Category: Reading & Writing
The best part of the day is always worth remembering. This cheerful journal provides a place for readers to record and reflect on all the little things—catching the sunset, running into a friend on the street, finishing a project—that make up the bright spots in their days!
Category: Reading & Writing
Have you ever finished a book or TV series and wished for more? Created stories, art, or videos based on a game? Dressed up as your favorite character? If so, you've entered fandom. Fan writers expand and mix up stories, like sending the Star Trek crew to Hogwarts. Cosplayers sew Star Wars and Sailor Mo ...Show more
Category: Reading & Writing
You have a story you want to tell and have even organised the time to do it. As you begin, your pen or fingers on the keyboard falter, like a little cough to clear your voice, and there's a nagging doubt that plagues you: Who am I to tell this story? What have I got to say? In this second volume of the ...Show more
Category: Reading & Writing
Built for the micro-blogging-minded writer and with space for 365 entries, this journal is the perfect way to "tag" a year of memories IRL (in real life).
Category: Reading & Writing | Series: Text Styles Ser.
A drama is a story that is experienced by an audience as a performance. In this engaging title, readers will explore acts, dialogue, stage direction, and other elements that define this genre. Mentor texts and writing prompts guide readers as they compose their own show-stopping dramas.
Category: Reading & Writing | Series: Text Styles Ser.
Adventure stories are exciting stories that take readers on a journey out of the ordinary and into the dangerous unknown. This action-packed book introduces young writers to the elements of an adventure story and provides fun ideas for writing a daring tale of one's own!
Category: Reading & Writing
Did you know that English words come from all over the world and that their meanings have changed along their journey? Our word 'zero' comes from the Arabic word for empty space. 'Companion' is from the Latin for with bread. With simple descriptions and dazzling, evocative and witty illustrations, this ...Show more
Category: Reading & Writing
Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation before a trip? Lost in Translation brings the nuanced beauty of language to life with 50 beautiful ink ill ...Show more
Category: Reading & Writing
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "Not many books about writing manage to be both as practical and entertaining as this one. Even if you've never read a Stephen King novel, the insights he shares will change how you read and write (and maybe how you li ...Show more
Category: Reading & Writing | Reading Level: 0
Some kids refuse to read, others won?t stop - not even at the dinner table! Either way, many parents question the best way to support their child?s literacy journey. When can you start reading to your child? How do you find that special book to inspire a reluctant reader? How can you tell if a book is a ...Show more
Category: Reading & Writing
Sh*t Rough Drafts collects imagined misguided early drafts of classic books, screenplays, and contemporary literature, creating visions of alternate works that would exist had the authors not come to their senses. What if F. Scott Fitzgerald had gone with the title The Coolest Gatsby? How would The Hung ...Show more
Category: Reading & Writing
What exactly is a book? This wildly inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, from Ed Ruscha to Miranda July, John Baldessari to Jonathan Lethem. Each traditional element of a book, from endpapers to footnotes, is assigned to a differe ...Show more
