The addition of a runt pig to their New Hampshire farm — as a pet, not for the plate — allowed the author to observe close-up how affection (even inter-species) builds community and friendship.
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Bright, angular illustrations almost frantically zoom across pages and combine with the cumulative rhyme (think of "This is the House That Jack Built") to explain how the earth was formed.
Though they joined the Confederate or Union armies for a variety of reasons, women fought during the Civil War.
Knox was a Boston bookseller in Colonial America who would go on to join the Continental Army and later the young country's first Secretary of War.
In her introduction, Silvey asserts that "Children's Books change lives. [This book] provides insight into how they do this." The organization suggests how books have touched people (e.g. in career later choice or developing a deeper understanding).
Silvey's years of experience reading, evaluating, and publishing children's books combines with her passion for literature that endures over time and generations comes together in this insightful glimpses at 100 books.
Recognizing a "golden age" of young adult literature, Silvey combines her considerable experience and a love of literature to identify and write about books for young adults.
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Thulani enjoys sitting in the sun, and he is tired of milking his cow. When he sells his cow to buy a goat, however, his problems are just beginning. What will it take for his luck change?
When the people of Johannesburg go to bed, the animals of Kruger National Park begin to stir.
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"This heart-tugging picture book from a debut author tells a lyrical soccer story in the voice of a young boy in a South African shantytown… In full-page oil paintings, Ford uses unusual angles to intensify the sense of the scuffling, exciting action;