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Melissa Taylor

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Children's, Comics, Fantasy

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April 2007

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A mother of two girls and an award-winning educator, Melissa Taylor holds a Master’s Degree in Global Education, with expertise in early childhood and elementary education and a focus on literacy and play. She has taught all subjects for the elementary grades and preschool.

Bilingual in English and Spanish, Taylor has taught English as a Second Language, taught Spanish-speaking children in inner-city Denver Public Schools and in the federal migrant program, and served as a literacy trainer in underperforming schools for the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC). She was a four-time consecutive winner of Outstanding Teacher in Douglas County.

Melissa writes about education, learning, children’s literature, technology, and advocacy for p ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 269 ratings · 52 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pinterest Savvy: Strategies, Plans, and Tips to Grow Your Business with Pinterest 3.63 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader 3.73 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tova’s Sweet Solution by Melissa Taylor (Goodreads Author), Aurelie Lise-Anne (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Melissa rated a book it was amazing Tiny Worlds: A Story About Appreciating the Small Things (A Gentle Picture Book That Celebrates Imagination and Grandparent Bonds - For Kids Ages 3-7) by Brittany Cicchese	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The boy loves his Tiny World and Tiny Town at Grandma’s that (like my daughter) he created himself with upcycled materials, paint, and creativity. But Grandma thinks he should play at the park with other kids but the boy finds a tiny world outside in ...more
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Melissa rated a book it was amazing Anyone Else Awake?: A Dawn Chorus by Carmela LaVigna Coyle (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A young girl wakes in the dark of morning in this read-aloud treasure filled with the onomatopoeia of bird songs. As the birds awake for the morning, they speak to each other in a conversational chorus while the sky lightens little by little. Robin, ...more
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A young girl wakes in the dark of morning in this read-aloud treasure filled with the onomatopoeia of bird songs. As the birds awake for the morning, they speak to each other in a conversational chorus while the sky lightens little by little. Robin, ...more
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This is an emotional, must-read true story with immersive sensory details that put readers in the main character's shoes about young Minoru during World War II. First, his father is accused of being a spy for Japan and taken by the FBI. Then his fami ...more
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“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: adult, childhood, children, maturity

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“Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.”
― Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

tags: achievement, children, growth, learning, potential

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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