Helen Lester's Books

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A True Story

By: Helen Lester

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So begins the story of Helen Lester, author of Tacky the Penguin and many other popular books for children. By sharing her struggles as a child and later as a successful author, she demonstrates that hurdles are part of the process. She even gives writing tips, such as keeping a "fizzle box." Helen Lester uses her unique ability to laugh at her mistakes to create both a guide for young writers and an amusing personal story of the disappointments and triumphs of a writer's life.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547347871

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9780547347875

A Porcupine Named Fluffy

By: Helen Lester

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A Porcupine Named Fluffy

By: Helen Lester

A porcupine named Fluffy is happier with his name after he meets a similarly misnamed rhinoceros. OThe humor is just absurd enough to make the picture-book set howl along with Hippo and Fluffy."N"The New York Times Book Review." Full color.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544003195

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9780544003194

Tacky in Trouble

By: Helen Lester

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Tacky in Trouble

By: Helen Lester

Tacky the exuberant penguin accidentally goes sailboarding and winds up on a tropical island, where he meets an elephant who demands proof of Tacky's identity.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618380086

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9780618380084

Something Might Happen

By: Helen Lester

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Something Might Happen

By: Helen Lester

Twitchly Fidget won’t shampoo, eat his cereal, or put on his sneakers. He won’t even go to a parade (what if he got sucked up into a trombone?) or a marshmallow roast (might he get stuck?) or a Fourth of February party (would he be buried in confetti?). In Twitchly’s imagination, each opportunity poses the threat of disaster. So he just sits alone in his dreary, windowless, doorless hut and waits for his fears to be realized. Then one day something does happen: Twitchly’s Aunt Bridget Fidget drops in for a visit, and she can see right away that Twitchly needs a fixin’. But will Aunt Bridget be able to persuade Twitchly to confront his fears?

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547345828

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9780547345826

Bravo, Bucket Head!

By: Helen Lester

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Bravo, Bucket Head!

By: Helen Lester

A shy young mouse ventures outside her comfort zone in this sweet picture book classic in the making from the beloved author and illustrator of Tacky the Penguin. Mousetta has never felt comfortable in her own fur. She likes to stay quiet and hidden, never brave enough to play with the other field mouse children who always seem to be having fun. The only way Mousetta can venture outside is by wearing a bucket on her head so she doesn’t have to worry about meeting anyone new. But when foxes attack and the mice have to take cover, Bucket Head may be just what the others need—if only she can muster the courage to charge forward!

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Simon and Schuster

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1534493506

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9781534493506

From Spirituals to Symphonies

African-American Women Composers and Their Music

By: Helen Walker-Hill

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From Spirituals to Symphonies

African-American Women Composers and Their Music

By: Helen Walker-Hill

Exploding the assumption that black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and pop Helen Walker-Hill's unique study provides a carefully researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the effect of race, gender, and class, From Spirituals to Symphonies notes the important role played by individual personalities and circumstances in shaping this underappreciated category of American art. The study also provides in-depth exploration of the backgrounds, experiences, and musical compositions of eight African American women including Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore, and Julia Perry, who combined the techniques of Western art music with their own cultural traditions and individual gifts. Despite having gained national and international recognition during their lifetimes, the contributions of many of these women are today forgotten.

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429

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University of Illinois Press

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0252074548

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9780252074547

Hollywood Soundscapes

Film Sound Style, Craft and Production in the Classical Era

By: Helen Hanson

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Hollywood Soundscapes

Film Sound Style, Craft and Production in the Classical Era

By: Helen Hanson

The technical crafts of sound in classical Hollywood cinema have, until recently, remained largely 'unsung' by histories of the studio era. Yet film sound – voice, music and sound effects – is a crucial aspect of film style and has been key to engaging and holding audiences since the transition to sound by Hollywood's major studios in 1929. This innovative new text restores sound technicians to Hollywood's creative history. Exploring a range of films from the early sound period (1931) through to the late studio period (1948), and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, the book reveals how Hollywood's sound designers worked and why they worked in the ways that they did. The book demonstrates how sound technicians developed conventions designed to tell stories through sound, placing them within the production cultures of studio era filmmaking, and uncovering a history of collective and collaborative creativity. In doing so, it traces the emergence of a body of highly skilled sound personnel, able to apply expert technical knowledge in the science of sound to the creation of cinematic soundscapes that are alive with mood and sensation.

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198

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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183871622X

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9781838716226

School Counseling Practicum and Internship

30 Essential Lessons

By: Helen S. Hamlet

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School Counseling Practicum and Internship

30 Essential Lessons

By: Helen S. Hamlet

School Counseling Practicum and Internship: 30 Essential Lessons combines crucial counselor knowledge with the experience of experts in the field into one practical guide for addressing the real world of school counseling. Drawing on more than a decade of teaching, author Helen S. Hamlet, PhD presents a collection of lessons and techniques that includes forms, websites, activities, and current information focusing on a range of challenging issues. This unique text is a resource that practicum and internship students, counselor educators, and practicing school counselors will keep and refer to for years to come.

