Summary: Pig has promised to make pies for everyone, but he doesn't have enough letters to make them. Dog has a magical way to help Pig keep his promise - it's all about the letter S. Frog thinks that in order to build a big rocket he needs big, uppercase letters. But when he needs to rescue the Little Piggies in out space, he learns that r-o-c-k-e-t works as well. All the friends have a ball trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD WSummary: Join Hopkins, Alex, and Leah as they learn everyday signs such as friends, emotions, fruits, vegetables, opposites, and many more. Songs include Can you feel it?, Toy box, Show me a sign, and That tastes good.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Little Hands Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BABSummary: This video teaches babies and parents to communicate at an early age by introducing more than 25 words and signs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Baby Hands Productions 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 419 MYSummary: Alex, Leah, and Hopkins join Rachel Coleman to teach the signs for nature, weather, directions, and more. Songs include A new day, I'm a bug, Starry night, and Tiny hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Little Hands Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BABSummary: "Throughout the world, individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape player to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk. The Baldwin family of Montana put labels all over their house marked with the Miami words for common objects and activities, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 418 BRISummary: Learn the signs for shoe, sock, hat, coat, please, thank you, sorry, car, train, bus, bike, airplane, boat, ball, doll, bear, wash hands, soap, sleep, bath, brush teeth, book, pajamas, blanket. Uses singing, dancing, speaking, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Little Hands Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BABLathey, Nicola
Summary: "An essential guide to language development, from babbling to first words to full sentences, plus early signs of anxiety, autism, or ADHD"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 LATSummary: This video teaches parents to hear exactly what their babies are communicating. Every newborn communicates, and from birth to 3 months uses five distinct sounds that signal hunger, tiredness, need to burp, lower wind/gas and discomfort, based on physical reflex responses. For instance, when hungry a baby will start to suck and the sound produced during this action is the 'word' for hunger. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dunstan Baby Pty. Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.44 DUNSummary: Includes 16 episodes originally broadcast on PBS Kids, designed to help children with letter recognition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Bollinger, Cathy.
Summary: Presents letter sounds as a sing-a-long activity.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia Arts 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a "A Kooky Spooky Halloween," the WordFriends get their share of scares the night before Halloween, when Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks he's a ghost!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2007
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD WSteyns, Lee Ann
Summary: "My first baby signs teaches basic signs that provide families with a way to communicate before babies can talk at all. The picture book format keeps the learning fun while introducing over 40 key American Sign Language (ASL) signs in context- each with their own visual and written guide. Your little one will learn to express their needs, wants, and frustrations with simple gestures-and you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Pauper Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 419 STESedivy, Julie
Summary: "As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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Summary: "We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 KINGarcia, W. Joseph.
Summary: A guide for hearing parents demonstrates how they can teach their hearing infants to communicate with simple sign language gestures before they can speak.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northlight Communications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 GGarcia 1999Summary: Targets preschool-age children, with the main goal being to inspire a love of reading. The theme revolves around WordFriends and WordThings characters and items comprising the letters that spell them in the correct order. The Christmas Star: It's the night before Christmas and FROG needs a star to hang on his Christmas tree. DUCK thinks this will be the perfect present for FROG, and tries to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Sight and Sound Holiday Display, Call number: DVD JUV WORDenworth, Lydia
Summary: "An investigation into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development, and Deaf culture spurred by Lydia Denworth's discovery that her son couldn't hear her lullabies and the family's life-altering decision to givehim a cochlear implant. Lydia Denworth's third son, Alex, was almost two when he was diagnosed with profound and progressive hearing loss. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.89 DENFallon, Jimmy
Summary: "A lot of babies' first words were Dada. However, everything after that was Mama. Readers take a look from a baby's point of view as different animals try to teach their children that there are other words in addition to Mama for familiar objects and activities."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD FALGarcia, W. Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sign2Me 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419 GARSowell, Thomas
Summary: The painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the "normal" time is explored in this book through personal experiences and the findings of scientific research. The author's own experiences as the father of such a child led to the formation of a group of more than fifty sets of parents of similar children. The anguish and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 SOWLaikko, Teresa
Summary: "Are you concerned that your child is not verbalizing? The solution may be as simple as a game. Talking with Your Toddler teaches you how to stimulate speech using everyday play. It makes learning to talk fun and engaging for your child. With proven therapies and easy-to-follow activities, Talking with Your Toddler makes an ideal home companion"--‡cPage 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2016
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Summary: This book takes a child-led approach to encouraging language development. We hope you enjoy discovering more about how language grows and ways you can choose to nourish its development in your child. The main focus in this book is on babies and young children. As it's useful to see the progression of language development throughout all the preschool years, we've included milestones up to age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Finch Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 401 MACGenechten, Guido van
Summary: Some of these animals are not like the others. They look different or do something different from the rest. A playful search and find book about emotions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Pub. 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Golinkoff, Roberta M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999