient animal. He never knew what might happen next. Some stories will make you laugh, and some will make you weep. But they are all told with great humour and sympathy. For any animal lover, this book is a feast.

A novel that “does for Newfoundland what Empire Falls did for dying smalltown Maine and The Sportswriter did for suburban New Jersey” (Publishers Weekly). Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and a Globe and Mail Book of the Year St. John’s, Newfoundland, is a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O’Connor country. Its denizens jostle one another in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Colleen is a seventeen-year-old would-be ecoterrorist, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. Her mother, Beverly, is cloaked in grief after the death of her husband. Beverly’s sister, Madeleine, is a driven, aging filmmaker who obsesses over completing her magnum opus before she dies. And Frank, a young man whose life is a strange anthology of unpredictable dangers, is desperate to protect his hot-dog stand from sociopathic Russian sailor Valentin, whose predatory tendencies threaten everyone he encounters. This debut novel, which moves with swiftness of an alligator in attack mode through the lives of these brilliantly rendered characters, examines the ruthlessly reptilian, and painfully human, sides of all of us. “Glints with wit and jarring insight.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “An astonishing writer.” —Richard Ford

Covering more than 300 alphabet books with topic, content area, grade level, text structure, and instructional value indexing, this extensive resource guide includes bibliographic information and brief summaries of each selection as well as a chapter devoted to the unique uses of alphabet books within ELL classrooms. Alphabet books are perfect for establishing introductory lessons and serve as a starting point for project ideas. Alphabet Books: The K–12 Educators' Power Tool is ideal for school and public librarians as well as teachers who need to meet specific learning standards. The indexing by topic, grade level, and content area helps in finding just the right book for the aligned instructional objective. Some 300-plus alphabet books are additionally categorized according to the complexity of the text structure. Featured books for three grade level categories (Pre K–2, 3–6, and 7–12) are accompanied by instructional strategies to use with these books. Images of the finished student projects for every described strategy are included to clarify the instructional values. A chapter that focuses on the use of alphabet books in the English language learners' classroom offers strategies for the specific needs of this student group.

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Посібник “English Lexicology Theory & Practice” написаний англійською мовою і охоплює усі теми, що передбачені програмою вищих навчальних закладів з дисципліни “Лексикологія основної іноземної та української мов”. У посібник увійшли 9 розділів. У теоретичній частині кожного розділу автор глибоко і всебічно розкриває тему, спираючись на вже існуючі роботи вітчизняних та зарубіжних лінгвістів. У практичній частині кожного розділу посібника студентам пропонується закріпити теоретичні знання, виконуючі вправи з теми розділу. Для перевірки отриманих знань після 4-го і 9-го розділів у посібнику даються тестові завдання. Посібник призначений для студентів інститутів, університетів та факультетів іноземних мов, для викладачів, наукових працівників, перекладачів, а також усіх, хто самостійно працює над удосконаленням англійської мови.