Helen Plum Library

"A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin--the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her--transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest "object visualizers" like Grandin herself,...

"Play a matching game, build a puzzle, or do both! Vibrant illustrations encourage color and dinosaur recognition and building a giant puzzle adds to the fun. With three different levels of play Match Up games are perfect for all ages."--

This book is designed to help the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills. It includes updates based on recent research about the brain's plasticity and the emerging significance of right-brain functioning. It offers new tools for identifying and solving life problems with the visual-thinking skills acquired through...

High-contrast black-and-white art for babies who are beginning to look and learn

"This title in the series will play around with your ideas of perspective and space! Learn about hybrid illusions, ambigrams, and impossible shapes and structures, and make your own versions of these incredible illusions."--Amazon.com

Crocodile Creek color city early learning puzzle will teach a toddler all about color! The insert acts as a "can you find?" activity to find all the different shapes within the puzzle.

"Furry often means soft-and that means many little hands want to touch it! Dogs are furry. Stuffed bears are furry. Hats and coats can be furry too! In this book, readers visually recognize the soft texture one would describe as "furry" as well as the word "furry" through repetition in the text. Full-color photographs directly correlate to the many examples given in the text, aiding reading comprehension. Complete sentences help readers practice fluency...

Visual writing can teach you how to organize your thoughts for effective writing and communication with word webs, maps, flow charts, Venn diagrams, sequential charts, plot diagrams, sample topics, model essays, and more!

Learn to recognize different fruits and colors. Includes pineapple, strawberry and grapes. Develops eye-had coordination, visual perception and problem solving skills.

"Little observers can search for lots of interesting things in this detailed and colorful 40-piece puzzle. First, put the jigsaw puzzle together and explore what’s growing, then search for the objects in the picture frame. Can you find them all?" --