Bøger af Sindy Mckay

Learn all about these predators and their amazing abilities in this book featuring spectacular photography and illustrations.

Winner of two Teacher Choice Awards and a Mom's Choice Award, the We Both Read series now has over 100 titles and 7 million copies in print! This unique series features a shared-reading format designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud. With 6 different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers. Penguins: In this book, you'll meet lots of different kinds of penguins. Some live where is it always freezing, but others prefer warm sandy beaches! Most penguins are black and white, but you'll discover one type of penguin that is blue. And while some penguins hatch their eggs in a nest, you'll learn how other penguins, instead of using a nest, keep their eggs warm on the top of their feet. Have fun learning all about penguins, amazing birds that fly through the water instead of the air!

Winner of two Teacher Choice Awards and a Mom's Choice Award, the We Both Read series now has over 120 titles and 7 million copies in print! The books in this innovative series are designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud, and with the bilingual editions they can choose to read in English or Spanish. Parents read the left-hand pages, and children read the right-hand pages, which are shorter and easier to read. With many different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers. Tropical Rainforests / Las selvas tropicales: In this bilingual English/Spanish read-aloud book, you will explore the mystery and wonder of tropical rainforests! Travel around the equator to Africa, Asia, and South America, discovering some of the world's most fascinating plants and animals and learning why the rainforests are so important to protect. The book ends by explaining the ongoing destruction of these ancient and beautiful ecosystems and how we can all help to keep the rainforests safe for the future.

Winner of two Teacher Choice Awards and a Mom's Choice Award, the We Both Read series now has over 100 titles and 7 million copies in print! This unique series features a shared-reading format designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud. With 6 different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers.Dragons Do Not Get Scared!: Written with the help of a child psychologist, this book about two young dragons can help support parents and children in discussing some of the fears that children often experience. In the story, Benny and Dean are going to spend their first night away from home without their parents. Benny is looking forward to going to his grandmother's house, but he's nervous about being away from home. His brother Dean doesn't seem nervous, but when they're alone at night, both Benny and Dean may discover that sometimes dragons do get a little scared.

We Read Phonics is an innovative series of phonics readers that parents and children will love reading together! There are now 24 titles in the series and more than 2 million copies in print. Each We Read Phonics book combines a delightful decodable story with simple phonics games for parents and children to play together. The games are quick and easy to play--and are all designed to help children read the story and improve their reading skills. Apple and Pie: Carlos has entered his calf in the Bucket Calf Contest at the county fair. Everything is going fine, until the calf gets loose at the fair and creates a huge mess! Is there any way Carlos and his calf can win the contest now?

Winner of two Teacher Choice Awards and a Mom's Choice Award, the We Both Read series now has over 120 titles and 7 million copies in print! The books in this innovative series are designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud, and with the bilingual editions they can choose to read in English or Spanish. Parents read the left-hand pages, and children read the right-hand pages, which are shorter and easier to read. With many different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers. Cute Animals/Lindos animales: This endearing bilingual English/Spanish read-aloud book features lots of adorable animals. The animal photos provide strong picture support to connect to words on the page, making it fun and easy for children to engage in the interactive reading experience. Even children who have never read a word before will be able to say that they helped to read a book and will be more excited about learning to read.

Winner of two Teacher Choice Awards and a Mom's Choice Award, the We Both Read series now has over 100 titles and 6 million copies in print! This unique series features a shared-reading format designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud. With 6 different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers. Trucks: Trucks are amazing, and there are so many different types of trucks: monster trucks, big rigs, tow trucks, food trucks, tankers, and lots, lots more! Get ready to climb aboard and take this book about trucks for a drive down the road!

This book covers the life cycle of frogs and their role in nature's food chain. Many unusual frogs are featured, and the book also discusses the threats to frogs from pollution and habitat loss. Treasure Bay's Spanish/English Editions feature the same paired reading format as the English Editions, but the text is in both English and Spanish on each page. This makes these books perfect for students to read at home with parents who read Spanish but little or no English.

"There are a lot of strange animals in the world, and this book includes some of the most unusual! These fascinating animals all have physical traits and abilities that help them to hunt for food, defend themselves, and survive in their habitats. The diversity of animal life on Earth is truly amazing and often very strange!"--Back cover.

"Ben, Becca and their new friend, Kami, go on an African safari. They see lots of wild animals in their natural habitats, solve a mystery and save the life of a baby elephant!"--

This interactive Spanish/English bilingual book features simple puzzles that will support kindergarten readiness. Cognitive and pre-reading skills are developed as parents help children think about and answer questions about the pictures.

