Bøker av Douglas Evans

"A fable about finding your bliss"Our Teacher, age ten, rescues a sea lion on a beach in Oregon. As a reward, the sea lion tells Our Teacher about the magical Thinking Cap, a hat when worn reveals a person's calling. In pursuit of the cap, Our Teacher travels around the world and learns his true purpose, what he was meant to do with his life. Along the way, he discovers the attributes he has that will help make him a great teacher. This edition includes 25 AI illustrations. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on links to hear the songs.

They perch daily on streetlights at the corner of College and Ashby. Estelle is polite and tidy, while Del puts the "pig" in pigeon. Somehow these two birds manage to get along. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on link to hear songs.

What's a twist? A short silly story with a surprise or twist at the end.

What's a twist? A short silly story with a surprise or twist at the end.

Captain John Paul Jellyfish has led his fleet across the Atlantic Ocean to America. He doesn't like what he finds there. Follow the adventures of the bravest jellyfish to ever sail the Seven Seas. His fleet's challenge? To rid the Eastern seaboard of the pesky Portuguese men-of-war and make the beaches safe again for summer swimming! A Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on the link to hear the songs.

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. One Christmas Eve, ten-year-old Carol Snow sneaks in Anta's black sleigh and travels with him, delivering appropriate gifts to children on Anta's Naughty List. Along the way, Carol learns what it takes to switch from Anta's list onto the Nice List that Santa Claus carries. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on the links to hear the songs.

The cozy sequel to The Elevator Family. This time the tight-knit Wilson family stays in a toll booth on a bridge crossing the Mississippi River. Fantabulous accommodations! The best place west of the Mississippi, east of the Mississippi, and above the Mississippi. So why are all the people rushing past? What is more, why do all the drivers hand the Wilsons money?Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or clink the links to hear the Elevator Family songs.

How come there are so many unanswered questions about schools? How come school buses are yellow? How come the school year is nine months long? How come there are more women than men teachers? Now come and read how come.

Walter, Winona, Winslow, and Whitney Wilson take the train to the Twin Cities to attend the SMALL (the Society of Minimal and Living Little) Conference. They find the snow and ice-covered lakes to their liking. The small Warming Hut beside the ice-skating rink is a perfect place for them to stay. Better yet, how about the tiny hut they find on the ice of Lake Minnetonka?Book with Tunes. Scan the QR codes to hear the Elevator Family songs!

By the year 2050, scientists say the entire Arctic region including the North Pole will be free of ice. Only one person, fourth-grader Tom Tucker, has asked the question no one else has asked. What will happen to Santa Claus? Santa is in trouble. Global warming has wreaked havoc upon his North Pole home. The toy factory roof leaks. The reindeer barn is flooded, and the snow is too slushy for safe sleigh take-offs. In order to be ready for Christmas Eve, Santa has no choice. He must move. His helpers will build a ship, the Arctic Ark, and from there Captain Claus can prepare for Christmas. A-ho-ho-hoy!Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click the links to hear the songs!

The rousing sequel to Apple Island, or the Truth About Teachers. The Thinking Cap has been stolen and Bradley Zimmerman, by request of the God of Education on Mt. Academy, must take another long and perilous trip to try and retrieve it.

The tightly-knit Elevator Family-Walter, Winona, Winslow, and Whitney Wilson-along with their scruffy, gray dog, Cat, have been invited to the Big Apple to appear on the Not Too Late Show! Where do they 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.Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes to hear the songs.

NASA asks the Wilson family to stay six months at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Mojave Desert. The Wilsons will simulate living on the red planet to see how well a family can work together in a small confined environment. No sweat for this tight-knit family. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes to hear the songs.

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 the 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. Book-with-Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on links to hear the songs.