Some of My Best Friends Are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Pre-School to High School

7 best books like Some of My Best Friends Are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Pre-School to High School (Judith Wynn Halsted): A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, The Snow Goose, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion, Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers and Blessings, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

Author	Nancy Willard
ISBN	0152938222

Surrealism. This book is playful surrealism based on Nancy Willard's love of William Blake's poetry. This book mixes dreams and poetry to come up with a lovely experience to eating stardust with animals as guests at an inn.

It opens with the poem: Tyger, Tyger, burning bright in the forests...

The Snow Goose

Author	Paul Gallico
ISBN	0140299521

Lyrical and touching tale set in WWII, with the climax taking place during Dunkirk. While there's a danger here of crossing over into sentimentality, for me this lovely tale transformed what could have been pat sentiments into something very heartfelt and noble. It's the kind of tale children will...

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

Author

Hugh MacLeod

When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog-gapingvoid.com-and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures.MacLeod has opinions...

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

Author	Pema Chödrön
ISBN	1590300785

Comfortable with Uncertainty offers short, stand-alone teachings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. Gleaned from Pema Chdrn's best-selling books, these passages explore topics of loving-kindness, mindfulness, "nowness," letting go,...

Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers and Blessings

Author	Caitlín Matthews
ISBN	1592330436

Mirroring the ancient formulaic prayers to the elements found in the Celtic tradition, along with the wondrous invocations and declarations of the bards of the Scottish, Irish and Welsh traditions, Celtic Devotional provides a mystical doorway through which the modern person can re-invest their...

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Author	Stephen Grosz
ISBN	0393349322

Echoing Socrates' time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws short, vivid stories from his 25-five-year practice in order to track the collaborative journey of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings behind ordinary...

Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings

Author	Christine Fonseca
ISBN	1618214578

Teaching children how to manage their intense emotions is one of the most difficult aspects of parenting or educating gifted children. Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings provides a much-needed resource for parents and educators for understanding...