Books by Charles Ghigna
Oh My, Pumpkin Pie! (Step into Reading, Step 2)
Read about all kinds of pumpkins in this silly story, perfect for the fall season!
Autumn in the pumpkin patch, no two pumpkins ever match!
Some are big and win a prize, some wind up in pumpkin pies!
Visit the pumpkin patch for some fall-tastic fun with pumpkins big and small! This rhyimg adventure is ideal for beginning readers. Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.
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One Hundred Shoes: A Math Reader (Step-Into-Reading, Step 2)
Centipede has one hundred feet. One hundred feet means one hundred shoes. How in the world does Centipede choose shoes? This Math Reader clearly demonstrates the concepts of pairs and multiple sets, all in simple, rollicking, rhythmic text and with bright, graphic illustrations.
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Snow Wonder (Step into Reading)
WHEN TWO CHILDREN wake up to find that it has snowed, they spend the day riding sleds, building snowmen, making snow angels, skating a figure eight, and even taking a break to make gingerbread cookies with grandma. It’s a day filled with wonderful wintry fun!
In simple, rhymed text new readers get to experience the wonder of that magical first snow fall. Includes two pages of festive stickers!
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Barn Storm (Step into Reading)
by Charles Ghigna, Debra Ghigna
This comical introduction to cause and effect is ideal for emergent readers, who look for cues in simple rhymed text and bright, bold art as they take their first steps toward reading independently.
When a twister hits the pond near Farmer Brown’s farm, some very odd things happen. The fish and frogs take flight. They land in some unlikely places—like the barn and the pigs’ trough—setting off an uproarious chain of events that affects the entire farm. Once the weather subsides and the farmer and his family emerge from the storm cellar, they encounter a whole new world, including some unexpected (and four-legged) tenants in their house!
Step into Reading is a complete literacy program with something for every child. The program offers five steps to reading success. Children can progress through the steps at their own speed, developing confidence in their reading, no matter what their grade. Every book’s step is printed on the cover and the spine. Each title contains a fun story and is filled with colorful art.
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Mice Are Nice (Step-Into-Reading, Step 2)
by Charles Ghigna, Jon Goodell
These are just three of the reasons why mice are nice. It is indisputable that mice make the best pets of all. The other pets in Babette's pet store will drop feathers everywhere, growl, hide inside their shells, chew your favorite socks, and maybe even make you sneeze! So it's clear that mice are the only pet you will ever need! With its rhyming text and romping animal fun, kids will eagerly tackle this Step into Reading® Step 1 book by award-winning author Charles Ghigna will be grabbed up by kids everywhere.
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See the Yak Yak (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)
Have you ever seen a fly fly, or a duck duck? You will have when you read this book! In See the Yak Yak, comical illustrations help beginning readers decode the simple text and decipher the riddle rhymes while they learn about homonyms, words that sound alike but that have different meanings. This melodious menagerie will have kids kid-ding around for hours!
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If You Were My Valentine
by Charles Ghigna, Lynn Plourde
This board book follow-up to If I Could Give You Christmas is an adorable celebration of love and the special relationship between parents and children.
If you were my valentine,
I would jump, jump with joy!
Valentine's Day is for cuddles, sweet treats, silly games, and spending time with the ones we hold dear. Join all kinds of animals and their valentines—from rabbits and puffins, to cougars and otters, to a bigger-than-big whale—in this cozy board book celebration of love.
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If You Were My Valentine
by Charles Ghigna, Lynn Plourde
A heart-shaped board book with Velcro closure and ribbons provides a Valentine's Day look at many things that go perfectly together, such as a kite with string and a scoop of ice cream with a cone.
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Halloween Night
by Charles Ghigna, Marjorie Dennis Murray, Elizabeth Hatch, Adam McCauley
'Twas Halloween night, Tand all through the house, Every creature was stirring, including the mouse . . .
The witch is cooking. Banshees are singing. The goody bags are oozing with ooey, gooey snacks. Everyone's warming up for the best Halloween party ever.
Get ready for a frighteningly fun time, because you're invited!
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Halloween Night
by Charles Ghigna, Marjorie Dennis Murray, Elizabeth Hatch, Adam McCauley
They all come out on this Halloween night--a diving bat, a hooting owl, an inky black cat, a ghost-costumed child, a regular old dog--and each one contributes to a chain of events that transforms a little mouse.
