Little Susie has a life-changing experience, when she attends the Beatification Mass for Father Solanus Casey, at Ford Fild, in Detroit. An amazing spiritual experience has a profound influence on her future, which her doting parents could never have predicted.Based on a true story, at least in part. The Beatification Mass happened very much as Susie experienced it. The author, Debbie Barry, was so moved by her participation in this historic Mass, that she had to express it. "An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints. An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin. Indulgences may be applied to the living or the dead.” -- Catechism of the Catholic Church (http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P4G.HTM)

The Plenary Indulgence

Children's Books

Barry, Debbie

Literature & Fiction

Independently published

On Halloween night, two teens enter the home of an ancient recluse. No one has seen the woman in many years, but the children are welcomed warmly enough. They should have remembered not to enter strange house ... especially on Halloween.This Halloween story contains some surprising twists, which will keep teens and adults turning pages, right to the end of the tale. Set in the 19802, in rural Vermont, the story is uncluttered by Smart phones of iPhones, video games, or other digital media. The teenage heroes might have been glad of a cell phone, if the technology existed. Although spooky, the story is suitable even for many readers in upper elementary grades, and will provide pleasure to young adults and more mature readers.

The Kellogg House

Flying Lessons

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

How and when children acquire the basic and essential rules of English morphology and syntax are questions that have been explored for decades.   While there are no final conclusions about precisely how and when this happens, many researchers have worked to describe the process in terms that apply to most children most of the time.  This paper examines the acquisition of morphological rules for English nouns, verbs, and adjectives, focusing on native speakers of English who are exposed to English during what is known as the critical period of language acquisition.   This paper will create a dialogue among several extant articles on the subject, synthesizing prior research to create a description of the patterns of morphological rules acquisition in English language children.  It is expected that the literature will reveal that children are able to extend rules of English morphology to novel nouns and verbs, but are unable to extend rules of English morphology to novel  adjectives, and have greater facility with regular forms of words than with irregular forms of words in the given groups.

Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax in Children

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Originally published in 1744, and republished in 1813, this book contains familiar nursery rhymes with unfamiliar variations, as well as nursery rhymes that are nearly forgotten.Parents Note: 18th Century nursery rhymes were not as pretty and delicate as are modern rhymes. Some language and images may be disturbing for some readers. Please read these rhymes with your child, and explain historic changes.The original text begins:Dear Nurse, YOUR diligence and tenderness in bringing up my children, will always command my utmost endeavours to serve you. And as I cannot but approve, so I recommend this your laudable design, of compiling a Collection of Songs, so fit for the capacities of Infants, both in words and tunes, by which they are often lull'd to rest, when cross, and in great pain. The first Songs are very suitably compos'd for a Baby, but pray be careful, not to simg them too loud; lest you frighten the child, when you design to lull it to sleep, or divert it; for you know, great care ought to be observed as to the early sense of children, some arriving to a knowledge, and notice of animals and their sounds, much earlier than others. And now I am speaking of frights, I will recommend a method that is very useful, to prevent them in some cases, such as in making them familiar with domestic, or other animals, as the Dog, Cat, Horse, Cow, &c. by persuading them to stroke, or touch them, as they happen to fall in their way, which will make them as they grow up, bold in their carriage, to all such creatures, otherwise timorous to a misfortune, But this in particular, I insist on, above all others, that you never mention a Bull Beggar, Tom Poker, Raw Head and Bloody Bones, &c. lest you make such frightful impressions on their tender minds, as may never be eradicated Likewise, as many of the following songs while the Nurses are singing them, are attended with dancing, or exercismg infants, I seriously intreat all who have the care of children, not to swing them by the arms with their heels backwards, lest they dislocate their Backs, which has ruined many, a fine child. I hope your experienced sister Nurses will not be ispleased, as my design is not to direct them but as it very often happens, that young girls are entrusted with the care of children, I think these precautions and songs may be of use to them, as they have been to, Yours, &e.Within are the original nursery rhymes and many original woodcuts, which may not be as familiar as you expect!A Description of the Original 1744 Book, From the British Library Collections:"This is the earliest surviving collection of nursery rhymes. There is evidence that Volumes I and II were advertised for sale in early 1744, but no copies of the first volume are still in existence, and only two copies of this second volume are known to have survived. The book represents one of the very first attempts to make books in which children would delight. It has been carefully designed to appeal to its young target audience - it is satisfyingly small and child-sized at 3 x 1#65533; inches; it includes an illustration, in alternating red and black ink, on each page; and the rhymes it contains are great fun."Many of these 39 rhymes are still familiar to children today, such as 'Bah, Bah, a black sheep' and 'Girls and Boys, Come out to play', 'Lady Bird, Lady Bird' and 'Hickere, Dickere, Dock'. Others have been forgotten - perhaps due to their frank and earthy nature. 'Piss a Bed', for instance, is a rhyme about bed-wetting. Evidently toilet humour has been popular with young children for centuries, although this is rarely acknowledged in histories of children's culture."The author is described as 'Nurse Lovechild'. Only one real name appears on the book's title page: Mary Cooper who is said to have sold the book. Cooper was the widow of the publisher Thomas Cooper." - See more at: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/tommy-thumbs-pretty-song-book#sthash.x8HL4b5E.dpuf

