New Releases by Toni Buzzeo

After a few tries and with some help from friends, Dawdle Duckling finds the best way to hide while playing hide-and-seek with his mother and siblings.

This warm, genuine tale of fatherly guidance and support is just right for Father''s Day--or any day when a young reader is on the verge of learning a new skill. Full color.

Take your students on a learning-packed trip across the U.S. with books they ll love! This resource includes background information, activity ideas, reproducibles, and Internet connections to help you use 35 great novels as springboards to social studies learning. A great way to get your kids to read more deeplyand learn about the seven U.S. regions. For use with Grades 4-8."

A young girl listens as her great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper''s daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm.

Focuses on ways in which library media specialists and classroom teachers can collaborate in the incorporation of technology into classroom lessons.

Yearbook analyzing the market for all forms of children''s writing; articles on developing writing techniques and skills; reference section; idea generation.

A train gets noisier and more crowded as quacking ducks, dancing acrobats, talking yaks, and packs of elephants board.

Exciting, productive connections with authors, illustrators, and storytellers are at your fingertips with this resource. Unlike other author visit guides, this book goes beyond nuts-and-bolts planning to how to create the best possible encounters between students and authors. Successful visits in real space and in cyberspace are described, giving you specific ideas of the many ways to connect with and create meaningful links between bookpeople and children. Choosing the right guest, guidelines for successful visits, making curriculum connections, using e-mail to connect with bookpeople, live chats in virtual space, taking advantage of ITB and satellite technology, and using such props as realia and curriculum guides are some of the topics covered. Lists of author/illustrator web pages and managed Internet sites for author interaction are included.