The Staring Contest

Author : Peter Pauper Press Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781441335067
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Staring Contest written by Peter Pauper Press Inc and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the vein of the best-selling books Press Here (Tullet), and The Book with No Pictures (Novak), Nicholas Solis has devised a way to put one of the most universally-loved kid games into a book--The Staring Contest! These self-proclaimed staring-master eyes dare the readers to enter into a staring contest--and you better watch out! Because they can stare . . . all . . . day . . . long. Even if you blow on them, they won't blink. Go ahead. Try it!

Author : Tom Booth
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250170354
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Blink! written by Tom Booth and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you can win a staring contest against an elephant? What about a gorilla, a cheetah, a fox, or an alligator? What about all them—AND a bunch of their other animal friends—at the same time? You're about to find out! Whatever you do DON'T BLINK! Readers will enjoy testing their own staring skills against a vibrant assortment of characters in this interactive picture book from talented new author Tom Booth.

Author : Mandy Len Catron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501137468
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Fall in Love with Anyone written by Mandy Len Catron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

Author : Adam Giannelli
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609384865
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tremulous Hinge written by Adam Giannelli and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer from dementia—in the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking against forces of gravity, time, and language. In these visually porous poems, boundaries waver and reconfigure along the rumbling shoreline of Rockaway or during the intermediary hours that an insomniac undergoes between darkness and dawn. Through a series of self-portraits, elegies, and Eros-tinged meditations, this hovering never subsides but offers, among the fragments, momentary constellations: “moths all swarming the / same light bulb.” From the difficulties of stuttering to teetering attempts at love, from struggling to order a hamburger to tracing the deckled edge of a hydrangea, these poems tumble and hum, revealing a hinge between word and world. Ultimately, among lofting waves, collapsing hands, and darkening skies, words themselves—a stutterer's maneuvers through speech, a deceased grandfather’s use of punctuation—become forms of consolation. From its initial turbulence to its final surprising solace, this debut collection mesmerizes.

Author : Betsy Franco-Feeney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152048747
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why the Frog Has Big Eyes written by Betsy Franco-Feeney and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fable explaining how a staring contest left frogs with large eyes.

Author : Clay Swartz
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761185445
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Wins? written by Clay Swartz and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s say Charles Dickens challenges Mother Teresa to a lightsaber duel—they’re both equally fit, so will his superior artistry overcome her advantage in bravery and leadership? Or who wins karaoke—Nelson Mandela or Jane Austen? They certainly both have a way with words, but Mandela’s over-the-top courage might take the day. Mixing and matching 100 historical figures in 50 competitive categories, from Ping-Pong to climbing Mount Everest, Who Wins? turns history into a compelling game, which means kids learn while having fun in the process. Each of the famous people is given a short bio and ranked in six categories—bravery, leadership, artistry, wealth, wisdom, and fitness. And because there are no right answers, the reader decides, and in the very act of deciding and justifying the answer, real learning has taken place. A 2017 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers.

Author : Sholly Fisch
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
ISBN 13 : 1496599411
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stare Master and Royal Pains written by Sholly Fisch and published by Stone Arch Books. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in single magazine form in TEENS TITANS GO! issue #9 and online as TEEN TITANS GO! Digital Chapters 17 and 18."--Title page verso.

Author : N.E. Thing Enterprises
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0836270061
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic Eye, Volume I written by N.E. Thing Enterprises and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People worldwide are adding another dimension to their lives: the third dimension! Thanks to the 3D wonder of Magic Eye, people of all ages find themselves spellbound by the hidden images that suddenly are leaping from book pages, greeting cards, calendars, even T-shirts and mugs. This colorful Magic Eye book guides gazers through 23 different 3D, computer-generated illustrations. Complete instructions, including two detailed viewing techniques, will have them searching for visual surprises through beautifully executed, full-page designs. Expand your Magic Eye vision and watch the wonderful happen!

Author : Adam Rubin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525428895
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Five written by Adam Rubin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times bestseller from the creators of the beloved Dragons Love Tacos comes a rollicking, rhyme-tastic, interactive high five competition--starring YOU! Discover the lost art of the high five and improve your slapping skills just in time for the annual high five contest! From hand-limbering stretches to lessons on five-ing with finesse, readers are guided through a series of interactive challenges, each goofier than the next. Acclaimed creative duo Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri have dreamed up another one-of-a-kind, laugh-out-loud book that kids will beg to read again and again.

Author : Nicholas Solis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593109929
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Town / Mi Pueblo written by Nicholas Solis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bilingual picture book, cousins from opposite sides of the border visit each other’s towns and delight in their similarities and differences. Two cousins live in two towns, separated by a river. But there is also a bigger divide—the US-Mexico border—which means they live in different countries. On the girl’s side, English is the main language, and on the boy’s it’s Spanish. The cousins love their towns, and they love visiting each other’s, where they notice some things are the same and some are wonderfully different, adding up to a vibrant world full of even more possibilities. Author Nicholas Solis shows how border towns are special places, beautiful and dynamic, because two cultures can be better than one—and both cultures should be equally treasured and respected.