Through the use of rhyming text, celebrates playing outside together whether the weather is rainy or sunny.

To those who labor in the judiciary and law enforcement, two things are well known: time is of the essence; there’s one thing in the knowing, another in the proving. It’s implicit that no matter their vocation, what they do after hours must be something that will shatter the images of what they consistently see and hear.

See what a family does on a rainy day and what they wish they were doing.

Haneen and Yusuf together with their loving parents, set the scene for the stories' action. Ammi teaches the children that forces of nature are a divine gift in Rain Rain go Away. Ammi explains to Yusuf the true value of fasting during Ramadan. These stories aim to create cross-cultural reading and understanding.

Sing, play games, clap, and march! 25 entertaining lessons and 38 CD tracks with instrumental accompaniments and vocals reinforce children's knowledge of weekly themes and holidays. Enjoy creative dramatics and movement in most lessons as well as cross-curricular activities. Folk songs and delightful originals will put smiles on children's faces. Designed for classroom or music teachers, Music Play activities may be used for teaching or performance.

“Wasp Box is a thrilling debut that will no doubt soon garner lots of positive attention from readers and critics alike. It is that rare novel that manages to be profound while also being profoundly entertaining.” – Wraparound South “What develops in Wasp Box is horrific, beautiful, bizarre, poignant and mesmerizing. The sensory and visceral detail will cause readers to claw at their legs and necks, jam fingers into their ears, or hop on one foot to shake from the head what may lurk inside. Wasp Box portrays families at their best and worst, strongest and weakest, closest and most distant. Above all, it offers a portrait of the resilience and reliance necessary to survive.” – The Rumpus “Jason Ockert's first novel is strangely magnificent. Deep down, Wasp Box is a love story: A soldier searches for a way to come home to his sweetheart, a man attempts to be a better father to his son, a quiet boy and an odd girl find companionship in each other and an old man struggles to cope without his deceased wife. But it's also a story filled with a quiet, lurking dread. It touches on the fear that lives inside all of us, a fear that literally surfaces when a soldier returned from war births a swarm of parasitic wasps that have been nesting in his brain, feeding on his insides. Are you cringing yet? Good. Those are just the first two pages.” – Bookslut When a soldier returning home to a small New York town inadvertently transports an invasive species of deadly parasitic wasps, he sets off a frightening chain of events that throws an entire community into an unpredictable crisis. Escalating in its psychological, emotional, and narrative intensity, Ockert’s gripping first novel examines the choices individuals make in the face of danger, the limits of personal strength, and the value of family loyalty when the familiar world unravels.