Thinking Cap

  The Thinking Cap*:          
               *Random thoughts, ideas, and new projects

 Field Guide to Classroom Creatures Coloring Book:  Download  (PDF file)
            For classroom reproduction

The Substitute of Last Resort: (New Novel! Read Chapter Two) There's only one substitute teacher who can handle the "bad class", the fourth-graders at Elemenopy Elementary School! She recently graduated from the SOLR Academy, and she must constantly refer to the BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO SUBSTITUTING, but with the aid of some fancy devices in her canvas backpack, Miss Subway is able to keep this class in line and under control. How sublime!

 The Pixels Book 1: Journey to the Bottom of the Desk  (tiny new series!)
The Pixel Corps of Discovery--Speck, Dot, Nano, Bitty, and Grandpa Grain Pixel-- has landed on a classroom desktop!
  The only way off is to climb through the inside of the desk. But being only 1 mm tall, this is no small task!

Click to view Pixel video (music by D. Evans)

 Children's Games: (Book in progress!)
In 1560 Pieter Brueghel painted this picture of children in a village playing dozens of games.  
How is it possible then that a girl named Loren recently came upon this village while
 wandering in the woods?  What is happening here?  And the grown-ups?  What happened to them?

A, B, See Spot Run!: (New picture book!)

2ndGraders: quotes from a second grade classroom:

 Forty-Nine Ways to Cross Your t's and Dot Your i's:  
Forty-nine samples from the world's largest collection of t crosses and i dots.

W.T. MELON'S WRITERS' WORKSHOP: Lots of writing. Some work. Sorry, no shopping.

Visit Apple Island :

 ANTA CLAUS OF THE SOUTH POLE :  
        Here's the first chapter of the first children's book that I wrote. Oh! Oh! Oh!  PDF file!

NOE SCHOOL: (book that I'm writing now!) A financial crisis! Cut costs! With dough running low and programs costing too much at Noe School, Principal Ouia insists that his staff and pupils must stop using that most popular non-consonant that follows d and is prior to f. That common writing symbol was also cut from this book!

Music by Douglas Evans:

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