As a peanutrician for the Talking Peanut kids, Dr. Peanut leads a joyful life. But danger looms when he enters the world of peanut-eating giants. Out there, Talking Peanuts need to watch their step. Disguised as an ant one afternoon, Dr. Peanut eludes a hungry squirrel only to be scooped up by two giant kids. After rejecting several doctorish arguments against eating peanuts, the amused children tell him not to worry; they don t eat anything that talks. This playful, diversely populated picture book reassures us that doctors are friendly and urges even peanuts to speak up.

Nutty to Meet You! Dr. Peanut Book #1

Alan Venable

Children's Books

One Monkey Books

Can a somewhat obsessive carpenter bear and a free-spirited tinker alligator actually play a third game of checkers despite their entirely complementary differences? QUOTE: In all of our years of teaching, we've found The Checker Players to be the perfect book for children of all ages. Alan Venable has created two comical characters, who, while competing in a simple game of checkers, find their very friendship at stake. How the carpenter and tinker resolve their differences provides a springboard for endless discussions about the value of respect and compromise. -- Ruth Rath and Mary Fessenden

The Checker Players

An orderly carpenter and a chaotic tinker play a game of checkers, but find it not so easy when two such different creatures try to do even a simple thing together. A great book from which children themselves at school or at home will gather insight into themselves and learn how to tolerate differences and cooperate at having fun. Includes a practical afterword for teachers.

How many concussions should an American high school football star suffer before the coach says, "Enough"? The Westinghouse High School Bulldogs were legendary champs. Their record based on victory at any cost allowed their coach to run clinics on how to turn young bodies to iron. Meanwhile the players, John M. Brewer among them, underwent astonishing brutality and exploitation. A powerful memoir of a dedicated young athlete's growth, pain and triumph over injustice. A moving tale of father and son. Memoirist/historian John M. Brewer is Special Consultant to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art and archivist of the Pittsburgh Courier photographic collection.

The Room

Brewer Jr JR, John M

Biographies & Memoirs

Young twin Sister and Brother journey through snow and mud in search of missing parents. Courage, kindness, loyalty, and magical marionettes help reunite the family and revive an ailing natural world. An eco-family tale for children ages 6 to 10. A dramatic script is also available.

Take Me With You When You Go

As a scientist and peanutrician, Dr. Peanut leads a rich and nutty life. But daily he and his young peanut patients face the dangers of being eaten.  This chapter book introduces and follows the intrepid doctor as he employs science and common sense to befriend threatening giants, find companionship with a neighboring snail, ward off ferocious beasts, and mobilize the talking peanuts to make theirs a safer, more harmonious world.  Excellent early elementary grade reading with engaging illustrations.  Readers will learn to critique some delightful science.  They will also pick up some basic vocabulary from the language of the talking peanuts.  Of the first story in this volume, reviewers have said: "A charming story of friendship" (Children's Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review).  "Delightfully nonsensical" (Small Press Review).  Dr. Peanuts comes from the author of The Checker Players:  "Intelligence and humor.  It has that rare substance" (New York Times Book Review).  "A story that will delight young children" (School Library Journal).

Don't Eat Dr. Peanut: Six Nutty Tales

Literature & Fiction

Venable, Alan

Humor & Satire

Spring 1965. In the wake of Selma, a bill is finally wending through Congress to end the rigged literacy tests and other devices in place since Reconstruction to keep southern blacks out of voting and government. At the same time, Dr. King's non-violent "wild man" Hosea Williams is laying the groundwork for hundreds of students to canvass the south in a summer voting rights project called SCOPE. Two dozen sign up at Brandeis, a vibrant young Boston area college, to work in South Carolina. Late June. The Voting Rights Bill still hung up in Congress, the Brandeis SCOPErs arrive in urban Richland County, soon spreading out to hinterlands in adjoining Kershaw and Calhoun Counties. In each place they confront a powerful mix of intimidation, persisting sanctioned segregation and astonishing poverty. Sheltered in black homes, they place themselves in the service of local leaders in a century's struggle for equal rights. To the kids from Boston, it will be scary, surprising, inspiring, complex; above all rewarding.

Hope's Kids: A Voting Rights Summer

History

Americas

A great home or classroom "thinking win-win" experience at a middle-elementary reading level. "The perfect book for children of all ages. If ever a book promoted tolerance and fair play, this is it." (Mary Fessenden &amp; Ruth Rath, retired middle-elementary teachers) "Intelligence and humor...It has that rare substance." (New York Times Book Review) "Charm and Sense." (New York Magazine) "Will delight young children." (School Library Journal) "Barton's sketches nicely capture the humor in this elementary lesson that two can do better than one." (Publisher's Weekly)

The Checker Players (3rd Edition)

Renowned peanutrician Dr. Peanut ventures out into a peanut-eating world and nearly gets eaten, first by a squirrel and then by two hungry kids. Can he talk his way out of their clutches? The story lets kids know that they can speak up for themselves. Medical centers use this book to reassure children that doctors are friendly. The story also reminds little people to speak up! "A charming story of friendship. Dr. Peanut encounters giants (human children) who may turn him into a snack, but he is delightfully surprised.... Cute drawings." - Reviewer's Choice, Children's Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review "Delightfully nonsensical, this tale will suit every child and adult who appreciates the absurd. Much of the charm of the book is the advice he gives to his young friends, boy and girl, who are wise enough to question some of his conclusions. What civilized conversations they have! The illustrations admirably capture the spirit." - Small Press Review "Plain pea-nutty fun." - Old Schoolhouse Magazine

Nutty to Meet You, Dr. Peanut

Humor

Cricket Witch keeps her own goals in mind as she negotiates with a reticent scarecrow for pumpkins that Cricket and her unruly cronies want to carve on Halloween. A win-win deal hinges on her finding out what the scarecrow secretly might want in exchange. Based on grownup, win-win research. Suggestions included for how to turn the book into thought-provoking fun for elementary students.

The Pumpkin Deal: A Win-Win Halloween

Holidays & Celebrations

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Nutty to Meet You! Dr. Peanut Book #1

The Checker Players

The Checker Players

The Room

Take Me With You When You Go

Don't Eat Dr. Peanut: Six Nutty Tales

Hope's Kids: A Voting Rights Summer

The Checker Players (3rd Edition)

Nutty to Meet You, Dr. Peanut

The Pumpkin Deal: A Win-Win Halloween