The Illustrated Emily Dickinson Nature Sketchbook
Title | The Illustrated Emily Dickinson Nature Sketchbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Walter Foster |
Pages | 115 |
Release | 2016-03-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1631591231 |
Filled with Emily Dickinson's brilliant poetry about nature and love, this book inspires drawing and literary exploration with gorgeous full color illustrations and prompts.
Balance Screen Time With Green Time
Title | Balance Screen Time With Green Time PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Morgan |
Publisher | Corwin Press |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2023-10-17 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1071912232 |
Harness the power of nature to nurture minds and hearts Youth spend anywhere between four and nine hours on screens every single day. Meanwhile, a growing body of research shows how detrimental excessive screen time is on physical and mental health. The antidote? Green time. Written by bestselling author and science educator Emily Morgan, Balance Screen Time With Green Time gives teachers and school leaders practical, evidence-based strategies that seamlessly incorporate the restorative power of nature into the school day. Transform learning experiences and improve student and educator well-being with: Research-based strategies that improve attention, engagement, pro-environmental behaviors, and mental and physical health while reducing stress Dozens of easy-to-implement "green breaks"—short, invigorating experiences with nature—that help students and teachers renew and refocus throughout the school day Stories of innovative educators who connect students with nature and offer meaningful ways to integrate green time while enhancing learning A curated collection of resources to support educators of all grade levels, content areas, and school environments—urban, suburban, and rural With green time, we have an opportunity to create a generation of students who are not only more connected to the natural world, but are also the environmental stewards our future so desperately needs. Balancing screen time with green time is an investment in student well-being, our collective future, and a healthier planet.
20 Ways to Draw Everything
Title | 20 Ways to Draw Everything PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2016-09 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 163159267X |
This awesome sketchbook four volumes of the 20 Ways series and smashes them together into one, massive, how-to guide!
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Title | The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Dickinson |
Publisher | Rock Point Gift & Stationery |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2022-04-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1631068415 |
Share in Dickinson’s admiration of language, nature, and life and death, with The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Angels & Saints
Title | Angels & Saints PDF eBook |
Author | Eliot Weinberger |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2020-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0811229874 |
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley. Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger’s lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife. Threaded throughout Angels & Saints are the glorious illuminated grid poems by the eighteenth-century Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus. These astonishingly complex, proto-“concrete” poems are untangled in a lucid afterword by the medieval scholar and historian Mary Wellesley.
A Poem for Peter
Title | A Poem for Peter PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 2016-11-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 042528770X |
A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats’s obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra’s dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs followed with the WPA and Marvel comics. But it was many years before Keats’s greatest dream was realized and he had the opportunity to write and illustrate his own book. For more than two decades, Ezra had kept pinned to his wall a series of photographs of an adorable African American child. In Keats’s hands, the boy morphed into Peter, a boy in a red snowsuit, out enjoying the pristine snow; the book became The Snowy Day, winner of the Caldecott Medal, the first mainstream book to feature an African American child. It was also the first of many books featuring Peter and the children of his — and Keats’s — neighborhood. Andrea Davis Pinkney’s lyrical narrative tells the inspiring story of a boy who pursued a dream, and who, in turn, inspired generations of other dreamers.
Dear Data
Title | Dear Data PDF eBook |
Author | Giorgia Lupi |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-09-13 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1616895462 |
Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail weekly—small portraits as full of emotion as they are data, both mundane and magical. Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year's set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives—including complaints, distractions, phone addictions, physical contact, and desires. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere.