Describes the experience of a young boy whose chronic ear infections are affecting his hearing, until he goes to the hospital for a simple operation.

Describes the experience of a young boy whose chronic ear infections are affecting his hearing, until he goes into the hospital for a simple operation.

With over 500 hand-picked titles, Healing Stories recommends carefully selected books essential for any adult looking to help children cope with their growing pains through reading. Featuring the long-established children's classics and the most recent library sensations, these hand-picked stories address kids' struggles - from the everyday to life-changing - while offering adults the information they need to make the right choices for their kids. Also includes useful tips to make reading fun and helpful for both adults and children.

Extensively updated this second edition again brings together a multinational group of distinguished contributors to address every aspect of psychiatric care in the medically ill. This book captures the diversity of the field, whose practitioners -- scholars, physicians, and clinicians of varied backgrounds -- represent a multiplicity of perspectives.

Now the tale of King Midas and his golden touch is charmingly retold with full-color illustrations and key sentences shown in American Sign Language (ASL). The line drawings of the storyteller (who appears in both the book and videotape) recreate 44 key sentences in ASL, making the new King Midas ideal for helping both hearing and deaf children to learn better reading skills. The King Midas videotape shows the entire classic story performed in ASL by the storyteller accompanied by a voice-over, including practice sentences from the book. A perfect complement to the book, the videotape further encourages the development of language skills while also providing an entertaining means to experience the full beauty and elegance of ASL and Deaf culture.