This story is about Mrs. Muggles and a young Metis girl named Willow. Mrs. Muggles and Willow love to read. Willow likes to buy fancy glasses for Mrs. Muggles to wear when she reads. Be sure to check out the quiz on the last page of the story showing all the cool, fancy glasses Mrs. Muggles and her friends wear. Balanced text and illustrations make this a good choice for a read-aloud story at the Early Years level. Children can identify with a special relationship between a child and their pet.

Mrs. Muggle searches for her lost pet bird whom she trained to say "I love you". Features gatefold pages.

"Miss Muggles is a Westland Highland Terrier with a giant heart and a charming personality who is visiting a senior citizen home with her family. Soon, she charms all the residents with her silly antics" (publisher).

Journey through every Hogwarts professor's teaching style. - Can a werewolf teach effective lessons about monsters? - Will prophecies of death put a damper on your class environment? - Can a wizarding celebrity learn to put his students before himself? - Is the Dark Lord on the back of your head technically your co-teacher? Education books are often filled with stories of success, charity and perfection. But they fail to capture the true nature of teaching-it's messy. In The Magical Teachers of Harry Potter, you'll take a journey through every Hogwarts professor's teaching style and compare their experiences with the successes and-more importantly-the failures teachers experience inside a muggle classroom. This is where analyzing fictional characters gives a distinct advantage. Inside these pages are lessons from teachers you won't find in any other education book, including a half-giant who is too insecure to share his passion for magical creatures, a ghost who puts students to sleep, a Death Eater who gives surprisingly great career advice and a toad-like woman who abuses her students. What better way to grow as a teacher than to learn from these familiar professors' strengths and weaknesses? But this book is not just for educators. Any Harry Potter fan can appreciate reading more about the Hogwarts teachers who have already taught us so much. Harry's professors show us there isn't just one spell you can cast to become a perfect teacher-every day muggle teachers of all kinds bring true magic into their classrooms.

Originally published as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Philipps-Universiteat Marburg, 2006.

The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life — and very possibly his death. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata