Books published by Bellissima Publishing

The law is a good thing, and man has been compiling laws and rules in one way or another since time immemorial. This book is meant for California attorneys, but anyone anywhere can enjoy this book, because it is based on a system of right.Everyone loves to hate lawyers and taxes, and people say the only thing you can be sure about is death and taxes; so what this means is people cannot be sure about attorneys. This book attempts to change all that, to change the state of the world, by bringing attention to a few things called morality and integrity.Ms. Cellaneous, The Unknown Attorney, loves right and justice. This is her third book on the law. Her first book, "Everything you never wanted to know About Your Nonprofit Corporation," was used as a textbook in a graduate class in public management at BYU; and this book is written to complement a CLE course she is teaching for Lawline on line as one of their on line professors.This book is informative and serious and fun, and will point out some real life experiences The Unknown Attorney has had in her own law practice. Who is The Unknown Attorney? Turn to the copyright page in this book to find out. This book is about doing what is right, and about following the rules and about defining integrity and justice. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who later became known as Frederick Douglass once said, "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." Fredrick Douglass was born a slave; and with those words, he said it all.

Put together by award winning author and former teacher and attorney, Penelope Dyan, this workbook is a perfect way to reinforce basic reading skills while encouraging creativity and fun. It is meant to be used with Penelope Dyan's 'Mikey & Me books,' but it can stand alone as a fun workbook all by itself. All you have to do is use your very own imagination and complete the book in style, because that is what this is. It is a workbook that becomes a real book when you are finished. This workbook is made especially for kids who are learning to read or practicing their reading! It has extra big letters so you kids can see all the words very easily and it is especially good those who may have trouble seeing. The fun thing about this special workbook is that YOU GET TO MAKE A BOOK! This is how you do it. You read the words on one page (most from the Dolch reading word lists) and then you draw a picture on the page right next to the page where you read the words. When you are all finished, you have your very own special book, and there will be no other book in the whole wide world like it; because it will contain your very own work, your very own artwork! Always remember that YOU are an original, and since YOU are one of a kind, this book will also be one of a kind when YOU are finished! There are also NO wrong ways to do this book. Whatever you draw, you earn an A+! So have fun and learn a thing or two, or three! If you make a mistake, make a big one! It doesn't matter! You are learning! And oh yes, there is a small bit of math thrown into the mix as well. See if you can find it!

The story continues, and this is "My Life As I Know It, Part !V." Pam wants to go on a hayride because she thinks it will be romantic, and our heroine is not so sure it's a good idea. All sorts of thoughts and ideas are explored in this book as heroine continues to explore life past and present and gives her thoughts and perspectives on some not so pretty parts of our world and its history.Dyan is an award winning author, a former teacher and an attorney who not only understands kids of all ages, she remembers when she was a kid! This is why all her books are age appropriate and funny as well as age friendly.Life is really is an exciting ride, and it is something you don't want to miss. The trick is that the ride is so fast moving, that you really truly have to hold on tightly so you won't fall off the edge.

Penelope Dyan is back with a sequel to the sequel "More of My Life As I Know It," appropriately titled "Even More Of My Life As I know It." This story continues to explore the concept of both the first kiss and how times once were when things were simpler, or so it seemed. Penelope Dyan is a former teacher and an attorney and award winning author. Her book, "Surfer Girl," the first book in a series about a girl named Summer who swims and surfs the waves as she searches for her legacy in life, is recognized by the Girls Voices In Literature Database, Miami University, Florida, and is fifth on the Pukeke reading list(s) in Australia under best books for early teen girls. "Surfer Girl' was also best teen book at both the 2008 New York Book Festival and the 2008 Hollywood Book Festival. Dyan has followed all her dreams, and she has made them all come true. This book, third in this series, continues to remind us that our dreams can come true if we are true to ourselves.

Step into the Room 17 pod and travel back in time with room 17, where history really does come alive. This time go back to the time of the founding of the missions. Find out what our heroes bring back with them from the past and what they learn about San Diego's Mission de Alcala. And what is the Dark Angel? Why and how does Jacob Learner become a true buckaroo? Will there be another trip in the pod through time, or will this be the last trip? And if you are a history buff, can you guess why they were sent to this time and place?Written by retired fourth grade teacher and artist, Paula Parton, and especially geared for the pre-teen crowd, this book is nothing less than fun through and through. Room 17- Where History Comes Alive - Missions is, as are all of Parton's Room 17 Books, historically true to fact, entertaining, funny, and educational. Learning is fun and Bellissima is here to prove it through all the children's books it publishes! Even if your child doesn't seem to like history, he or she will love history after reading the Room 17 Book Series by Paula Parton! Remember that books are a mind investment, and you cannot go wrong with a Bellissima book. Before school starts in the fall, or to gear up after school begins, or to review your history lessons, or just for pure entertainment---anytime is the perfect time to buy a Paula Parton Room 17 Book. So read them all, have fun, and learn something while you are at it!

