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Festival Folk: An Atlas of Carnival Customs and Costumes

Forty unusual world festivals and their accompanying costumes are brought to life in this stunning book for people of all ages to enjoy. All around the world, there are festivals that reach back through the sands of time to medieval carnival traditions and beyond. The festivals in this book are often little known outside their locale, and they are all characterized by spectacular costumes and compellingly bizarre rituals. The Jarramplas of Piornal, Spain is a spooky devil character dressed in rags, who is pelted by two tons of turnips every year. In Japan, the Kasedori wear a suit of straw and run barefoot through the snow as villagers douse them in freezing water to protect their houses from fire.

Festivals (Bullfrog Books)

Light a lantern in Taiwan. Paint your face in Mexico. Celebrate festivals around the world with this exciting series. Easy-to-read text and colourful photographs introduce young readers to the nonfiction format, while a diagram and picture glossary reinforce new ideas.

Fetch!

From hardworking German shepherds to high-energy terriers, there are dogs to match the lifestyles and personalities of many people. Fetch! helps future pet owners retrieve basic knowledge about the traits and history of popular dog breeds. Dynamic photos bound off the page, and the text gently instructs young owners in the care and responsibility of pets. At the end of each book is a panel about a famous pop-culture example of the breed, from Snoopy to Toto.

Fibblestax

So begins the delightful fable of Fibblestax, and how he came to be the one who names everything. He has to battle the tricky, red-faced Carr, a man who "gives terrible names to wonderful things." The mayor of their town gives them five things to name, and the final one, "that very strange feeling, a dreamy kind of cheer/the feeling that makes you feel so good when a special friend is near" stumps Carr. But, Fibblestax knows that feeling...With soft, intricately detailed illustrations to accompany the musical text, this book will surely become a special favorite for children of all ages.

Field Trips

Each title in this series introduces readers to a place they may visit as part of a field trip, explaining what they may be able to see and do there, and what they can do to make the trip enjoyable for everyone involved.

Field Trips, Let's Go!

Why wait for the school to organize a field trip? These books are ready for a field trip every day! This beginning reader series takes students to familiar places for behind-the-scenes tours. Read about the people who work there and explore things kids love. Carefully chosen vocabulary blends with site-specific photos for a series of very special trips from the comfort of the couch!

Fierce Creatures

Go face-to-face with some of the world's scariest animals and decide: will you sit and watch, view from afar, or run for your life? The series to engage lovers of fierce and dangerous animals.

Fierce Jobs (Dash! Level 2)

Most people arrive at their tidy desks at 8 am each day, and others jump out of airplanes to rescue others or face violent seas to catch giant fish. Each title in this series will introduce a fierce job, the people who take it on, and what each day might entail. This series is at a Level 2 and is written specifically for emerging readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards

Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate, The-2nd Edition

This enduring tale of independence and family is an unconventional love story with a strong female lead and a pirate with a sensitive side, written by New Zealand3s leading children3s writer and illustrated by one of Japan3s foremost children3s illustrators. The fierce little woman lived in a house at the end of a jetty. She knitted socks in blue and green wool to sell to sailors who had got their feet wet. But when there were no ships at her jetty, she was quite alone. One stormy day, a pirate came to the house on the jetty. He stood on his toes, and starting tap-tap-tapping on the windowTAfter a battle of words through the jetty trapdoor, these two windswept heroes find they are suited after all in a warm story of a carefree family.

FIFA World Cup: The Greatest Matches of All Time

The FIFA World Cup is a global sporting event, drawing more than a billion soccer fans for live and televised matches. In the course of this quadrennial tournament, a few matches have gained fame for their amazing individual play, improbable comeback victories, and surprising wins by underdog teams. These standout World Cup matches have helped to popularize the sport and bring in new fans and players in nations all over the world.