�Walking with your nose in the air or chin to your chest can create a world of limitations and missed opportunities. Let�s go for a walk in a place where there are many highs and lows. Keep your eyes open, because you never know what might happen!� Written in 1995 while teaching a course at Iowa State University titled �Creativity 129�, Bill Boon created the story of the Uppers and Downers as part of a campus celebration that occurs every spring called �VEISHA�. This story evolves around two groups of people who live very close to one another (in fact are bumping into each other) yet fail to see or choose not to see that the world they live in contains both Uppers and Downers. Bill wanted to communicate to his students the value of each person�s uniqueness and the importance of appreciating differences in others. The story has continued to be told beyond the course of the class and has finally found a home in this book with the inclusion of illustrations created by Bill�s daughter, Kelly. Hopefully, children and adults reading this book will see themselves portrayed in either the Uppers or the Downers, find it amusing and realize that if we don�t learn to LAUGH at ourselves, then it is up to the rest of the world to do it for us! The creative discovery of the secret of DIVERSITY is simply to employ ACCEPTANCE, which by the way is the name of the HERO of this little tale!

This book helps children with coin recognition. This story was created to make the learning of money or coins both fun and memorable by giving each coin a memorable personality. Therefore making it much simpler for children to identify and relate to each coin.

The Nana and Me Series is based on the author’s five grandchildren and experiences they have shared together. As parents and grandparents we all can relate to those special moments when a child says or does something that is priceless. Nature provides the perfect backdrop for creating enthusiasm and learning. Each book in the series will provide a poetic, colorful look at children and their curiosity to explore the outdoors. Each book will also introduce a new character based on each of her grandchildren, while providing learning basics, in this case the alphabet. The anticipation of the first day of Kindergarten can be a bit overwhelming for children and parents.It is my hope that this book may provide an opportunity for parents to share the story and talk about Kindergarten in a positive way. The story not only provides a playful way to introduce the alphabet but also helps calm anxiety that the child may have about the first day of school.

Read a book every day and let your imagination come out to play

The Nana and Me Series is based on the author’s five grandchildren and experiences they have shared together. As parents and grandparents we all can relate to those special moments when a child says or does something that is priceless. Nature provides the perfect backdrop for creating enthusiasm and learning. Each book in the series will provide a poetic, colorful look at children and their curiosity to explore the outdoors. Each book will also introduce a new character based on each of her grandchildren, while providing learning basics, in this case the alphabet. The anticipation of the first day of Kindergarten can be a bit overwhelming for children and parents.It is my hope that this book may provide an opportunity for parents to share the story and talk about Kindergarten in a positive way. The story not only provides a playful way to introduce the alphabet but also helps calm anxiety that the child may have about the first day of school.

Read a book every day and let your imagination come out to play

Ivanov Gennadiy Ivanovich is a 70-year old citizen of Russia, top-ranked design engineer and author of 150 inventions. He has an international certificate �TRIZ Master.� Gennadiy Ivanovich is an author of popular scientific books and methodological guidelines on theory of creativity, teacher of TRIZ, an internationally recognized technical advisor, a former pupil and successor of an outstanding Russian scientist G.S. Altshuller � the founder of TRIZ.

Ivanov Gennadiy Ivanovich is a 70-year old citizen of Russia, top-ranked design engineer and author of 150 inventions. He has an international certificate �TRIZ Master.� Gennadiy Ivanovich is an author of popular scientific books and methodological guidelines on theory of creativity, teacher of TRIZ, an internationally recognized technical advisor, a former pupil and successor of an outstanding Russian scientist G.S. Altshuller � the founder of TRIZ.

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This book is about two little squirrels that live in the forest. They love to run and play chase with each other all day long. As they jump from limb to limb chasing each other through the trees, the limbs represent numbers up to ten. This teaches the children how to count and learn what that number looks like.

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This book is designed to teach the letters of the alphabet,learn to read using the phonics of the letter in the sentence

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The Alphabetoons’ ABC’s will tickle your funny bone as you meet this not so ordinary family. Join the fun as bubbly brother Brandon, silly sister Sammie, unusual uncle Ubert, and the whole clan gather to take a family portrait.

Mr. EE has a terrible problem. His sister EA only fixes meals with peas, beans and peaches with cream, all of which causes him to sneeze. All he wants is cheese! In fact, all he wants and thinks he needs is a world filled with things spelled with two “e’s”. Reluctantly, EA agrees to go to sleep so the two can have some peace. And that’s when things get very out of hand. EE greedily buys everything “ee” he can find. Then his jeeps have no seats, his trees have no leaves and, worst of all, he can no longer read! How will he ever survive without EA to balance things out again for him?Author’s NoteIn the quest to become proficient readers and writers of the English language, every child inevitably encounters those mysterious vowel teams and wonders why we need to have so many ways to represent the same sounds. Your Peas Make Me Sneeze is the first in a series of books introducing children to the whacky world of vowel teams, their crazy antics and relationships, and how they ultimately must respectfully rely upon each other to keep their world (and our language) sane, balanced and beautiful.

Mr. EE has a terrible problem. His sister EA only fixes meals with peas, beans and peaches with cream, all of which causes him to sneeze. All he wants is cheese! In fact, all he wants and thinks he needs is a world filled with things spelled with two “e’s”. Reluctantly, EA agrees to go to sleep so the two can have some peace. And that’s when things get very out of hand. EE greedily buys everything “ee” he can find. Then his jeeps have no seats, his trees have no leaves and, worst of all, he can no longer read! How will he ever survive without EA to balance things out again for him?Author’s NoteIn the quest to become proficient readers and writers of the English language, every child inevitably encounters those mysterious vowel teams and wonders why we need to have so many ways to represent the same sounds. Your Peas Make Me Sneeze is the first in a series of books introducing children to the whacky world of vowel teams, their crazy antics and relationships, and how they ultimately must respectfully rely upon each other to keep their world (and our language) sane, balanced and beautiful.