A remarkably rounded picture of Shakespeare's life and the period in which he lived includes a thoughtful attempt to relate circumstances in his personal life to the content of his plays.
Readers learn how something can be made from almost nothing as Joseph transforms his amazing, but tattered, coat, into a jacket, a vest and a scarf. When there is only a button left remaining, he uses his imagination to find one more use.
Here is a collection of eighteen stories about heroines: girls and women with as much courage as their better-known male counterparts.
Madlenka's tooth is loose and she wants to tell the world. She takes the reader around the block to meet her neighbors.
Inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake's imaginary inn and its unusual guests.
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother's boarding house. But no one excited her as much as Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird.
Ms. Frizzle, an unflappable science teacher, drives the magical school bus into a cloud where the children shrink to the size of water droplets and follow the course of water through the city's waterworks system.
Alex feels that he does not have much in common with his stepfather Jake until a fuzzy spider brings them together.
A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.