Douglas Evans

In nine stories about the peculiar happenings at W. T. Melon Elementary, Roger is granted three wishes by a chalk dust genie, tidy Emily meets the Messy Desk Pest, and more. Reprint.

The Classroom at the End of the Hall

Elevator Family

This collection of nine short stories presents episodes of education gone awry.

Math rashes and other classroom tales

Apple Island, or The Truth about Teachers

In a small cozy cottage on the cold South Pole lives a tall, skinny man with a bushy black beard. His name is Anta Claus. Ten-year-old Carol Snow travels with Anta Claus throughout the US delivering appropriate gifts to children on Anta's Naughty List. Along the way, she learns what it takes to switch from Anta's list onto the Nice List Santa Claus carries.

Anta Claus of Antarctica

London calling at Christmastime! (revised edition 12/14) A display window at Harrods Department Store! A red telephone booth! The London Eye! All those small, cozy places for the Wilsons to stay! But after some royal heroics, they end up staying in the guardhouse outside Buckingham Palace. Only the best!

The Elevator Family Goes Abroad

A lonely girl learns the mystery of a sixteeth-century village she discovers in the coastal mountains of Oregon, a village filled with children playing games. A theme park? A medieval faire? No, it's much more than that!

Children's Games

They perch on the streetlight at the corner of College and Ashby. Estelle is polite and tidy. Del puts the "pig" in pigeon. Somehow these birds manage to get along.

the story of two pigeons

Del & Estelle

Meet Blanco, the Last Lighthouse Giant Ages ago, giants arrived on the coastlines of the world. They built tall round houses on the dark headlands. Out their high windows they shone bright lanterns to guide ships safely past their homes. Blanco is the last of the lighthouse giants. From sunset to sunrise he shines his fish-oil lantern from his house on Cape Humbug, to aid steamer ships along the Oregon coast. Jenny Hughes, age ten, is Blanco’s friend. Jenny lives with her father, Jacob, on the Hughes Dairy Ranch below Cape Humbug. Each day Jenny and her father bring Blanco a kettle of clam chowder for his daily meal. Jenny teaches Blanco reading and writing. In turn, the lighthouse giant teaches Jenny, who wishes to become a marine scientist, the ways of the ocean and its creatures. Blanco’s job is threatened when a conman, Professeur Poisson, arrives in Port Beaver, hoping to replace the giant with a first-order Fresnel lens and modern machinery. Can Jenny help save the giant’s lighthouse job? A tough task considering the entire town is against her.

The Last Lighthouse Giant

Chitram Lutchman

Waddah Shihab Ghanem Al Hashemi

Rohanie Maharaj

Developing and maintaining a disciplined management system provides any organization with a blueprint for exceptional performance and success. Indeed, for larger multinational corporations, a management system is a critical component for sustainable growth and performance management. In this book, the authors discuss a series of fundamentals for creating an operationally excellent management system (OEMS). The book also examines the business performance impact of an OEMS across leading gas and oil organizations, such as Exxon Mobil, BP, Suncor, and Chevron. In 7 Fundamentals of an Operationally Excellent Management System, the authors discuss each fundamental in detail and provide the supporting training and workshop materials that are essential for integrating these fundamentals into the business processes of the organization. The seven fundamentals identified by the authors provide a sequential approach for developing and executing an OEMS across any organization. Integrating sound organizational and business practices with personnel and process safety management principles, the book is an invaluable resource for organizations seeking operational discipline and excellence. Well-supported with graphics and practical examples, the book provides a simple pathway for an organization to evolve its management system into an OEMS designed to reduce workplace incidents and improve business performance on a sustainable basis. The management system principles discussed in the book are intended for the business leader who is motivated to transition his or her organization from ordinary, through best in class, to an organization of world-class stature and performance.

