The Smallest Toy Store

The holiday is Christmas, the day children dream about all year as they imagine gifts with their names on them. In her charmingly illustrated new book, The Smallest Toy Store, Regina Lewis gently reminds her readers that there are children who face the holiday, and every day, without a place to call home, much less a tree or presents. Join the magical Ms. MerryWood and celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. Adrian Fogelin, author "Crossing Jordan," "Anna Caseys Place in the World," "My Brothers Hero," "Sister Spider Knows All," and "The Big Nothing" How would you prepare a meal and cook it, if you were a homeless child? Where would you safely sleep? The Smallest Toy Store welcomes sockless Jacob and Lillibeth into a warm world very different from their scary homeless life. With an Elder-Fairy who knows all, and a family who never gives up, this story is sure to make you want to cheer! And to volunteer. Jan Annino Godown, Volunteer, Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators, author of the heritage travel guide, "Family Fun in Florida" In The Smallest Toy Store, author Regina Lewis and illustrator P.M. Moore capture both the magic of Christmas and the hope of homeless Lillibeth and Jacob for home, love, and security. This book will make young readers aware of the plight of homeless children within a warm, joyous, and uplifting story! Billy Moore, author "Crackers Mule" and "Little Brother Real Snake"

The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) (www.tasp.org) is the sponsor of volume twelve in the Play & Culture Studies series. TASP is a professional group of interdisciplinary researchers who study play. Polyphony, defined as having many tones or voices, was used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin to describe the immense plurality of experiences in relationships. The chapters in volume 12 of Play & Culture Studies address the polyphony or many voices in the study of play from an interdisciplinary cadre of scholars in the fields of anthropology, education, psychology, linguistics, and history. In this time of globalization, hyper-capitalism, and discourses that disqualify children’s play, we invite the reader to participate in diverse ways of thinking about play and pedagogy. To this end, Play, Volume 12 addresses research methodology, contemporary theories, technology, and advocacy. Applications to practice and policy implications are presented.

Come and explore Mr. Kringle’s special little toy shop, where he spends his days helping every customer find just the right toy. When a box arrives at the shop with a small stuffed bunny inside, Mr. Kringle determines to find him a loving home in time for Christmas. Could the little girl who peers through the toy-shop window be the one who provides just the home he seeks? Meet Teddy, the stuffed bear who befriends Bunny, and watch their friendship deepen as, one by one, the other toys leave the shop. Will the little girl who stared at Bunny through the window ever come back to claim him? Frances Wolfe’s vibrant paintings complement her poignant prose in this heartwarming tale of love lost and found for the young and the young at heart.

Kid Combat is back! Taking place directly after the events of Volume I, "The Heist of Spring Road Toys" continues the Kid Combat adventure. It has been a busy few weeks for Kid and his closest friends. As work completes on their secret base--The Playground--Kid Combat looks into the Spring Road Toys case and finds out he has a new enemy. Alfred E. Scott is the curator of the Science Museum in Elmcrest. The well-mannered man has received high praise around Elmcrest for establishing his museum into one of the finest around. Not happy with his success and wanting more money, Scott makes a secret deal. He then threatens the businesses along Spring Road to sell their land to him. When Kid Combat finds out his favorite toy store is in danger, he gathers the members of SOCKs to help. Things only get harder for Kid Combat when a mysterious boy in town--only known as the Boy in Blue--threatens to expose one of Kid Combat's greatest secrets.

Come on an enchanted visit to Toy Realm, the most wondrous toy store in the world. Its fairytale outline shimmers high into the sky and within its swirling walls you can find every toy you have ever heard of as well as a few astounding ones you have not. When Kaci and Danny Ticklebury delve a little too closely into Toy Realm’s secrets they find they are in for much more of an adventure than they had bargained for.

Entrepreneurship develops around the world in accordance to the different cultural, political, economic and social contexts. Governments promote entrepreneurship as a way to improve economic growth. As capitalism changes, entrepreneurship also changes. This book describes some of the new profiles of entrepreneurs that are creating the entrepreneurial economy of the 21st Century. It presents entrepreneurship in a theoretical and pragmatic way in order to help readers to understand what entrepreneurship means today. Illustrated by socio-economic information and case studies of an international scope, two main questions are explicitly studied in this book: who are the new figures of entrepreneurs and how are they creating the companies of the future? The book is based on academic literature and serves as a reference to researchers interested in the evolution of entrepreneurship.

In Gleed's first novel, a highly infectious virus (The Sleeping Death Contagion — SDC) kills most of the Earth's population in less than three months. In only three days, the virus causes the death of nearly every infected victim as they sleep. Only a rare and random genetic immunity to the fatal effects of the virus leaves less than one in a hundred thousand survivors. This story follows the lives of six different survivors in Canada, England, Kenya, China, France and the United States for the first nine months after the disease strikes.

A memoir of a minority woman growing up in the ghettos of New York City shows how anyone can become someone successful. Although, Mirian’s struggles started from birth she firmly believed in many things such as castles, knights in shining armor, and a big house with a picket fence. It was those dreams that kept her spirit alive when life became too horrendously painful. Mirian Detres was not only born disabled, but she has been mentally, physically, and sexually abused. Her memoirs include being locked in a closet at the age of 9 for a year, hospitalized in a mental institution as an adult for approx. 2 years and received shock treatments, been beaten as a wife, a druggy and living in the streets as a homeless woman with her babies. It was the love she had for her children that caused her to go through a metamorphosis in life. The change was so drastic, that not even her own family recognized her. Mirian Detres’s memoirs not only takes you into a world of poverty, abuse, and neglect but it plunges the reader into a dark rabbit hole of struggles with drugs and crime only to come out on the other side as an educational scholar with two masters, doctorate of philosophy, spokes person for battered women, and a successful mother of five children. This is a true story of a woman without any role models became one herself.