Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks has been a perennial best seller since its publication in 2000 Now this sweet follow-up is sure to ?hit the spot? for another holiday?the one on February 14th. Candy hearts, flowers, boxes of chocolate, sure But most of all, Valentine's Day is to say ?I LOVE YOU, ? loud and clear. In this sweet tale, a little girl makes a special valentine for everyone

This book explores how educators can impact gifted young learners' beliefs about ability and suggests ways that staff can support young gifted children as they develop.

This book discusses the kind of imaginative thinking which is going on all the time without producing the masterpieces of art and culture. The author brings together the body of educational theory, psychological theory and some general opinions about imagination, to provide an account of everyday imagining for educationalists, psychologists, teachers and parents.

Deceptively gentle, Margaret Sutherland's stories hide an undercurrent of sensuality, grit and purpose. Here are seven stories with a medical or nursing unifying theme, which take on the challenging life stages - from infancy to ageing and death. The bedside manner of a charge nurse, abrasive humour from patients ravaged with pain, and hard-edged pragmatic action take the reader behind the bed curtains in hospitals and homes where all stories are personal and heart-catching.

Expert guidance on how to provide for gifted and talented children in your care.

Elisabet Delbruck (1876-1967) was one of a number of Germans who came to New Zealand in the late 1930s. Unlike most, she had not intended to emigrate but was touring the country when World War II broke out. She was at first forbidden to leave and then chose to remain in Wellington. Her thirty years in Mahina Bay on Wellington harbour had a profound effect on all who knew her. This study aims to discover why she was so remarkable. It explores her early life, her marriage into a prominent German family and her qualification as an artist. She turned this into a profession, teaching and...

Enjoy a collection of this New Zealand author's work during her years in Australia. Memoir, new short stories and reprints, and extracts from four Australian-set novels, form a sampler of her characteristic empathy, compassion and humour. Margaret Sutherland's characters live in an everyday world where they travel, work and earn. We know these men and women; they might be ourselves. In language described by Kirkus Reviews as graceful and eloquent, her writing leads us through the glories and reverses of human experience. In memoir, she reflects on themes of family bonds, of work and its...

This text discusses the kind of imaginative thinking which is going on all the time without producing the masterpieces of art and culture. The author brings together the body of educational theory, psychological theory and general opinions about imagination, to provide an account of everyday imagining for educationalists.

Can there be two more different women than Ruth, a vibrant Israeli writer who grew up amid gunfire and grenades, and long-married Barbara, living and painting in her Australian home town? Ruth's independence and her passion for Israel's political cause introduce conflict into the artistic world of Heath and Barbara Barnes. Ruth enters their close, humdrum atmosphere just as Barbara declares war on a life she now sees as subservient and controlled. Perhaps she just craves attention and respect, but Heath can't understand her needs. The newcomer is drawn in to fill a growing rift, until...