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Halloween Night
by Charles Ghigna, Marjorie Dennis Murray, Elizabeth Hatch, Adam McCauley
This collection of 21 silly, funny, just slightly scary poems about witches, monsters, pumpkins, gargoyles, and trick-or-treating will elicit delighted giggles from children aged 4 to 8 who are just beginning to discover the traditions and lore of Halloween. With such titles as I'm Not Afraid,” Witch Way,” Sick or Treat,” and What to Wear on Halloween?” it's destined to become a read-aloud favorite.
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Animal Trunk: Silly Poems to Read Aloud
A collection of simple poems about such animals as donkeys, cows, giraffes, monkeys, kittens, and goats
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The Alphabet Parade (Learning Parade)
Iguanas, pandas, tigers too! Its a letter parade just for you!
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Raindrops Fall All Around (Springtime Weather Wonders)
April showers bring May flowers! Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with furry and feathery friends to experience springtime rain.
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A Windy Day in Spring (Springtime Weather Wonders)
Feel that springtime breeze? Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with adorable animals frolicking in the springtime wind.
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Sunshine Brightens Springtime (Springtime Weather Wonders)
Who doesn't love springtime sun? Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with furry and feathery friends to experience spring sunshine.
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Hail to Spring! (Springtime Weather Wonders)
Springtime weather can bring big storms. Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with furry and feathery friends to experience springtime hail.
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Love Poems
by Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Ghigna, Bertolt Brecht
Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!"
Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.
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Love Poems
by Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Ghigna, Bertolt Brecht
In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversial writers.Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works.
From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered.
Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems expresses notions of love in ways that are delightfully unexpected. Articulating in sensuous verse what we know only instinctively, Nikki Giovanni once again confirms her place as one of our nations's most distinguished poets and powerful truth-tellers. In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, starting with her explosive early years in the Black Rights Movement, Nikki Giovanni has earned a reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Her mind-speaking work has made her a universal favorite and a number-one best-seller.The love poems-the revolutionary "Seduction," the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet," and the tender "My House" to name just a few-are among the most beloved of all Nikki Giovanni's works. Now, Love Poems brings together these and other favorites with over twenty new poems. Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems will once again confirm Nikki Giovanni's place among the country's most renowned poets and truth tellers.
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Love Poems
by Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Ghigna, Bertolt Brecht
An historic publication in which the legendary German poet and dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros. Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, among so many other works. However, Brecht was also a hugely prolific and eclectic poet, producing more than 2,000 poems during his lifetime―indeed, so many that even his own wife, Helene Weigel, had no idea just how many he had written.
"A thieving magpie of much of world literature," the full scope and variety of his poetic output did not become apparent until after his death. Now, the English-speaking world can access part of his stunning body of work in Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental undertaking by award-winning translators David Constantine and Tom Kuhn to translate Brecht's poetic legacy into English. Love Poems collects his most intimate and romantic poems, many of which were banned in German in the 1950s for their explicit eroticism.
Written between 1918 and 1955, these poems reflect an artist driven not only by the bitter and violent politics of his age but, like Goethe, by the untrammeled forces of love, romance, and erotic desire. In a 1966 New Yorker article, Hannah Arendt wrote of Brecht that he had "staked his life and his art as few poets have ever done." In these 78 poems, we see Brecht's astonishing and deeply personal love poems―including 22 never before published in English―many addressed to particular women, which show Brecht as lover and love poet, engaged in a bitter struggle to keep faith, hope, and love alive during desperate times.
Featuring a personal foreword by Barbara Brecht-Schall, his last surviving child, Love Poems reveals Brecht as not merely one of the most famous playwrights of the twentieth century but also one of its most fiercely creative poets.
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Love Poems
by Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Ghigna, Bertolt Brecht
Twenty-one heartfelt verses speak of love and devotion in this gift-sized book of poetry. All of the poems are dedicated to the poet's wife, but husbands and lovers, too, will appreciate the tender sentiment and care of these sweet thoughts. The slim hardcover is a fitting "little something extra" for an anniversary, birthday, or just-because gift, and will match any bouquet or box of chocolates.
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Love Poems
by Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Ghigna, Bertolt Brecht
Twenty-one heartfelt verses speak of love and devotion in this gift-sized book of poetry. The poems are dedicated to the poets wife, but others will appreciate the tender sentiments expressed. The perfect gift for special occasions or everyday thoughtfulness.
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Love Poems
by Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Ghigna, Bertolt Brecht
Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
An historic publication in which the legendary German poet and dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros. Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, among so many other works. However, Brecht was also a hugely prolific and eclectic poet, producing more than 2,000 poems during his lifetime―indeed, so many that even his own wife, Helene Weigel, had no idea just how many he had written.
