Best Selling Books by Margaret Snyder

Sound effects and surprise songs accompany a look at the wonderful world of transportation

Sound effects and surprise songs accompany a visit to the circus

In Baby''s Day, Baby experiences a day peppered with hidden noises. Through innovative Lift-a-Flap sound technology, kids can play along by pressing the button fixed to each page and listening to the sound it emanates. Like Baby, they can then guess what object is hidden behind the flaps. During the day, Baby encounters different surprises, such as a teddy bear obscured by blankets, snacks buried in a bag, and a rubber ducky covered by bubbles.

Sound Stix feature a 24-page, four-color book and a hand-held electronic sound unit featuring sixteen real-life sounds. Advanced speech technology allows Sound Stix to accurately reproduce character voices, human speech, music and sound effects. For maximum enjoyment, the book and sound unit can be used simultaneously or independently.

Critical thinking skills are essential for people to possess to be successful in the workforce and it is crucial that students leaving secondary education can be confident to be able to develop and analyze work, especially in mathematics. Students need to be able to critically think to help prepare them for their future endeavors in their modern society. Critical thinking skills are essential for any individual to synthesize and comprehend the task at hand. Encouraging students to not just look at their answer, rather how they developed their answer is one of the first steps of critical thinking. The project promotes those skills, especially when the student needs to develop or analyze mathematical work.