Dr. Stanley Friedman writes an exciting sequel to his book "Quantum Outlaws," but this time our protagonists face a much bigger challenge. This time they must save the entire universe! Find out what happens and ask yourself why Albert Einstein's words when he said, "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker," should give scientists everywhere as well as anyone who reads this book some real thought. Based on scientific facts, but fashioned into an exciting adventure that is pure fiction, this book is certain to take your imagination right into outer space. Most of all beware of (the fictional) Keppi technology lest the planet and everyone in our solar system is sucked into the beyond. And find out if our trio of middle school kids was able to save their fictional universe.

This book will enlighten and amuse you as it tells it like it is with regard to love and marriage and other relationships between men and women. Find out how men and women think when it comes to these things, and discover some things you thought you knew and some things you didn't know at all. Marriages and women bearing children seem to have taken a back seat to women's careers in modern society, and perhaps this is why many couples are afraid of marriage and prefer a different approach. But, let's face it; most women want to get married. This book will not only tell a woman how to get a man and keep him, it will also tell a man what a woman looks for in choosing a lifelong partner and/or a short term partner and vice versa. There are a lot of relationship books out there, but this book comes to you with some good old fashioned common sense as it explores the modern technological world in which we now live. The book is definitely true to its title, "Finders Keepers Losers Weepers." Dr. Deena Moustafa, PhD is also the author of "You Are Not Alone," "Depression-The Silent Screaming," and "The Mystery Puzzle---Autism."

Penelope Dyan is back with a sequel to "My Life As I Know It," appropriately titled "More Of My Life As I know It." She is here to tell you life goes on, and nothing is as grim as it may seem. She also reminds us that nothing is impossible and life is full of possibilities if we just give life a chance to do its thing. I guarantee you will read this book and laugh.Penelope Dyan is a former teacher and an attorney and award winning author. Her book, "Surfer Girl," the first book I a series about a girl named Summer who swims and surfs the waves as she searches for her legacy in life, is recognized by the Girls Voices In Literature Database, Miami University, Florida, and is fifth on the Pukeke reading list in Australia of best books for early teen girls. "Surfer Girl' was also best teen book at both the 2008 New York Book Festival and the 2008 Hollywood Book Festival. Dyan is also a person who has followed all her dreams, and who has made them all come true. This book continues to remind us that our dreams can come true if we are true to ourselves.

Knowing what is right and what is wrong is fundamental to becoming and then being the bigger person. And as you will discover, being the bigger person has nothing at all to do with size. Use this learn to read book written and illustrated by the award winning author, attorney and former K-3 teacher, Penelope Dyan, to practice your reading skills through word recognition and through word repetition and rhyme, and then think about and discuss what it means to truly be the bigger person. Enjoy some familiar Dyan characters as you turn the pages of this kid-sized book with its extra large print that is perfect for little eyes; but most of all, have fun with this 'learn to read' book, because if a kid doesn't have fun learning, a kid won't love to learn.Then, when you are all finished reading, you can go to the Bellissimavideo YouTube channel and watch the free music video that goes along with this book, and have even more learning fun!

Go back in time and see how things once were. Learn about the greatest generations of Americans and find out how they came to be the greatest generations of Americans. Written by the award winning author, attorney and former educator, Penelope Dyan, about a family not unlike her own, this book combines history with fiction in such a manner that it will open your eyes . Winston Churchill once said, "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." And even if, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself," as President Franklin D. Rossevelt said, a needless repetiton of the past is something we can easily avoid. All we have to do is pay attention to what came before us. In this book truth is mirrored in fiction, and the past reveals the present. Whether we recognize it or not, we are all a product of what came before us through blood and sacrifice, and through love and time.

It is always fun to go to the beach, and it's no different in Germany. Take a walk with Photographer John D. Weigand and award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan through the quaint streets of Warnemunde, Germany. In Spring it is still cool, but you can go to the beach, play, shop, eat lots of sweet treats and see so many things. You will walk on cobblestone streets, an see flowers and birds and many other interesting things.Visit an historic lighthouse and learn all about the history of this wonderful place. You can take a train to Berlin from this city, or you can just go down to the train station and watch the trains come in and out. If you want to feel exactly like you are the little mermaid just coming out of the sea, this is the place you want to see. Then again, perhaps you are the handsome prince. And if you ARE the little mermaid, please do not turn into sea foam and disappear into the sea.

