This wonderful tale is about Willie"a boy who taps, drums or thumps to express the music he feels inside. Willie dreams of playing the African instruments of his ancestors that his Grandpa describes: guedras, ecasas, atumpan and dundun drums. Reade...
Hey, diddle, diddle, Cricket did fiddle
While Firefly mimicked the moon.
Wildebeest rumbled
While Wild Dog grumbled, and Lion chased after Baboon.
Introducing Mother Goose as you've never seen her before! This unique look at Africa pr...
Join Denise as she visits her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou for a school vacation she'll never forget! Grandma, a wildlife rehabilitator, shares her knowledge with Denise as they explore the mysterious bayou. Together they meet myriad creatures ...
A wonderful look into Japanese tradition and culture through the eyes of a young girl, Kimiko. Every year on Children's Day in Japan a kite in the shape of a carp is flown for each boy in the family. Kimiko desperately wants an orange, black, and whi...
When a little girl learns in school about a tall, proud African people called the Masai, she discovers a sense of kinship and imagines herself living in Africa. She would live in a circle of huts in a tiny village. Instead of having a hamster as a pe...
"Wriggly friends Squiggly friends Laughing and giggling friends All-kinds-of weather friends Always-together friends"This whimsical look at friendship presents boys and girls playing together in a variety of settings. Combining Virginia Kroll's bounc...
Every sunny afternoon, Emilio wheels his grandfather outside to watch the butterflies. Emilio's grandfather can no longer speak, but Emilio can see happiness in the older man's eyes as he watches butterflies dance through the air. But one day the but...
Seth's best friend, Jacob, broke Seth's truck. Seth knows it was an accident, but still, it was his favorite toy! He tells Jacob to go home and not come back. But when Seth goes to visit his neighbor, Grandma Grace, he accidentally breaks a lamp....
Jason has an important job to do. He has to take the invitations for Grandma's birthday party to the mailbox right away. But then he sees Carson flying a new eagle kite in the park. It won't matter if he stops to fly the kite for a minute, will it?...
During dress rehearsal for the school play, Brianna gets a bad coughing attack and she has to go to the hospital where she learns that she has asthma, but when Brianna learns more about asthma and how to manage it, things are soon under control for h...
Mouse and her friends want to play tug-of-war, but they’ll need to use some everyday math to figure out how to make teams that are equal. As Mouse looks at various solutions she is not sure what it means to be equal. Nothing works until Mouse start...
In World War II Poland, a young girl receives straw at the Christmas Eve service to bring to her impoverished family. But on her way home, Marta meets others who are much poorer than she, and she shares her piece until there is nothing left. In spite...
Cristina can't believe that her favorite author will be in town for a booksigning! She plans to go. But when it conflicts with the Special Olympics event that she promised her brother she would attend, she has an important decision to make....
Nicholas can't stand his next-door neighbor, Mr. Robinson. Mr. Robinson gets mad about everything. Dad explains that Mr. Robinson is probably grumpy because of some personal troubles. But Nicholas doesn't care, at least until he has a bad day of his ...
Ryan is fast like a cheetah, but his friend Doug is not. After they get timed in gym, Doug comes in behind everyone else. "Doug the Slug," chants Ryan and he gets a lot of laughs. Doug is upset but Ryan doesn't notice....
Young readers will delight in this silly story about two rabbits, Tulip and Snuggle, who learn how to open their cage and then begin doing household chores so their owners can spend more time with them....
When Sarah's block loses power after a snowstorm, she is sad that she can't play her new computer game. But then she sees her elderly neighbor, Mrs. Warren, in her home alone looking sad. Should she help Mrs. Warren?...
When Grandma Grace�s Thanksgiving bowl topples off the table and into the lives of others, it becomes a useful found object for all who encounter it. From one Thanksgiving to the next, the bowl makes its way upstream and downstream, through s...
Celebrate milestones with a new?or soon to be? kindergartner.
When you were newborn, you ate, burped and cried. Every year there is more you can do. And now you are five, and going to kindergarten! For anyone who is proud of a new kindergartner, ...
“Tsunami! Run!” The bright December morning dawned like any other. The Ramakrishnan family went about their daily business, but their scruffy yellow dog, Selvakumar, felt something in the air. When a low rumbling noise began to fill the village, ...
Find special mealtime prayers and Thanksgiving activities inside! Grace’s mind was racing. What was that spelling word that meant ‘great generosity in giving’? She squeezed her eyes shut, and it came to her. Bounty. That was the word! Journey b...
PreS - K - A boy describes all of his classmates' teddy bears. In gentle rhyming verse, he notes that Poppy has a floppy bear/her grammy made from socks./Livi's has paint splattered on it-/looks like chicken pox! There is a bear that can dance, a gia...
This Traditions of Faith book features a unique Ukrainian Celebration of New Life in Christ -- the coloring and exchange of pysanky eggs at Eastertime. Children love coloring Easter eggs. Easter Eggs for Anya is a story to explain one of the origins ...
Makayla loves to fix all kinds of things, and thanks to the toolbox Grandpa gave her, she's ready to mend anything she can. When Aunt Karen's turtle figurine broke or when Mr. Bell's bird-feeder fell off the tree, Makayla was there to help. On her wa...