Bøger af Ann Cooper

Dragonflies -- they are dainty but deadly as they dart over ponds and clearings on the hunt for prey. How can they fail to catch the eye with such shimmering rainbow colors? Use this friendly photographic guide to identify and learn more about your striking and impressive insect neighbors.

Remember how simple school lunches used to be? You'd have something from every major food group, run around the playground for a while, and you looked and felt fine. But today it's not so simple. Schools are actually feeding the American crisis of childhood obesity and malnutrition. Most cafeterias serve a veritable buffet of processed, fried, and sugary foods, and although many schools have attempted to improve, they are still not measuring up: 78 percent of the school lunch programs in America do not meet the USDA's nutritional guidelines.Chef Ann Cooper has emerged as one of the nation's most influential and most respected advocates for changing how our kids eat. In fact, she is something of a renegade lunch lady, minus the hairnet and scooper of mashed potatoes. Ann has worked to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms. In Lunch Lessons, she and Lisa Holmes spell out how parents and school employees can help instill healthy habits in children.They explain the basics of good childhood nutrition and suggest dozens of tasty, home-tested recipes for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. The pages are also packed with recommendations on how to eliminate potential hazards from the home, bring gardening and composting into daily life, and how to support businesses that provide local, organic food.Yet learning about nutrition and changing the way you run your home will not cure the plague of obesity and poor health for this generation of children. Only parental activism can spark widespread change. With inspirational examples and analysis, Lunch Lessons is more than just a recipe book¿it gives readers the tools to transform the way children everywhere interact with food.

Tweederick, the mouse faery, was discovered half-frozen in my back garden. He recovered slowly and ever since that night, he has been visiting us to tell us about his daily adventures which are a combination of fact and fiction. This first Tweederick book is the story about his old friend and pirate, Captain Peter Dillon, who is still looking for the Gold mountain with a hidden treasure. He asked Tweederick to join his crew and sail to the other side of the world to find the treasure. There are many things hindering their treasure hunt but most importantly, can Tweederick return home safely by the end of the day?

A heart-warming Christmas adventure where 12-year old Paddy sends his best friends on a quest to solve a riddle and find the German Shepherd, an immortal Wizard. They travel to mystical places hidden between the stones of the old Druid Temple before returning to Paddy. There is magic all around them and Paddy makes one last wish before having to say goodbye forever.

In Bitter Harvest, this knowledgeable chef emerges as a political voice to be reckoned with and her manifesto is a must-read for anyone concerned with health, nutrition and the future of our food.

The story of a Sioux Indian boy and an injured eaglet set in contemporary times serves as a fable about eagles as part of a fragile ecosystem, and encourages the reader's participation in the rest of the book. Through various activities, children will learn the natural history of eagles from a scientific, ethnographic, and environmental perspective. They'll also learn strategies for living in or near areas that eagles inhabit. Ages 8-12