If you could live in any room in the school, which would you choose? "Ants in the Band Room" is the story of a troop of ants in search of a suitable home. Both parents and music educators alike found "Ants in the Band Room" educational and inspirational for children, motivating them to ask questions about music and musical instruments while showing that everyone belongs somewhere.

Ants in the Band Room

Laura Podeschi

Children's Books

Bronze Man Books

Dr. Randy Brooks has taught haiku courses, the Global Haiku Tradition and Haiku Writing Roundtable, at Millikin since 1998. The Millikin University Haiku Anthology is a collection of the best of the best haiku by current and former undergraduate students at Millikin University. The anthology includes award-winning haiku and haiku previously published in a wide range of literary journals. It also features new haiku from the Millikin haiku community through an open submissions process. See a daily sample of the haiku in the anthology at Haiku of the Day at the Bronze Man Books web site. The Millikin University Haiku Anthology provides a much-needed collection of contemporary English-language haiku for use in secondary and college level classrooms. While students of all ages enjoy contemporary haiku, Bronze Man Books believes that the haiku published in this anthology resonate with high school and college-age students attempting to learn more about the English-language haiku. The Millikin University Haiku Anthology is the natural consequence of an ongoing celebration of the art of reading and writing haiku at Millikin University over the last 10 years. The haiku in this collection have been born as selected favorites by a variety of readers. Initially, the student writer selected his or her own haiku attempts to be considered for competition, then the best of their attempts were placed into anonymous kukai, where students in classes selected favorites. At the end of the semester, each student writer created a small collection of personal favorites to share with others. And at the end of each semester, I selected a few of the best of each student s haiku to be added to the Millikin University Haiku web site. As evident from the acknowledgements page, editors in the haiku community have selected many of these student haiku to be published in their journals and anthologies. Finally, the editors of this collection read through all of the known and submitted haiku by Millikin University students and alumni to nominate about 1,800 possible haiku for the anthology. All nominated haiku were put into an anonymous alphabetical first-line order, so that the editors could have a year-long final kukai for this anthology seeking out those haiku that all four editors could say yes, this haiku needs to be in the collection. Now, we invite readers to find favorites and to enjoy the art of reading the haiku available in this collection. We invite you to open the gift of insight, feeling, and perception offered by each haiku in the Millikin University Haiku Anthology. Come, open up the haiku inside, and join in the art of reading haiku. Each haiku in this collection awaits your imagined response, anticipates your associations and memories, and hopes you fulfill its promise of insight and significance. Which haiku will come alive and be born though your reading? In addition to reading haiku, the editors hope that you will be motivated to write a haiku to be completed when a reader chooses it as a favorite. The editors invite you to become a co-creator of haiku through the art of reading and writing haiku. We invite you to join in the ongoing celebration of the gift of haiku. Dr. Randy Brooks Millikin University Decatur, Illinois June 18, 2008

Millikin University Haiku Anthology

Emily Evans

Randy Brooks

Melanie McLay

Rick Bearce

OOPS! Did I Say That is a guide to positive support for cancer patients. It is a picture book intended for all ages. Parents, family, friends, and visitors of cancer patients always struggle with what to say to be supportive or encouraging. This book helps all visitors and caregivers to be sensitive to the emotional and psychological challenges. Inspired by her own experience with cancer at the age of 14, Sarah K. Johnson created this book in the hopes of helping the caregivers to relay their genuine concern for a patient.

Oops! Did I say that? A Guide to Positive Support for Cancer Patients

Sarah K. Johnson

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Join seven-year-old Grace on her journey through coping with the loss of her father while learning about the different ways that people grieve the loss of a loved one. In the process of learning about who her father was through the eyes of others, she learns about who she is today because of her father's personality and love. Am I Like My Daddy? is a book designed to help children who are coping with the loss of a loved one. Children are encouraged to express through journaling what may be so difficult to express through everyday conversation. Am I Like My Daddy? teaches about loss through reflection.  Am I Like My Daddy? is an important book in the children's grief genre. Many books in this genre deal with the time immediately after a loved one dies. This book focuses on years after the death, when a maturing child is reprocessing his or her grief. New questions arise in the child's need to fill in those memory gaps.

Am I Like My Daddy?

Marcy Blesy

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Map to the Multiverse

Emma R. Wilson

Alfonso Iannelli was like an Italian Renaissance artist marooned in the twentieth century. Instead of creating altarpieces and carving saints, he put his creative energies in the 1930s 1950s into the design of electric knife sharpeners, coffee makers and drink mixers. With new research and over 200 photographs, drawings and plans, EVERYDAY MODERN: THE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN OF ALFONSO IANNELLI tells the stories of those objects.

Everyday Modern: The Industrial Design of Alfonso Iannelli

Arts & Photography

David Jameson

Graphic Design

<p>While many toilet training books are narrowly prescriptive, LESSONS FROM TOILET SCHOOL provides support to families seeking to better understand the developmental processes of toilet training. Each family's experience is unique and each child's experience is unique. As professionals collaborating with young families, Ann and Claudia have walked with thousands of parents on the journey of toilet training their children. They have listened to a variety of methods, celebrated a myriad of success stories, and marveled over how each family makes this transition in a way that is uniquely their own. Every parent raising a young child eventually asks this question: is my child ready for toilet training? Lessons from Toilet School: A Family-Centered Approach to Toilet Training helps families address this question by looking for signs of readiness in the child. This book recognizes those signs of readiness, but it also explores the bigger picture of your family's experience. How will toilet training your child fit into the life of your busy family? How might it impact relationships? What special considerations will you need to make for your own unique child? Overall, how can you create a plan that makes sense for your child and your family?</p>

Lessons from Toilet School: A Family-Centered Approach to Toilet Training

Ann Coleman Stadtler

Claudia Quigg

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