Summary: "Book advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge! Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other; photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 810.8 CREEdwards, David
Summary: Attempts to show how innovation in the post-Google generation is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line so firmly drawn between the arts and the sciences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 EdwardsMcKay, Autumn
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents McKaySummary: An introduction to the philosophy, psychology, and methodology associated with Montessori education for the preschool child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: North American Montessori Teachers' Association 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.39 WHASummary: Nick van Bloss possesses astonishing musical talent. He is also afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome. As this program illustrates, the two are often linked, leading those born with the disorder to view it as both a curse and a gift. Nick's journey-taking him from the humiliating loss of his career as a concert pianist toward a more self-assured acceptance of his condition-is not only inspiring;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Fox, Matthew
Contents: Preface: Creative spirit, holy spirit -- Who are we as a species? -- Creativity, our true nature -- Where does creativity come from? -- What happens when the creative spirit and we co-create? -- Adam and Prometheus, creativity and the Christ : is original sin the refusal to create, and is redemption the liberation of creativity? -- Revisioning Easter and Pentecost : rolling away the obstacles...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2002
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Contents: Molly -- Elvis is in the freezer -- Westside -- Control -- Crying about the planets -- Dangerous visions -- Wandered -- GM -- The record -- Peter the wildboy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Topshelf Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RATContents: [1] Expressin' the blues / Guitar Gabriel -- Old Bill / Big Boy Henry -- Carolina breakdown / Etta Baker -- Prison blues / Neal Pattman -- Rain in your life / Essie Mae Brooks -- Rainy night in Georgia / Capt. Luke -- Little country girl / John Dee Holeman -- Hard luck & trouble / Marie Manning -- Let's talk it over / Macavine Hayes -- Railroadin' & Gamblin / Samuel Turner Stevens.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cello 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES EXPSummary: If we're all born with creative potential, why do many children lose their inventive tendencies as they grow older? What role does organized education play? This program observes a group of 25 seven-year-olds and their families in order to study childhood creativity, why it frequently fades, and why it matters. Exploring the impact of school and whether or not it dampens the creative impulse,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Contents: Hip, hip hooray -- Warm-up to work out -- Arms up -- Cat stretch -- Jack and Jill -- Daily exercise -- Elephant walk -- Jumping jack -- Run run run in place -- Polka party -- Ja-da -- London town -- The ants go marching -- Round and round to a rondo -- Everyone likes calypso -- Spinal stretch ; Frog ; The sleeping game.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV PRESummary: Mute until the age of nine, Stephen Wiltshire learned to communicate through realistic, richly detailed drawings. Alonzo Clemens sculpts clay animal figures with great precision, even though he can barely form a sentence. Matt Savage faced extraordinary developmental problems as a child but has become a teen prodigy among jazz musicians. What is the relationship between creativity and autistic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Iamamiwhoami
Contents: Sever -- Drops -- Good worker -- Play -- In due order -- Idle talk -- Rascal -- Kill -- Goods.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cooperative Music 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK IAMRolland, Rebecca Givens
Summary: A Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist provides adults with evidence-based tools and techniques to help them have productive and meaningful conversations with children of all ages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 ROLSummary: In this lively, far-ranging Bill Moyers interview, students receive a firsthand look at the creative mind and collaboration that gave birth to All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, and other groundbreaking TV comedies. Moyers talks with producer Norman Lear about inspiration, writing, working with actors, and the ratings-driven interests with which any network television creator...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Hollywood icon John Huston shares numerous insights and experiences in this classic Bill Moyers interview, filmed five years before the director's death in 1987. Answering questions on art and personal adversity at his secluded Mexican villa, Huston also allows Moyers to join him behind the camera during the shooting of Annie. Topics include the many false starts that prefaced Huston's career;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1982
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Contents: How ya feelin' today -- Lights, camera, dance -- Heads, shoulders, knees and toes -- Hole in the ground -- Dance with me -- I've been playing on the playground -- Where do all things come from? -- Shake, rattle and roll -- Here we go looby lou -- If you're happy and you know it -- Stinky blues -- Hey diddle, diddle ; Five little monkeys -- Sing, dance and play -- Train medley -- He's got the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Tikes/Pacific Entertainment Corp. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile music CD, Call number: JE CD Music Little 2006Summary: This program brings together three psychologists who have transformed thinking about the role of creativity and emotion in maximizing human potential. In a conversation hosted by Yale University's Peter Salovey, Howard Gardner discusses his philosophy of multiple intelligences, Daniel Goleman expounds on emotional intelligence, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about flow. Interwoven throughout...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Wilson, Edward O.
Summary: In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences: what they offer to each other, how they can be united, and where they still fall short.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 WILSummary: A new reader finds sight words very frustrating until they are memorized. A good reader will be able to instantly recognize sight words without having to 'figure them out.' Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as "sight words."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Preschool Prep Co. 2007
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD MEEComstock, Beth
Summary: "Beth Comstock, the former Vice Chair and Chief Marketing Officer at GE, and their long-time head of business innovation and change initiatives, tackles the one issue that keeps managers, executives and leaders up at night at every corporation in America and throughout the world -- how to stay nimble, adapt faster and constantly evolve in the face of almost daily change and disruption. In...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 COMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 COMBrandt, Anthony K.
Summary: This powerful, wide-ranging exploration of human creativity explores how individuals, organizations, and educational institutions can benefit from fostering it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 BRAStewart, Georgiana Liccione.
Contents: Wake up, warm up (opening warm up) -- Hot diggity (warm up) -- Movin' every day (moderately vigorous activity) -- Finger poppin' (quieting activity) -- B B B bounce your knees (flexibility, activity, posture) -- Chug along choo choo (moderately vigorous activity) -- Run run run in place (vigorous activity) -- Tiptoe cool down (cool down) -- Slow stretching (cool down) -- Consider yourself...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kimbo Educational 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV STESummary: Following acclaimed poet and memoirist Maya Angelou on a visit to her childhood surroundings in Stamps, Arkansas, this Bill Moyers interview remains a classic of broadcast journalism and a valuable teaching tool for African-American studies. "I was terribly hurt in this town," Angelou tells Moyers, "and vastly loved." She recalls her rapturous discovery of Shakespeare (while savoring a favorite...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Stutz, Phil
Summary: Presents a new outlook on therapy that utilizes a new set of "tools" that allow patients to use their problems as levers to access the power of the unconscious, allowing for personal growth much faster than traditional therapy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks 2013