Tommy Thumb's Song-Book: For. All Little Misters And Misses

Classics

“Peter Piper, without Pretension to Precocity or Profoundness, Puts Pen to Paper to Produce these Puzzling Pages, Purposely to Please the Palates of Pretty Prattling Playfellows, Proudly Presuming that with Proper Penetration it will Probably, and Perhaps Positively, Prove a Peculiarly Pleasant and Profitable Path to Proper, Plain and Precise Pronunciation. “He Prays Parents to Purchase this Playful Performance, Partly to Pay him for his Patience and Pains; Partly to Provide for the Printers and Publishers; but Principally to Prevent the Pernicious Prevalence of Perverse Pronunciation.” Parents and children alike will delight at this recreation of the 1836 book that launched the famously popular Peter Piper on his career of picking pickled peppers by the peck. Along with his alliterative companions, Peter Piper provides a full alphabet of challenging tongue twisters, which will still appeal to the current generation. Illustrated with digital reproductions of the original woodcuts, this is a book every family will enjoy.

Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation

This little book is a reproduction of the work published in 1866. The interior illustrations are digital reproductions of the originals, and will bring pleasure to the children and adults who delight in the nursery rhymes that inspire their imaginations with the traditions and culture of Old England, and hint at the history of that ancient country. From the introduction: "Gammer Gurton's Garland, or the Nursery Parnassus," was originally issued at Stockton, as a small twopenny brochure, in 32mo, without a date, "printed by and for R. Christopher." Sir Harris Nicholas says it appeared in the year 1783, "one of the most prolific of Ritson's pen." Haslewood is of opinion that it appeared about the same period as "The Bishopric Garland, or Durham Minstrel," which was printed at Stockton for the same R. Christopher in 1784. "Gammer Gurton's Garland" was again printed, with additions, 1809, in 8vo. This little work, a great favourite with those for whose amusement it was compiled, has been more than once reprinted since. The present edition has been very carefully executed, and rendered complete by the addition of an index."The impression has been limited to one hundred copies small paper, and twelve copies large paper."Glasgow, mdccclxvi."Caution to parents: The nursery rhymes and songs in this book were written for the children of the 18th and 19th Centuries; 21st Century children may be unsettled or disturbed by some of the images in the rhymes. Parents should read these nursery rhymes with their children, and help them to understand the history, traditions, and cultures of those times.

