Keats, Ezra Jack, comp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1966
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 211 KEANahson, Claudia J.
Summary: In 1962, Ezra Jack Keats's picture book The Snowy Day introduced readers to young Peter, the first African American protagonist in a full-color children's book, who traipsed alone through the snowy, wondrous sidewalks of New York City. The book was a runaway success, capturing the Caldecott Medal and selling more than two million copies. In The Snowy Day and subsequent books, Keats's awareness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jewish Museum, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America 2011
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Summary: "A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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Summary: Describes the life of the legendary steel-driving man who was born and who died with a hammer in his hand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 KEAKeats, Ezra Jack.
Summary: An old nursery poem introduces animals and their young and the numbers one through ten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Moon Press 1995
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Summary: Anyone can learn to be a nature detective and tell what animals have been around, if he learns to recognize clues, especially different footprints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1966
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Summary: Provides an introduction to pairs of homophones using illustrations featuring llamas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2018
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Summary: "In this oversize board book, young readers will learn about comparative adjectives via a very humorous parrot--from noisy and noisier, to messy and messier, to happy and happier when it finally finds a friend. As with the previous books in the series, Comparrotives features surprising touch-and-feel novelty elements throughout--making the comparatives concept easy and fun to learn."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed, and imprint of ABRAMS 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRD(BOCK, JERRY, COMP.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC FIDHeath, Chip
Summary: Understanding numbers is essential - but humans aren't built to understand them. Chip Heath outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain's language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say "Wow, now I get it!" This book will help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.4226 HEAHeath, Chip.
Summary: Explains how to overcome natural biases and irrational thinking to make better decisions in work and life, drawing on extensive studies and research to outline specific strategies for enabling clear-headed thinking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 HEA(BOCK, JERRY, COMP.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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Summary: In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. "Switch" shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 HEAHeath, Chip.
Summary: Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick . Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems--the rational mind and the emotional mind--that compete for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INFORMATION AUTFIRKINS, INA TEN EYCK, COMP.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1927
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808.82 FIRHeath, Chip
Summary: This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. Why “we feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.” And why our most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our youth. Readers discover how brief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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Summary: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others--struggle to make their ideas "stick." Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? Educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.13 HEA(HOLZMAN, KEITH, COMP.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4635 YESJacob, Mira
Summary: "Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOB, MIRA JACContents: Disc 1. Side A. Her alibi (90 min.) -- Side B. Forget Paris (87 min.) -- Disc 2. Side A. Goodbye girl (103 min.) -- Best friends (109 min.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007