A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.
The fascinating story is about an intensely curious and intelligent girl, who literally spies on people and writes about them in her secret notebook, trying to make sense of life's absurdities.
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By all accounts, Eloise is an extraordinary child. Who else has spent her lifetime in New York's Plaza Hotel with all of its amenities? Eloise charms us with her precocious nature and her ability to transform an adult world into a giant playground.
Eight-year old Joe is about to become a big brother when he meets Mika from planet Eljo, where children hatch out of eggs and life in general is quite different from what Joe knows.
Rabbi Loew shapes a giant man of clay--a golem--and brings him to life to defend the Jews of Prague from their persecutors, revealing the consequences of unleashing power beyond human control.
Zelinsky's retelling of Rapunzel captures the possessiveness, confinement, and separation of a late 17th-century French tale by Mlle. la Force, where a mother powerfully resists her child's inevitable growth.
"When I was twelve years old, I knew what I wanted--to be an artist." So begins My Name is Georgia, Jeanette Winter's lovely picture-book portrait of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
Here are over 70 games to help your child learn to read—and love it. Peggy Kaye's Games for Reading helps children read by doing just what kids like best: playing games. Easy to follow and easy to play, these games are ideal for busy, working parents.
Designed to help the volunteer become more self-reliant, this handbook includes: ten specific ways of working with children, with guides and suggestions for each; many book lists, including multicultural titles, at several grade levels; concrete suggestio
Against the background of normal progress, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children examines factors that put children at risk of poor reading.