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Ash Cans & Corn Fed Hares: Book One Of The Ny Explorer's Club, Corinne Flax
Ash Cans & Corn Fed Hares: Book One Of The Ny Explorer's Club, Corinne Flax
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Ash Cans & Corn Fed Hares is a work of semi-historical fiction (set in the present, dealing with facts of the past), which can be used in a classroom or in a home to help students/children forge connections with past and present. The book also helps students find and use some of the research resources available in New York. Ash Cans showcases alternative methods of information gathering in the context of adventure and mystery, while focusing on the importance of individual meaning-making.
Don't Yuck My Yum : A Tasty Alphabet Book, Rebekah Friedman
Don't Yuck My Yum : A Tasty Alphabet Book, Rebekah Friedman
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Don't Yuck My Yum is an alphabet book that moves the reader through the experience children have when they are gathered in a restaurant for a party where each child orders a food that is somehow ruined. The phrase, "Don't Yuck My Yum", used as a refrain, is the children's angry response to receiving the disappointing plate, meaning, "don't ruin my delicious food." Because it is an alphabet book, there are 26 children, one for each letter, and a child's name that begins with each letter and a corresponding food. The story is punctuated every four stanzas with the refrain, …