7 Fundamentals of an Operationally Excellent Management System

Ramesh Sharma

The continued prevalence of major incidents (most recently the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill) and preponderance of workplace fatalities and injuries as well as Process Safety Management (PSM) Incidents, globally, begs the question: why do incidents continue to occur in today’s technologically advanced era? More importantly, with 80-85 percent of incidents being repeated, the more obvious questions are: Why do organizations fail to learn from prior incidents internal to the business? Why do organizations fail to learn from their peers and other same industry players? Why do organizations fail to learn from the incidents and experiences of other industries? Process Safety Management: Leveraging Networks and Communities of Practice for Continuous Improvement provides a road map organizations can use to identify and setup critical networks for preventing catastrophic incidents and for sharing knowledge in an organized manner within the organization to enhance business performance. The book helps organizations establish centers of excellence by activating networks for generating best practices and practical solutions to workplace business, and safety challenges. The book covers the full range of activation of networks including identifying members, defining goals and objectives, and prioritizing work through leadership and stewardship of networks. It addresses all elements of effective safety management and includes simple, easy-to-follow processes that bring about lasting changes to workplace safety. It also highlights the health and safety needs of both Generation X and Generation Y who currently inherit the workplace but are very different in learning behaviors and experience levels. In a thin margins business environment characterized by scarce resources, operational discipline and excellence drives stakeholder confidence and corporate performance. Detailing the practical application of tested principles and practices, this book provides a simple path forward for organizations to recognize the benefits of networks and to proactively establish and support them within organizations to generate continuous and sustained improvement in work practices, procedures, and business performance.

Leveraging Networks and Communities of Practice for Continuous Improvement

Process Safety Management

The Pixel Corps of Discovery has been sent out to find the source of the excess CO2 in the atmosphere. But the Pixel's plane crash landed in a strange world, on the desktop of fourth-grader Faith Singer. Being one millimeter tall, the Pixel family--Speck, Dotty, Bitty, Nano, and Grandpa Grain--must take a long, perilous journey to escape...through the inside of the desk and out the bottom.

Journey to the Bottom of the Desk

The Pixels

Luke Dellar, age twelve, is weary of his flip-flop life. He flies to his father’s house in San Diego one month and back to his mother’s house in Seattle the next. He’s even more tired of taking pills for his hyperactivity that has worsened since his parent’s divorce. A solution to his flip-flopping, pill-popping life? Run away and hike the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2650 mile, five-month journey from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.

Thru Hiker

Every kid's dream is to be named Most Valuable Player. But how many ever dream that the game is a race around the world (no flying allowed) in just forty days? That's the challenge Adam faces in the Great Global Game. As the player for the Magellan Voyage Project, he competes against others for a four-million-dollar prize! Trackers with blowguns and a nefarious baron don't make things easy.

Magellan Voyage Project

MVP*

"Only a bedbug knows how it goes while you doze." That's the motto of the three bedbugs who live in Irene's four-poster bed. One night, when the moon is particularly bright, Irene meets this helpful trio, who tell her about her nighttime visitors--the Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, the Nice Dream Man, Night Mare, and the Boogeyman--and how the bedbugs protect her from the mayhem, mischief, and mishaps that can happen while she sleeps.

Bedbugs

The tightly-knit Elevator Family In New York City! Walter, Winona, Winslow, Whitney Wilson, and their scruffy, gray dog, Cat, have been invited to the Big Apple to appear on the Not Too Late Show! Where does the Elevator Family choose to stay? In perhaps the most famous elevator of all, the one that goes up to the eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building.

The Elevator Family Does the Big Apple

A lipogram book for boys and girls! This book contains not a solitary E! A financial crisis! Cut costs! With dough running low and programs costing too much at his 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!

a lipogram novel

Noe School

Silly poems from the Classroom at the End of the Hall

Cozy Up to the Whiteboard

Meet the Special, the school superheroes and supersheroes--Jump Rope, Ace+, Spitball, Noise, and Gold Star. We’re glad they are at our school. This time the Specials do battle with Dr. TT, a former school principal who attempts to take control of the local school board and become School Board Emperor.

Douglas Evans

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