Washoe County Library System

"This book introduces key scientific concepts while broadening children's vocabulary and strengthening their early reading and writing skills. Every picture-packed page is full of things such as sounds, light, senses, and machines, with words for each image. Each topic features questions that ask children to find things on the page or that stimulate thinking, talking, and early science skills"--

Heathcliff comes to the brooding mansion, "Wuthering Heights," on the isolated moors of England as an orphan child. He and Catherine Earnshaw fall in love. The love and hate between Catherine and Heathcliff is one of the main themes. Not a typical romance novel--it has both dark and brilliant moments.

My First 1000 Words is a photographic book with bright, colorful images and a wide range of themes that children will easily recognize. Combining visually stimulating images and large, simple first words, this engrossing title has everything you need to introduce children to new concepts. With themes like Food, Animals, Home, School, Family, Jobs, and Around the World, My First 1000 Words is packed with words to develop a child's vocabulary

"A young readers' adaptation of The Queens' English (Clarkson Potter, 2021), a nonfiction illustrated reference guide to the LGBTQ+ community's contributions to the English language. This playful, richly-illustrated visual dictionary is the perfect book for anyone who has ever wondered about the origin of phrases like "zaddy", the history of the word "queer", and the wonderfully diverse, wideranging histories that have contributed to LGBTQ+ culture...