Working in an American primitive style animated by the humor and storytelling genius for which he is renowned, Caldecott Winner artist Paul O. Zelinsky puts oils to cherry and maple for this tall-tale competition between a Tennessee woods-woman extra...
In a collection of three exciting adventure stories, two brothers and their sister venture out amid the perils of rural nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, meeting a dragonslayer along the way and learning valuable lessons about independence....
When a cat gets stuck up in a tree, it sets in motion a world of poetic activities--from a little girl who wants to take the cat home to the mayor who tries to organize a concerted effort to save the feline....
A searing Holocaust novel based on a true story.Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been forced to leave their home in Poland and are imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. There they must spin thread on treacherous machinery to make clothing and blank...
Caldecott Honor author Anne Isaacs and N.Y. TIMES bestselling artist Mark Teague transform Helen Bannerman's popular classic story into an Amercian tall tale set in the backwoods of New England.
When her family's wagon hits a bump, golden-...
Meet Estrella. She can run so fast that she burns up the air, leaving trails of flames wherever she goes. Her pets -- a Kickle Snifter, a Sidehill Wowser, and a Rubberado puppy -- are as untamed as California, and the pride and love of Estrella's h...
Here is the thrilling, thigh-slapping companion to Swamp Angel, the beloved Caldecott Honorâ€"winning picture book. Swamp Angel has a reputation as the greatest woodswoman and wildest wildcat in all of Tennessee. But when she grows too big for th...
When Widow Tulip Jones of Bore, England, inherits a ranch in By-Golly Gully, Texas, and moves in with two trunks of tea, twelve pet tortoises, and three servants, hilarity ensues. The peaceful life suits the wealthy widow fine until word gets out and...