Goosebumps meets The Treehouse in this wonderful first instalment of a hilarious new series, Something Terrible.Tim Mulligan lives at 25 Rufus Street. You might be surprised to know that is his name, because most people think his name is Tim Tie-your-shoelaces. But no matter how many people tell him, or how often, Tim never ties his shoelaces.One morning, just as Tim was leaving for school, his mum called, ‘Tim! Tie your shoelaces. Something ter...

Paul Jennings meets The Treehouse in this hilarious new series of laugh-out-loud cautionary tales.Wanda Hushberry lives at 4 Rufus Street. You might be surprised to know that is her name, because most people think her name is Wanda Wear-your-glasses. But no matter how many people tell her, or how often, Wanda never wears her glasses.One morning, just as Wanda is leaving for school, her mum called, ‘Wanda! Wear your glasses. Something terrible could...

Paul Jennings meets the Treehouse in this hilarious new series, Something TerribleBecky Culpepper lives at 34 Rufus Street. You might be surprised to know that is her name, because most people think her name is Becky Brush-your-hair. But no matter how many people tell her, or how often, Becky never brushes her hair.One morning, just as Becky was leaving for school, her mum called, ‘Becky! Brush your hair. Something terrible could happen!’Th...

Paul Jennings meets The Treehouse in this hilarious new series of laugh-out-loud cautionary tales.Sam Crisp lives at 6 Rufus Street. You might be surprised to know that is his name, because most people think his name is Sam Stop-your-frowning. But no matter how many people tell him, or how often, Sam never stops his frowning.One morning, just as Sam was leaving for school, his mum called, ‘Sam! Stop your frowning.

This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary range of mentoring advice that speaks directly to the doctoral student. Each chapter addresses a professional or personal component of the doctoral process that represents how these exc...

Cautionary Tales for the Not-So-Cautious brings together four stories about not-so-cautious kids who live on Rufus Street - Tim, Becky, Wanda and Sam - and their terribly, wonderfully hilarious adventures when they throw caution to the wind.Do you never tie your shoelaces? Don't brush your hair? Forget to wear your glasses? Walk around with a frown? You might want to be cautious ... because you never know when something could go terribly,...

Told from Sally's point of view, this stunningly illustrated guidebook offers an intimate look inside the world of Jack Skellington and the Pumpkin Queen series, from its iconic characters to the eerie charm of Halloween Town. The perfect gift for fans of Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and immersive companion books like The Hocus Pocus Spell Book.By turns dreamy and macabre, this illustrated journal guides readers across the Hi...

Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the ‘private’ interpersonal level.Combining rich empirical analysis and theoretical rigour, the c...

The first American woman to fly in space is the 35th hero in the New York Times bestselling audiobook biography series for ages 5 to 9.From childhood, Sally Ride was a daring adventurer, and her parents encouraged her to pursue the things she loved. Those things included science and math, fast rides, and the stars in the sky. Eventually her passions and her hard work led her to NASA, where she became the country's first female astronaut, inspiring generati...

Until this book was published, most writing on special education was about specific disabilities and how to cope with them. This book, however, considers the broader context, looking at many problems for the wider system that have arisen through integration of special education within it. The book is international and comparative in its focus and includes much North American material and work by North American researchers.

To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea. - Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas was the self-styled ‘bombastic adolescent provincial Bohemian’, and whose wizardry with words ensured his dominion over poverty, alcoholism, self-destruction and, ultimately, a premature dea...

North San Diego County. A gifted pianist. A beautiful violinist. A multi-million dollar land deal. A story of intrigue, mystery, and murder in the comic-noir tradition.What is an Audio Movie? It's an image rich listening experience – a combination of narration, full-cast dialogue, music, and layered sound design created specifically for audio. Call it Cinema for the Mind.