Getting into "a good kind of trouble!" This fourth book in the Hello, My Name is Bunny! series finds Bunny in Tokyo where her trademark curiosity leads her to escape her apartment, this time in pursuit of new friendships. She instead finds herself whisker-to-whisker with more danger than she'd imagined, including a run-in with an-imposing-looking falcon and two street cat gangs who consider her a "pampered puss" that they'd rather fight than be friends with. It takes all Bunny's c...

Foxes in peril! In this second book in the Hello, My Name is Bunny! chapter book series, Bunny teams up with 10-year-old Lily Hayward, Rocky the lazy tabby cat, and Goldy, the mischievous Labrador puppy on a nighttime adventure to save London's foxes. When Lily faces a confidence crisis spurred by school bullies, Bunny is by her side to help her see that with a positive outlook and smart thinking, you can be unstoppable!This chapter book series for young readers also inclu...

Disaster! Mona Lisa, the world's most famous painting, has been stolen and is being held for ransom by a pair of dastardly art thieves. This third installment in the award-winning Hello, My Name is Bunny! chapter book series brings Bunny together with an ensemble of characters who know what it means to play hard and work hard! Violette, the lovable Jack Russell, Sam the Swallow, Carl the Catfish, and a pair of ridiculously cute rats named Renata and Renoir join forces wit...

Introducing a new framework for teaching and learning literature in secondary schools, this book presents Dialogic Literary Argumentation as an inquiry-based approach to engage students in communicating and exploring ideas about literature. As a process of discovery, Dialogic Literary Argumentation facilitates conversation—"arguing-to-learn"—as a method to support students’ diverse perspectives and engagement with one another in order to develop individual and collective understandings of ...

Meet Bunny Bloom: irrepressible, international feline do-gooder. This first book in the Hello, My Name is Bunny! chapter book series finds a recently adopted Bunny escaping her comfy apartment in a daring attempt to rescue a New York City Central Park carriage horse from its mean owner. Helped by her new friends, Mike the Mouse, Polly the Pigeon, and Peter the Deliveryman, Bunny sets out to prove there's no such thing as impossible!The Hello, My Name is Bunny! cha...

Pastoral work can be stressful, tough, demanding, sometimes misunderstood, and often underappreciated and underpaid. Ministers devote themselves to caring for their congregations, often at the expense of caring for themselves. Studies consistently show that physical health among clergy is significantly worse than among adults who are not in ministry. Flourishing in Ministry offers clergy and those who support them practical advice for not just surviving this grueling profession, but thrivi...