Gammer Gurton's Garland

The republication of the 1833 edition of these delightful nursery rhymes, filled with digital reproductions of the original illustrations, will delight children and parents alike. The rhymes contain hints of the history and culture of 18th and 19th Century England, and overflow with generations of tradition. Read these nursery rhymes with your children, to keep alive the love of literature, and to help them develop skills in reading and speaking. You will find within riddles, stories, alphabets, counting games, and lullabies. “HEAR WHAT MA’AM GOOSE SAYS!: My dear little Blossoms, there are now in this world, and always will be, a great many grannies besides myself, both in petticoats and pantaloons, some a deal younger to be sure; but all monstrous wise, and of my own family name. These old women, who never had chick nor child of their own, but who always know how to bring up other people’s children, will tell you with very long faces, that my enchanting, quieting, soothing volume, my all-sufficient anodyne for cross, peevish, won’t-be-comforted little bairns, ought to be laid aside for more learned books, such as they could select and publish. Fudge! I tell you that all their batterings can’t deface my beauties, nor their wise pratings equal my wiser prattlings; and all imitators of my refreshing songs might as well write a new Billy Shakespeare as another Mother Goose—we two great poets were born together, and we shall go out of the world together. “No, no, my Melodies will never die, “While nurses sing, or babies cry.” Caution to parents: The nursery rhymes and songs in this book were written for the children of the 18th and 19th Centuries; 21st Century children may be unsettled or disturbed by some of the images in the rhymes. Parents should read these nursery rhymes with their children, and help them to understand the history, traditions, and cultures of those times.

The Only True Mother Goose's Melodies

The big Book of Nursery Rhymes

This republication of "The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes," newly arranged to best display the rhymes and their original illustrations, while maintaining the original pagination, is intended to reintroduce the nursery rhymes of a century past to the children of today. Nursery rhymes carry fragments of the history, culture, religion, and ideas of the 15th or 16th through the 19th Centuries, which should be preserved and passed on to new generations. Parents and children will love reading these rhymes, and will delight in the wonderful illustrations.Originally Edited by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Published by Blackie and Son, Ltd., London, 1920.From the Introduction:"The very title, Nursery Rhymes, which has come to be associated with a great body of familiar verse, is in itself sufficient indication of the manner in which that verse has been passed down from generation to generation. Who composed the little pieces it is, save in a few cases, impossible to say: some are certainly very old and were doubtless repeated thousands of times before their first appearance in print. References to certain favourites may be found in the pages of the dramatists of Elizabeth's time."Attempts are sometimes made to read into these Rhymes a deeper significance than the obvious and simple one which has accounted for their enduring popularity in the Nursery, but this volume has no concern with such profound interpretations, any more than have the little people who love the old jingles best."Students divide our rhymes into narrative pieces, historical, folk-lore, game rhymes, counting-out rhymes, jingles, fragments, and so forth, but for the children for whom and by whom they are remembered, and for whose sake they are here collected and pictured anew, they are just-Nursery Nursery Rhymes."Caution to Parents: Nursery rhymes that were acceptable for children of the 19th Century might prove confusing or unsettling for children of the 21st Century, so far removed in tiome from the manners and issues of that time; parents are encouraged to read these rhymes with their children.

The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes

Children love reading this additive nursery rhyme, with its longer and longer repetitive sentences. The original Mother Goose rhyme is adapted for modern children, with a few additions and changes. The colorful illustrations help children remember and connect with the verses as the story unfolds. Nursery rhymes help children build early learning skills and vocabulary, and the rhythm of the rhymes helps children remember what they have learned. Nursery rhymes carry the history, culture, and traditions of the English from the misty, distant past to the present, and help children learn and understand ideas that have been taught to English-speaking children for centuries. Reading these rhymes with parents and caregivers, who can explain new words and ideas to young learners, helps children form personal connections that last a lifetime. The legally-blind author and illustrator created the illustrations in much the same way young children would draw similar pictures: with bold lines, simple shapes, bright colors, and minimal details, using wide-tipped colored markers on paper. They result is solidly cheerful, old-school illustrations that resonate with young aspiring artists. The bold lines and strong colors allow Debbie to draw her own illustrations from her wheelchair, despite her profound vision loss, providing an example to children young and old that handicaps do not meant helplessness, and do not need to stop a person from doing normal – or even amazing – things!

This is the House that Jack Built

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