Please Pass The Toe Jam

Hop, skip and jump on in to jam-packed, fun-filled, foot-learning experience. From start to finish the playful story line and illustrations in this book will entertain, delight and educate at the same time. Please Pass the Toe Jam proves that learning about feet can be fun! Meet your toes and first hand some of their biggest concerns; tight shoes, stubs and more. Step inside for some jingle job laughs, learn important foot facts and enjoy a fun journey through a jam lesson. The underlying message is to take good care of your toes and feet protecting them from injury and keeping them healthy. Toes have a BIG JOB! Too often toes are overlooked for their amazing contribution to everyday movements. Find out if you are a good toe caretaker. Teaching with humor is often the most impressionable way to plant a seed in someones mind. This book is intended to be one of those seeds. We all depend on our feet to last a lifetime; the lifetime of our feet depends on us.

A boy wants to make a toe jam pie for everyone who has contributed to his terrible day, but the pie turns out to have unexpected results.

Toe Jam is a picture book designed for children to explore the concept of counting through familiar objects which take on new life and "movement" with the addition of feet. In Toe Jam, the child can connect with the feet as an extension of self and with everyday objects as part of his or her environment, enticing the child to explore both story and concept of counting with heightened interest. The author uses vivid imagery and rhythmic text to create a unique read-aloud book for both home and classroom.

Have you ever heard the tales of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan? Chances are you have. But, did you know that there is one very important figure in American folklore that has been severely overlooked throughout the years? Well, there was. And did you know that the main reason this person has been almost erased from history is due to the fact that parents of the world get a little grossed out by the truth of where jelly and jam originated from? THE LEGEND OF TOE JAM JOE tells the story a funny old man named Joe who can magically make jelly come out of his feet. He travels from town to town to share his toe jam jelly with everyone that he meets, but when he shows up in the town of Bland with his rainbow of yumminess, the folks are not pleased. In fact they get down right mean and ugly and try to run poor old Joe out of town.

“A charming ‘tail’ revealing a church’s congregational life through the sharp eyes of its own church mice. A delightful read!” – Mount Olive Lutheran Church’s Monday Night Book Group Rochester, Minnesota Heaven on Earth, the second book in the Finley’s Tale series, brings to light more amusing adventures and further intriguing developments at Historic St. Peter’s, recorded by church mouse Finley Newcastle. Finley and the entire mice village perpetually observe the anything-but-boring church people, some odd shenanigans, an underground discovery, church vandalism, and much, much more. Their top priority, as always, is "Safety First". Pastor Osterhagen and his family walk by faith through the church year by doing what they do best: confidently proclaiming and trusting in Jesus Christ, their Lord and Saviour, for the forgiveness of sins, and relying on God’s daily gifts of abundant grace and protection.

After her alcholic and abusive husband leaves her and their three children in 1889, a woman defies societal conventions by embarking upon a career, taking a lover and refusing to bend in the face of personal and professional conflict.

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Meet the Topsy-Turvies family - they do everything back to front! They get up at midnight, wear their pyjamas outdoors and eat breakfast at the end of the day. So when a burglar comes to visit, he is in for a shock.

The snow forms the beginning of a near vertical chute that falls at least a thousand feet. My feet, shaking, manage to hug the thin edge of solid rock. I feel my heart creep to my throat and warm sweat drip down my back, defying the subzero Arctic air. Somehow I reach a plateau and think the worst is behind me. I couldn't be more wrong. This is the story of Dave Metz's death-defying, breathtaking, and passionate journey through the Arctic outback. Driven by his lifetime reverence for the outdoors, Dave, with the help of his two beloved Airedale terrier dogs, embarks on a three-month epic of survival and astonishing determination that rivals the most daring world-class explorations. I find myself on a gigantic trench hemmed in on both sides by peaks that look like ice-daggers from another world. The idea that I'm at the mercy of the wild sinks in. . .and I desperately want out of this endless, icebound maze. Skiing up frozen rivers, enduring bitter nights at twenty below zero, and staggering across vast reaches of barren tundra and scrub woodlands, Metz's unprecedented 600-mile trek took him to the remotest regions of the untamed North. In frightening and stunning detail, he shows us an unwavering spirit and a compelling sense of adventure that can only be satisfied when truly free. . . Dave Metz has been to Alaska over a dozen times in the last twenty years. He's kayaked across Alaska twice, once with his beloved dog Jonny riding in the bow, and lived there for two years in remote locations. He's also kayaked and trekked in Peru, Brazil, Canada, and Borneo, and has hiked across most of Oregon and Washington. Despite his forays away from home, he managed to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Portland State University, where he also did course work in zoology. He currently works for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife as a seasonal fish biologist. In addition to studying mammals and the preservation of indigenous cultures in rain forest regions, he continues zealously to embark on wilderness survival and exploration adventures, cycling, and hiking trips. He lives Philomath, Oregon.