"A thieving magpie of much of world literature," the full scope and variety of his poetic output did not become apparent until after his death. Now, the English-speaking world can access part of his stunning body of work in Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental undertaking by award-winning translators David Constantine and Tom Kuhn to translate Brecht's poetic legacy into English. Love Poems collects his most intimate and romantic poems, many of which were banned in German in the 1950s for their explicit eroticism.
Written between 1918 and 1955, these poems reflect an artist driven not only by the bitter and violent politics of his age but, like Goethe, by the untrammeled forces of love, romance, and erotic desire. In a 1966 New Yorker article, Hannah Arendt wrote of Brecht that he had "staked his life and his art as few poets have ever done." In these 78 poems, we see Brecht's astonishing and deeply personal love poems―including 22 never before published in English―many addressed to particular women, which show Brecht as lover and love poet, engaged in a bitter struggle to keep faith, hope, and love alive during desperate times.
Featuring a personal foreword by Barbara Brecht-Schall, his last surviving child, Love Poems reveals Brecht as not merely one of the most famous playwrights of the twentieth century but also one of its most fiercely creative poets.
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A Fury of Motion
Think poems are for sissies and grandmothers? Then check Charles Ghigna's engaging new book of verse, A Fury of Motion. With style, humor, and passion, Ghigna has created a world in which adolescents and teenagers, especially boys, will find empathy and refuge. In forty-six poems, the poet delivers a hearty mix of verse that conveys the power at the line of scrimmage, the "lost boys" of hunting season, the threat of loneliness, the clarity of autumn, and the silliness of science. Here's a thoroughly appealing book that will attract those teens who believe poetry is far beneath or beyond them.
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A Fury of Motion, A: Poems for Boys
Think poems are for sissies and grandmothers? Then check Charles Ghigna's engaging new book of verse, A Fury of Motion. With style, humor, and passion, Ghigna has created a world in which adolescents and teenagers, especially boys, will find empathy and refuge. In forty-six poems, the poet delivers a hearty mix of verse that conveys the power at the line of scrimmage, the "lost boys" of hunting season, the threat of loneliness, the clarity of autumn, and the silliness of science. Here's a thoroughly appealing book that will attract those teens who believe poetry is far beneath or beyond them.
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Strange, Unusual, Gross & Cool Animals (An Animal Planet Book)
by Charles Ghigna, ANIMAL PLANET
Animal Planet presents the ickiest, stickiest, blobbiest, and oddest animals in the world!
Did you know that an archerfish can spit water up to 16 feet? Or that the giant weta is the world's largest and heaviest insect? Animal Planet's fascinating exploration of animal oddities introduces young animal lovers to some of the most astonishing, gorgeous, and obscure animals in the world-including some brand new discoveries! Packed with more than 200 vibrant photographs and fun facts about animals with unusual behaviors, strange appearances, and remarkable stats, this deluxe gift book is perfect for reluctant readers or anyone who loves totally gross and amazing animals.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of books in the Animal Bites series benefits the principal partners of R.O.A.R. (Reach Out. Act. Respond.), Animal Planet's initiative dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our communities and in the wild.
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Stop, Drop, and Roll! (Fire Safety)
by Charles Ghigna, Drew Temperante
What should you do if flames get on your clothes? Stop, drop, and roll! This sing-along picture book will make kids want to practice this life-saving skill over and over again. Young readers will feel like heroes as they sing along to this catchy song about fire safety. This paperback book comes with online music access.
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Southern Bred: Poems
Discover the captivating allure of the Deep South through the haunting and powerful verses of one of today's most accomplished poets.
Southern Bred is a haunting, powerful collection of gothic poems that captivate and transport the reader into the heart and soul of the Deep South. Each poem offers a glimpse into its mystery and enchantment, drawing you in with a blend of beauty and darkness. In the style of a memoir in verse, it showcases Ghigna's southern soul and his tender, yet piercing language, and affirms his place as one of the finest poets of our time.
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Animal Planet: Strange, Unusual, Gross, & Cool Animals
Packed with more than 200 vibrant photographs and fun facts about animals with unusual behaviors, strange appearances, and remarkable stats, this book is perfect for readers who love totally gross and amazing animals.
Did you know that a star-nosed mole can tell when earthquakes are coming? Or that the rosy wolfsnail moves three times faster than other snails? Full of fun facts like these, Animal Planet: Strange, Unusual, Gross, & Cool Animals will introduce young animal lovers to some of the most interesting animals in the world! Discover that no matter how strange, unusual, or gross these animals appear, each one plays a vital part in supporting its ecosystem. Packed with more than 200 beautiful photographs, this book is perfect for readers who love incredible animals.
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