Bart King

A goofy and instructive book celebrating the Dad Joke lifestyle and packed with puns and wordplay for your favorite punster. Father Humor covers every aspect of the most simultaneously loathed and beloved joke form of all time: the pun. Because "Dad Jokes" should be practiced by everyone (regardless of age, gender, or family status) this book serves to encourage creative thinking and punning habits for everyone Learn how to properly deliver a pun (whether written, visual, or verbal) and how to pretend you're sorry for your Dad joke (even when you're not). Includes: quality pre-loaded puns, the taxonomy of the different types of wordplay, and famous punsters in history and on the screen. PSA: Father Humor is family friendly, not pun-ographic.

4th Bestselling Children's Book Series of all Time -The New Yorker Join Astrid, Trent, and Damien on another adventure through space and time that will take you to Elizabethan England and a futuristic world where people are mysteriously turning into ducks. Astrid and co. are back in this highly anticipated sequel to CYOA's hit Time Travel Inn Just weeks after the events of Time Travel Inn, the Inn gets an unwelcome visitor: a corrupt multiverse cop investigating the whereabouts of your grandmother Dolores. The problem is, you don't know where, or "when," she is, either. And meanwhile, your dad has developed an illness that's slowly turning him into... a duck? Your pals Trent and Damien join you (Astrid) as you travel through space and time to find a cure, and also help your grandmother evade capture. Time Travel Inn 2 is written by noted humorist and middle grade author Bart King. Choose Your Own Adventure is the bestselling gamebook series of all time. Empowering generations of children through choice, it is widely commended for its appeal to reluctant readers.

A book that explores the delicacy and critical importance of getting history right, and teaching it in an age-appropriate way in the classroom, every time. Hot Button: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content explores the difficulty, delicacy, and ethical obligations of teaching accurate history to all students. It names and explores the issues with being the 'tip of the spear' in the classroom?after a long line of generally bureaucratic and political decisions are made and how to apply appropriate logic and decision making into what constitutes your scope and sequence and lesson plans as a social studies teacher. It features contributions from Alysha Butler, Kelly Reichardt, Gerardo Mu oz, Chris Dier, and accomplished author Bart King.

4th Bestselling Children's Book Series of all Time --The New Yorker "Mind-blowing adventure and heart-stopping thrills " - Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Acclaimed children's humor author Bart King takes readers ages 8-12 on an interactive science fiction mystery adventure. Battle gladiators and escape from dinosaurs in this funny romp through time and space. Your adventurous Grandmother Dolores makes you and your family the unlikely stewards of her Time Travel Inn in rural Wisconsin. You move from Florida to Wisconsin with hopes of investigating more about the inn, and your grandmother's disappearance, but quickly learn the inn is an epicenter for time travel research gone awry. Choose Your Own Adventure is the bestselling gamebook series of all time. Empowering generations of children through choice, it is widely commended for its appeal to reluctant readers.

Robot Soup is a 40-page children's picture book that is also the lyric of a hip-hop song available at NewGrowthPublishing.com. When a hungry robot shows up at your door, it's time to cook up some motor oil and broken electronics. But what do you do when he comes back the next week with a bunch of robot friends? Unless you want them to eat the TV and your mom's new phone, you better come up with another plan quickly

More than 20 fun and engaging hands-on activities for young readers interested in robots, robotics, coding, and artificial intelligence. Activities range from how to create code to make robots learn and perform basic tasks to building very simple robots from common household items. These activities are designed to engage both the readers' hands and minds, which helps them better understand and retain the knowledge gained from the activities. Part of the Little Leonardo series. Bart King taught middle school for many years. He's written 28 books, including The Big Book of Girl Stuff, The Big Book of Boy Stuff, The Big Book of Superheroes, The Big Book of Gross Stuff, and Bart's King-Sized Book of Fun. Bart's Gibbs Smith titles have sold more than 830,000 copies combined. He resides in Portland, Oregon. Greg Paprocki works full-time as an illustrator and book designer. He has illustrated several Curious George books, as well as previous books in the Little Leonardo series, the BabyLit alphabet book series, and The Big Book of Superheroes for Gibbs Smith. His Gibbs Smith titles have sold over 130,000 copies. Greg resides in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Do NOT Read This Book At Bedtime is a 28-page picture book that helps children fall asleep. With a combination of reverse psychology, body awareness and calming repetition, it takes readers through the process of relaxing into sleep. Children will love how the book engages them, and adults will enjoy the results.

Noah Grow is a bird-watcher. If you're picturing some kid in a big floppy hat, peering up into trees through giant binoculars . . . well, good job. That's exactly what he does. Right now, Noah is on a quest to find a wood duck. According to his calculations, aka the Drake Equation, the odds are good-really good-for spotting one. That's why he gets off the bus at the wrong stop. And that's how he ends up running down a hill, crashing into a fence, and landing right next to a strange, glittery disc. Noah and his best friends, Jason and Jenny, soon discover that the mysterious disc is, well, mysterious. It gives Noah peculiar powers. As things go from odd to outrageous, Noah is swept up in a storm of intergalactic intrigue and middle-school mayhem. There's much more at stake than Noah realizes.

Portland strikes a unique balance between the rich architectural traditions of the past and the cutting-edge creative developments of modern architecture. Within a small downtown area can be found 19th-century cast-iron-front buildings, skyscrapers, old brick warehouses, a landmark 1890 train station, historic bridges, and a distinguished assortment of museum, government, and retail buildings. Its civic planning, historic preservation, and overall attractiveness make Portland a place that natives revel in and visitors admire. Written for both layperson and professional, An Architectural Guidebook to Portland is filled with history and photos that demonstrate why this city is one of the most admired in the nation. The Guidebook's first edition was praised for its readability and usefulness as a reference book. It has now been revised and updated to reflect Portland's explosive growth in the 21st century. New features include an added focus on the development of green buildings and sustainable design in Portland, a chapter on downtown bridges, expanded coverage of the city's vibrant neighborhoods, and a glossary of architectural terms. With over 250 entries that tell the stories behind Portland's celebrated cityscape, this comprehensive guide is an indispensable resource for visitors and Portlanders alike.