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457

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SAGE Publications

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ISBN 10

1506304869

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9781506304861

Old Age

Journey Into Simplicity

By: Helen Luke

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Old Age

Journey Into Simplicity

By: Helen Luke

In Speech of the Grail, storyteller and ceremonialist Linda Sussman explores a new way to speak, one that heals and transforms. She takes for her guide Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic tale of the Grail, showing how it depicts a path of initiation toward healing speech--to "doing the truth" in word and action. "The Grail! The word stirs a deep response in the Western imagination. Joseph Campbell called the medieval stories where it is first mentioned 'the founding myth of Western civilization,' because 'according to this mythology, there is no fixed law, no established knowledge of god, set up by prophets or priests, that can stand against the revelation of a life lived with integrity in the spirit of its own brave truth.' Campbell and many other scholars, artists, and seekers have seen the Western wisdom path disclosed in the image of each knight entering the forest where no one else has made a path. The quest is to recover the elusive Grail, thereby returning its sustenance to the world. The presence of the Grail nurtures an invisible web of relationships that connect individual destiny to service of others and to the earth, thereby granting meaning" (Linda Sussman, from her introduction). Sussman begins with a beautiful retelling of the story, allowing readers to inwardly reproduce the potent inner images of the text. Then she shows that it is not so much a path toward perfection as a recovery of the proper relationship with our own imperfections. She shows, too, that it is a path in which male and female aspects work together to overcome evil.

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115

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SteinerBooks

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1584204796

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9781584204794

Hurty Feelings

By: Helen Lester

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Hurty Feelings

By: Helen Lester

It looks like trouble when Fragility, a hippopotamus whose feelings are easily hurt, meets Rudy, a rude elephant, on the soccer field.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544106229

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9780544106222

Grandmothers

Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers

By: Helen Elliott

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Grandmothers

Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers

By: Helen Elliott

An unmissable collection of writing on what it means to be a grandmother—edited by literary journalist and writer Helen Elliott.

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281

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Text Publishing

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1925923223

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9781925923223

Civil Liberties and Human Rights

By: Helen Fenwick

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Civil Liberties and Human Rights

By: Helen Fenwick

This third edition has been extensively re-written in order to consider the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998. It takes extensive account not only of the Strasbourg jurisprudence, but also of a number of key domestic decisions in the post- Human Rights Act era. Particular attention is paid to Labour legislation including the Terrorism Act 2000, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001. This book is a detailed, thought- provoking and comprehensive text that is valuable not only for students but also for all those interested in the development of civil liberties in the Human Rights Act era.

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1252

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Cavendish Publishing

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1843146495

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9781843146490

All for Me and None for All

By: Helen Lester

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All for Me and None for All

By: Helen Lester

In this hilarious picture book, bestselling author/illustrator duo Lester and Munsinger ("Tacky the Penguin") shows how Greedy Gruntly learns that sharing just might have its own rewards. Full color.

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0547688342

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9780547688343

Happy Birdday, Tacky!

By: Helen Lester

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Happy Birdday, Tacky!

By: Helen Lester

Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect have spent weeks planning the perfect party to celebrate Tacky's hatchday, and while nothing turns out quite as they expected, the penguins and their special guest have a wonderful time.

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0547912285

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9780547912288

Listen, Buddy

By: Helen Lester,Lynn Munsinger

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Listen, Buddy

By: Helen Lester,Lynn Munsinger

A lop-eared rabbit named Buddy finds himself in trouble with the Scruffy Varmint because he never listens.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395854024

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9780395854020

Hop to the Top

By: Helen Lester

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Hop to the Top

By: Helen Lester

A determined penguin hops through snow and ice to reach the top of a mountain.

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Newbridge Educational Publishing

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1567840701

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9781567840704

Mistress of Her Heart

By: Helen Carras

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Mistress of Her Heart

By: Helen Carras

Upon the death of her mother, adventurous Becky Hasting--the illegitimate granddaughter of Sir Walter Raleigh--indentures herself to gain passage to America. Aboard ship, she meets, and falls in love with, Captain Jeremy Clay, yet she knows their future together can never be. But Jeremy vows that one day he will return from the sea to claim Becky's heart.

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388

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Zebra Books

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0821755722

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9780821755723

Beyond the Norm

By: Norm Miller,Helen Kooiman Hosier

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Beyond the Norm

By: Norm Miller,Helen Kooiman Hosier

Here is the story behind the phenomenal success of Norm Miller, chairman of Interstate Batteries and businessman extraordinare. From his early years in sales to becoming chairman of the largest independent replacement battery company in the U.S., Miller talks about the principles that have been the guiding force in his life. This is a great success story and the compelling spiritual journey of an innovative leader. 8-pp photo insert.

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228

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0785276742

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9780785276746

Listen, Buddy (Read-Aloud)

By: Helen Lester

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Listen, Buddy (Read-Aloud)

By: Helen Lester

…this sprightly paced tale amiably nudges kids whose direction-following skills need some honing." —Publishers Weekly "Buddy’s father had a beautiful big nose. He was a great sniffer. Buddy’s mother had beautiful big teeth. She was a great chomper. Buddy had beautiful big ears. It didn’t matter." When someone says squash, Buddy hears wash. Tomatoes, you say? He buys potatoes. One day—because he didn’t listen—Buddy accidentally ends up at Scruffy Varmint’s scary cave. Unfortunately, he doesn’t listen to Scruffy, either…and almost ends up as bunny stew! This delightful cautionary tale is now part of a fun, 8" x 8" hardcover series about life lessons. This ebook includes audio narration as well as a code for free downloadable audio.

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