Böcker utgivna av Proving Press

Little Sparkle, the baby in a large snowflake family, feels left out and upset because her mom and dad are busy having a party and her siblings want to leave her behind to be with their friends. She confides to the Old North Wind that she wants to run away and find some friends to play with. He agrees to help send her on an adventure. The Great North Star overhears them and tells Sparkle to look for her in the sky if she gets into trouble.

When Santa has a problem, everyone pitches in to help. Santa's helper elves try real hard, but Comet is the only one who can save the day and get Christmas back on schedule. This story puts the "Merry" back in Christmas and a "Jingle" back in Santa's step!

Scenes from the Cerebellum is the 9th literary work to be released through Mind Tavern. It is easy to say that it is extremely difficult to describe exactly what this book is, was or will be. Maybe the best way to explain these pages is: It's a "ghost book," a book about death, the Ultimate Reality in life. The Big Jump. The one event in life we are all waiting for. Included therein is a veritable phalanx of mental and photographic images abounding and manifesting on the pages like hundreds of ectoplasmic filaments, squirming out of my mind in the form of poetic excursions for the curious reader to absorb. As with many poetic works, this one screams the same: This is personal!

No one looks into the eyes of their newborn child and thinks, "I can hardly wait for the day that I start yelling at you!" Yet just as the joys of parenting delight us, the stresses of parenting test us. This book offers the tools to relieve these stresses, while also deepening our understanding of the toddler's brain, body and emotions. Plus, with Glance & Go Guides, Sample Scripts,and Illustrated Strategies, it fits seamlessly into the multi-tasking, mobile, always interrupted, time-crunched life of a toddler parent, who (though highly literate) has precious little time to read. From the expertise of parent educator Dr Yvonne Gustafson, once called "the manual children should come with," this book readies parents for the day-to-day challenges of the highly active toddler years with smart, compassionate and age-appropriate parenting support for meltdowns, sleep, sharing, transitions, refusals, whining, biting, toilet training and more. It includes a Playdate Guide, as well as guides to manage the challenges of daily living from grocery shopping to restaurants to chores. The focus is on the toddler, but also the toddler parent, with discussions on temperament, parenting style and the unique rewards, stresses, demands and discoveries of parenting. Grounded in an expert understanding of child development, a philosophy of parenting with respect, affection and support, and attention to parental stressors, needs and overall family dynamics, this book equips parents so that they can feel capable, loving and confident as they, in turn, nurture capable, loving and confident children.

If we are dedicated to facilitating the best futures for our students, we must be fully invested in lifelong learning and our personal and professional growth. In this book, the reader will hear from different educators, each sharing anecdotes and wisdom about becoming more connected, taking risks, and using failures and past experiences to help prepare for the future. Inspirational quotes appear throughout, prompting introspection and a call to action. A student also lends her perspective in a chapter, offering reflection from the other side of the classroom. When we strengthen ourselves as educators, we in turn empower others to do the same. Stronger together, we face whatever the future of learning will bring.

Welcome to the Army is a look back at Dennis Schulze's thirty years of service in the United States Army. The story begins in 1968 at the height of the war in Vietnam. A recent law school graduate, Dennis is preparing to take the bar exam when he's drafted. With one letter, the trajectory of Dennis's life changes forever. These are his experiences.

Michael has been a serious artist since his fifteenth birthday, on which his father bought him his first set of oil paints. Since then, Michael has taken AP art in high school, majored in art at the Ohio State University, and dabbled in painting, illustration, comic book and board game design throughout his ten-year career as a Japanese translator.Michael currently maintains a busy life juggling interpreting and translation work, co-raising his two children with his wife, and somehow finding time to develop three to six long-term projects at a time. But the fear of settling into a banal non-existence acts as a great motivator, and the artist continuously rediscovers that a devotion to storytelling and creation acts as the fuel needed to persist during such small windows of opportunity.