From eating healthy foods to getting enough sleep, this nonfiction book introduces early readers to the basics of staying healthy. The vivid photos and informational text will encourage even the most reluctant reader to learn about the benefits of cleanliness, exercise, healthy foods, and medical checkups!

Encourage readers to discover which foods are healthy for them and how to make the best food choices with this nonfiction title. Featuring helpful charts and diagrams, interesting facts, informational text, and vibrant, detailed photos, readers are introduced to important concepts such as main food groups, proteins, carbohydrates, fiber, the recommended daily amounts, food allergies, and health concerns. With supportive and helpful language, readers are encouraged to make healthy eating choices to help keep them active, energetic, and strong.

Kids today need manners more than ever, and "Dude, That's Rude!" makes it fun and easy to get some. Full-color cartoons and kid-friendly text teach the basics of polite behavior in all kinds of situations--at home, at school, in the bathroom, on the phone, at the mall, and more. Kids learn Power Words to use and P.U. Words to avoid, why their family deserves their best manners, and the essentials of e-tiquette (politeness online). It seems like light reading, but it's serious stuff: Manners are major social skills, and this book gives kids a great start.

Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime the Tear Thief carries her waterproof, silvery sack over her shoulder as she soundlessly steals the tears of every child who cries. But what does she do with all of those tears? Education Market: Aligns with National Curriculum Fantasy/Imagined Worlds category and Stories that Raise Issues/Personal, Social and Emotional Development. It is a modern tale that illustrates a classic message which teaches children to value true feelings.

A First Look at Diabetes is a gentle introduction to what diabetes is, what the symptoms are and what can be done to control it. The superb A First Look At series consists of a number of reassuring picture books that give advice and promote interaction between children, parents, and teachers on a wide variety of personal, social and emotional issues. Notes for parents and teachers at the back of the book provide valuable advice for how to share this book with your child or class. Suitable for Key Stage 1 (ages 5-7), occasional prompts throughout the text give a chance to discuss the issue being raised. Written by trained psychotherapist, journalist and parent, and illustrated by an experienced children's book artist, this is a part of an acclaimed and successful, long-running series of picture-book non-fiction books for Early Years. Books in the series give advice and promote interaction between children, parents and teachers on a wide variety of personal, social and emotional issues. They are excellent tools for teachers to use during classroom discussions.

A First Look at Asthma is a gentle introduction to what asthma is, what the symptoms are and what can be done to control it. It's for children who have asthma or who want to understand about other people who have it. The superb A First Look At series consists of a number of reassuring picturebooks that give advice and promote interaction between children, parents, and teachers on a wide variety of personal, social and emotional issues. Notes for parents and teachers at the back of the book provide valuable advice for how to share this book with your child or class. Suitable for Key Stage 1 (ages 5-7), occasional prompts throughout the text give a chance to discuss the issue being raised. Written by trained psychotherapist, journalist and parent, and illustrated by an experienced children's book artist, this is a part of an acclaimed and successful, long-running series of picture-book non-fiction books for Early Years. Books in the series give advice and promote interaction between children, parents and teachers on a wide variety of personal, social and emotional issues. They are excellent tools for teachers to use during classroom discussions.

The Little Library Life Skills Kit is an updated, OBE version of The Little Library Reading Kit. The Reading Kit, which is well known and much loved by teachers, has been successfully used in schools for the last 10 years. The Kit contains 60 readers (five copies of 12 story books), plus a big book of each story for class reading, 12 colourful posters and this new Teacher's Guide which provides helpful ideas for teaching each story. It keeps eight of the best stories from the Reading Kit and introduces four new ones - all of them trialled in classrooms around the country. The Kit is a wonderful resource for Foundation Phase teachers. This brand-new Teacher's Guide has the following features: preparation and teaching ideas for each story Learning Outcomes and cross-curricular links activity pages that you can photocopy a translation of each story in all the official languages"

This collection of engaging and simple to use activities will jumpstart students' understanding of themselves, their relationships and their knowledge of how to lead a healthy lifestyle. A wealth of practical activities in the book range from class and group discussions and formal debates to games, role plays, hot seating and thought tracking. This book enables teachers to deliver effective and imaginative PSHE lessons, encouraging children to: * Share their views on issues that concern them such as bullying * Learn to think for themselves and to make their own decisions * Be aware of the dangers involved in drinking, smoking and drugtaking * Understand their relationships with family and friends * Explore social issues such as prejudice and discrimination * Learn how to handle their emotions Jumpstart! PSHE is an essential classroom resource that will encourage the personal development of children and is the perfect solution for helping teachers deliver effective and imaginative PSHE lessons.

CRAMES are practical, easy-to-use creative games that get children thinking creatively. The stimulating trigger questions develop problem solving and creative thinking skills in activities that take as little as five minutes a day. No preparation is needed, just the willingness to think creatively. Trigger questions range from 'What if the sea turned everything it touched red?' and 'How many things can you think of that squeak?' to 'How is a museum like a story?' and 'Would you rather be a picture or a fish tank? Why?' Creative thinking is a necessary tool for survival and success in today's world. Playing CRAMES will add variety to your day and help you and your pupils break out of your usual mind-set and lead you down the path of looking at the world through creative-coloured glasses