Author Stephen Butterman is back! Now, victorious over cancer, something else has afflicted him! Little did he know that curing cancer would affect something else, his heart! No not the loving part, the organ, the muscle, the thing in his body that ticks on and keeps everything else going! The heart that pumps his life force, the blood that soars through his veins has been damaged by the chemotherapy that chased away his cancer! His conclusion? "I'd rather have cancer!" His humor is still evident in this book, and he has not stopped fighting! Feeling that a failing heart is far less glamorous than a fight against cancer, and probably being right about this, he sets out to find his way on yet another journey through his life. You might say his conclusion is to live until you die, remember and relish the past, and have as good a time as possible while you are here on this earth! Illustrations for this book 'sequel' are by Adam Frizzell.

The Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis shipping line, one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. This ship was built at the end of a long period of design development that was unfortunately halted as sailing ships gave way to ships driven by steam propulsion. You see this ship used the power of the wind and gathered the wind in its sails to further its journey, The Cutty Sark was very badly damaged by fire on May 21, 2007 as it was under restoration. It was re-opened to the public on April 25, 2012, much to the delight of would be seafaring kids and adults.Take a look at the Cutty Sark from below and above through the lens of John D. Weigand. Practice reading skills through word recognition, word repetition and rhyme as you learn some fun facts and then get to work on some research of your own, The point of all these books by Dyan and Weigand is to make kids not only learn, but also to learn to think as well as to imagine. Award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan loves kids, loves to learn herself and loves it when kids learn. There is a free music video that goes along with this book on YouTube on the Bellissimavideo YouTube channel to further enhance the learning process. The book is dedicated to a true seafaring soul.

This book is recommended by 'Simply Hotels' and the edicational website 'Maisey Goes To Barcelona.' It is a child's picture book, and sometimes even older children and adults enjoy reading it and looking at the pictures. Children can add things to the book (if they like) and write in the book and on the blank pages at the end of the book, and Penelope Dyan encourages them to do so to make the book their very own. It is a guide for the very young with colorful photographs of a walk down La Ramba (the heart of Barcelona) to the statue of Christopher Columbus pointing the way to America. There are reminders of home for those who feel a little homesick, and there is a video on YouTube that goes along with this book. Author Penelope Dyan is recognized by Kindercare, Girls Voices In Literature Database (Miami University, Florida) and the AU Pukeke recommended reading list places her books in the top ten best books for girls on two different lists! Penelope Dyan also has two of her children's books on display in the Saison Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London, chosen by the UK Arts Council. Southbank Centre is the largest arts center in the entire world, and very few authors outside the UK are placed in this library. ( And these are only a few of her honors and awards.) You need to utilize all you can when you are teaching young children, and this book will keep the yawns and the complaints away when traveling because as one reviewer in an Istanbul, Turkey newspaper noted, these authors truly see through the eyes of a child and know how to keep their interest.

The area of Stonehenge was long used by the ancients as a burial ground, and you can see the burial mounds today where the ancient people cremated and buried their dead. It is long believed that the Druids constructed Stonnehenge as a place of worship, and Stonhenge is considered to be a great architectural feat. You can walk in a circle around Stonehenge and see it from many perspectives, set in its natural setting with sheep and cattle grazing nearby.When Stonehenge was built is also up for debate. Some say it was built as early as 3000 BC, others speculate it was constructed about 2400 BC. No one knows exactly how this monument was created or why, and no one knows by whom it was erected. It baffles the mind how ancient people could have moved the huge Stonehenge stones. The legend of King Arthur even comes into play in the discussion of the construction of Stonehenge. One Twelfth Century writer, Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his History of the Kings of Britain , wrote that Merlin brought the stones to the Salisbury Plain from Ireland sometime in the fifth century, and Merllin suggested an expedition to Ireland for the purpose of transplanting the "Giant's Ring Stone Circle" to Britain (stones that had been previously brought to Ireland from Africa by giants). Others suggest this was the work of extra-terrestrials; but no one really knows how Stonehenge was erected or what its purpose was. It is all speculation.Award winning poet and author, Penelope Dyan and photographer John D. Weigand traveled to Stonehenge to bring this book to you and to remind us all that nothing is impossible, even if it seems that way. Stonehenge is proof positive of that!