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Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspective
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999
Did Ellen Levine attend PS 177 in Brooklyn from 1946 to 1954
Was Ellen Levine in my elementary school class? If so, we are both authors of many books. We're both 57 or so. If so, you were my friendly classmate at PS 177 or D.A. Boody JHS. Is that you, Ellen? If so, a warm hello from a grandma of five who also writes a lot of ...
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Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child
Ellen Mitchell, Carol Barkin, ...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2005
A MUST READ!!!!
Unfortunately for me, I bought and read this book because I have walked the walk. I lost my son 2 years ago in a car accident. This book touched on everything i've thought, felt, said to myself, said to others and lived through in the past 2 years. It made me know for ...
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Henry's Freedom Box (Caldecott Honor Book)
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Press, 2007
Spare story of one man's struggle against slavery
This story documents the slavery and eventual freedom of one man. Henry and his brothers and sisters work for a good master. However, on his deathbed, the master gives Henry to his son, separating Henry from the rest of his family forever. Henry works well in the ...
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If You Lived With The Iroquois (If You.)
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1999
If You Lived With The Iroquois
Ellen Levine and illustrator Shelly Hehenberger have created a delightful book that takes the young reader into a historical look at life as an Iroquois Indian. The eighty page book is divided into subtitles which concisely tell the story of daily living for the early ...
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If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon (If You.)
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1992
...If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
We are homeschoolers, and are studying U.S. History. We used this book to compliment our studies of the Reconstruction and Reform Period. My children enjoyed the layout, as well as the information. They liked it so well, they usually read ahead of the scheduled ...
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I Hate English! (A Blue Ribbon Book)
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1995
Wonderful book!
I have not run into many children who have felt this way in my short career as an ESOL teacher but students similar to Mei Mei are out there. This book is very helpful to teachers with ESOL students in their classroom who are not trained in TESOL practices. Students ...
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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
Ellen Levine
Putnam Juvenile, 2000
Amazing Read
Many figures and groups of people are marginalized in the study of the Civil Rights Movement. This book is an excellent forum to give voice to the children of the movement. Especially powerful are the stories of students who were among the first to integrate. One ...
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. . . If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
Ellen Levine, Larry Johnson
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1993
An excellent source of UGRR info for children and adults!
As the director of an Underground Railroad museum, I am always looking for clear, concise materials for the public to use. This book is being added to our new education program, for use in elementary schools in our area. The facts are presented in an easy-to-read ...
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If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island (If You.)
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1994
Brings back an almost forgotten era
When my niece (from L.A.) first came to New York, she was seven years old. I took her to the rehabilitated Ellis Island, and she was (for a seven year old) fascinated to learn that her great grandparents along with millions of other immigrants had stepped across that ...
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. . . If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1994
Excellent Introduction to Civil Rights for Elementary ages!
Whenever teachers in our predominantly white elementary school ask me to recommend a title pertaining to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or to African American history, this is one of the first books I suggest for grades 4, 5 and 6.The question and answer format lends ...
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The Tree That Would Not Die
Ellen Levine
Scholastic
Educational and interactive literature.
When I heard a librarian read this book to a group of fourth graders, I believed this librarian threw a great opportunity to use this book as an educational facility for these students and others to come. I am a teacher, and once I heard this book, my heart lit up ...
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Principles And Practice Of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward A Therapeutic Aesthetics
Paolo J. Knill, Ellen G. Levine, ...
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004
Terrific Overview of Expressive Art Therapy
The first chapter in this book is essential to understanding the origins of the intermodial expressive therapy approach. Much to gather and gain from this.
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Anna Pavlova: Genius of the Dance
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Trade, 1995
I thought it was ok
This book was not that great. I exspected alot more pictures about her life and things like that. I do not think that the book did her justice. This young woman acomplished so many things in a short time.
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Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
Ellen Levine
Holiday House, 2002
Hope in the Darkness
Bravery, courage, and selflessness, characteristic of the Danish resistance during WWII, are bright glimpses of hope during a dark period of world history. The history of the Danish resistance is recorded chronologically, with individual rescue stories woven ...
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Up Close: Rachel Carson (Up Close)
Ellen Levine
Puffin, 2008
Great Introduction to Rachel Carson
I ended up checking this book out from the library because it seemed to be the only decent biography on Rachel Carson. I didn't realize until I got home that it was written for middle schoolers. I read it anyway because I hadn't read any biographies on her.
This a ...
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