Welcome to Acorn Wood. Come and help Squirrel build a snowman in this new preschool lift-the-flap story from bestselling the creators of The Gruffalo.It's snowing, and Squirrel wants to build a snowman. Will she and her friend Mole find what they need around the house? Lift the flaps to find out!With sturdy flaps on every spread and rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud, Tales from Acorn Wood: Squirrel's Snowman joins the recent Cat's Cookbook as well as the first four stories in the series - Fox's Socks, Postman Bear, Rabbit's Nap, and Hide-and-Seek Pig - which have been delighting parents and children for over twenty years!

Everyone knows that squirrels love nuts, right? Wrong! When three young squirrels meet Salty – a grumpy, greedy old squirrel, addicted to popcorn – they become tangled up in a magical adventure that is to change their lives forever. But what will become of Ben, Cassie and Alfie when the evil honey badgers show up? Will the three friends survive an unexpected tumble in the Pop-O-Matic 3000? Popcorn-Eating Squirrels of the World Unite! by bestselling children's author Matt Dickinson is a funny, non-stop action-adventure story about four squirrels who dive in to all sorts of mischief and chaos in the pursuit of a delicious new foodstuff: popcorn. Making friends, battling enemies and overcoming obstacles along the way, this is a story for children who like to be thrilled with every page turn.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

"The personality type framework allows administrators to know their staff in ways that can be applied every day. Twenty years in the principalship have given me some of the same understandings as those found here, but this book allows those lessons to be learned more quickly and with less cost." —Brian Doty, Principal Caledonia Middle School, MN "This book is research-based and grounded in practice and practical application. A wonderful resource for ensuring high-quality learning environments that honor students′ learning preferences." —Mark Bower, Director of Elementary Education and Staff Development Hilton Central School District, NY A dynamic model for transforming leadership teams into powerful agents for school change! How can you help your leadership team collaborate and resolve conflicts in ways that improve student achievement? The authors demonstrate how an understanding of personality types and adults′ individual leadership styles can help school leaders and team members understand one another′s personal working preferences, work from individual strengths, uncover new areas for development, and distribute leadership responsibilities more effectively. This text provides: Descriptions of leadership styles Ways to build a team Strategies for coping with leadership stress A model for problem solving Differentiated School Leadership is an ideal resource for principals, teacher leaders, superintendents, and those leading or serving on school improvement teams.

In the years since the publication of his first novel in 1963, Jesús López-Pacheco's work as a poet, novelist and playwright has been acclaimed by readers and critics in Spain and the Hispanic world. Although he has, since 1968, been living, writing and teaching in Canada, Poetic Asylum is the first collection of his poems to be published in English. All the poems included here were written in Canada, and many reflect the experience of exile. With their grace and play, their fierce and affirmative grip on primary issues, their fresh views on Canadian experience as well as hatred of oppression, they testify to the hardihood of the human spirit and imagination.

Whilst out and about in Witches Wood picking holly, the two little red squirrels, George and Sam – brothers and best of friends – make an astonishing discovery, one which will take them on a fantastical journey to the very palace of the immortal Snow Queen. Join George and Sam on their icy adventure and the creatures they meet along the way – a huge snowman, a friendly witch, a little fairy, an old shire horse... and not forgetting a disappearing black cat!