Winner of Teacher Choice and a Mom's Choice Awards, the We Both Read series has over 100 titles and 6 million copies in print! This unique series features a shared-reading format designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud. With 6 different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers. Butterflies Up Close: This book provides readers a close-up view of many different butterflies, as well as their life cycle and amazing transformation from caterpillars. Students will learn about some of the most bizarre butterflies, as well as how butterflies protect themselves from predators. After reading this book, readers will appreciate how truly amazing these beautiful creatures are! The gorgeous photographs in the book are complemented by informative captions, and the book also includes a table of contents, glossary, and discussion questions.

"Throughout the book children search for letters in illustrations, along with various objects and animals that begin with the sound of that letter"--Page 4 of cover.

In this series, "parents and children ... take turns reading aloud. Parents read the left-hand pages, and children read the right-hand pages"--Page 4 of cover.

In this delightfully funny retelling of the classic story, the emperor hires two tailors to make him a new set of elegant and magical clothes - clothes that foolish people will think are invisible! When the emperor parades through town in his fine new clothes, while really just wearing polka-dotted shorts, only a child is willing to speak up and tell the truth.

Winner of Teacher Choice and a Mom's Choice Awards, the We Both Read series has over 100 titles and 6 million copies in print! This unique series features a shared-reading format designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud. With 6 different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers. Big Cats, Little Cats: Very beginning readers, and even pre-readers, can share in the reading of this informative and exciting nonfiction title. Through beautiful photography and engaging text children will learn about tigers, lions, cheetahs, and leopards - all of which are related to the same cats children know as house pets.

"Leamos juntos en inglaes o espaanol"--Front cover.

Winner of two Teacher Choice Awards and a Mom's Choice Award, the We Both Read series now has over 100 titles and 6 million copies in print! This unique series features a shared-reading format designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud. With 6 different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers. Frogs: This book features amazing photographs and fascinating information about tadpoles, frogs, and toads. It covers the life cycle of frogs and the important role of frogs in the food chain as both predator and prey. Many unusual frogs are featured, including poison dart frogs, flying tree frogs, and glass frogs. The book also discusses the serious threats to frogs from pollution and destruction of their habitats. The book includes a table of contents, glossary, and discussion questions.

"Leamos juntos en inglaes o espaanol"--Front cover.

In this humorous adventure, Matt takes his pet gecko to school, and disaster almost strikes when the gecko escapes. Matt and his friends try to catch the gecko as it runs around the classroom, hoping their teacher won't notice.

"Aprendizaje divertido e interactivo. Parents read, children find. El padre lee, el niano encuentra"--Front cover.

"Follows a young girl and her dad as they spend a fun-filled day exploring all the ... exhibits in a museum. Along the way, a little bird adds some ... humor as it manages to get into the museum and follows the girl and her dad through the exhibits"--Publisher marketing.

Winner of Teacher Choice and a Mom's Choice Awards, the We Both Read series has over 100 titles and 6 million copies in print! This unique series features a shared-reading format designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud. With 6 different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers. Sharks!: Students will learn all about these predators that live throughout Earth's oceans. Many different kinds of sharks are covered, along with their amazing abilities in hunting prey. The book helps dispel some common misconceptions about sharks and also helps to explain why sharks are important to the ecology of the oceans. The book also features spectacular photography and very helpful illustrations.

These Spanish/English Bilingual Editions feature the same "paired reading" format as the English Editions, but the text is in both English and Spanish on each page. This makes these books perfect for paired reading in Spanish-language homes in which parents read Spanish but little or no English. Plus, with text in both languages, children as well as their parents have the opportunity to increase their English vocabulary and practice their skills in reading English. The books are also popular for use in school, particularly for Spanish and Bilingual programs.

Winner of two Teacher Choice Awards and a Mom's Choice Award, the We Both Read series now has over 100 titles and 6 million copies in print! This unique series features a shared-reading format designed to invite parents and children to take turns reading aloud. With 6 different reading levels, these innovative books for reading together offer an easy way for parents to support beginning and struggling readers. Sparky and Posh: This We Both Read graphic novel is perfectly designed to take turns reading aloud: the dialog for the cat, Posh, can be read by a parent, and the dialog for the puppy, Sparky, can be read by child. In this very funny adventure, Sparky escapes the yard and Posh has to go out and try to rescue him from the world on the other side of the fence. With lots of humor and charm, Sparky and Posh is sure to become another read-together favorite for beginning and struggling readers.

This interactive book is designed to be read by parents to their children. Throughout the book, relatable social and emotional situations are presented with questions for children to answer about what they think are good choices for characters to make. Each situation in the book is resolved, showing how making a good choice can have a positive outcome and showing what might happen if characters made a different choice.