Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier – författare

This beautifully photographed concept book teaches matching skills and highlights different activities animal families like to do together.

All animals have families.  Monkey, hippo, elephant, buffalo, and zebra families look very different. Do you think you can find their families? You can learn to name them in English and Swahili, too.

Grade Interest:Pre-K-2

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This beautifully photographed concept book teaches matching skills and Swahili through delight photos of animals.

Our fronts and backs are different. Can you find the back that matches the front of an animal? It''s fun guessing! It''s also fun to learn animal names in English and Swahili.

Grade Interest:Pre-K-3

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 "This is a wonderful story, complimented with beautiful photographs. Children will relate to the joy in learning to do something that is important to them, especially when it''s something they can participate in with their family!" - Becky Drews, MS. Ed Special Education

In MyaGrace Wants to Make Music, a young girl with disabilities shares her favorite activity. She loves to go to her weekly piano lesson! Everyone in her family plays a musical instrument and she wants to learn how to play so she can join them for family music time.

MyaGrace is fun and sweet as she shares her thoughts and hopes. Her emotions distract her at times, but her wonderful piano teacher builds on her love for certain notes and helps her discover that she is capable of doing much more than make noise.

This beautifully photographed story captures the joy in realizing what it means to make music and to be included. It demonstrates that inclusion can always be possible when everyone is open to possibilities.

By sharing MyaGrace''s story we celebrate her many strengths and abilities. MyaGrace has intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy.

"MyaGrace Wants To Make Music" is an exciting new title from a series featuring true stories of inclusion and the development of skills needed for self-determination....It is especially effective that the story is written from the viewpoint and in the voice of the child." - Midwest Book Review

"What a wonderful book! Love that they used real people, real stories and photos vs drawings. This book would be great to use with classrooms working on including children with special needs or just to help students learn and understand that all children are more alike than different. The whole series of books that goes along with this one should be in all elementary school libraries!" - Lori A. Eigenman, Ed.S.

MyaGrace Wants to Make Music is the first title in the Growing With Grace series that follows MyaGrace as she grows up.

>"Great book about inclusion and two individuals that love baseball as much as they love each other. Isiah''s family finds a way to include Isiah and for the boys to compete on an even level as well as share their love of baseball. The pictures are absolutely beautiful."

-Verified Amazon Purchaser

Isiah and Marco share their love of baseball. Who''s going to hit the ball farther? Who''s going to hit the ball higher? Whose ball will hit the barn? Cousins like to tease and play when Grandpa is pitching.

By sharing his story, we celebrate Isiahs'' strengths and abilities. Isiah was born with Spina Bifida and he wears leg braces.