Young Kojo, who lives in a small village in Ghana, has had to quit school to help his widowed mother collect firewood to sell at the local market. The twenty families of Kojo’s village have agreed to save money so that each family in turn can borrow all of the savings to buy something important. [...]
Emily Bing is happy to meet Matt Martinez, the boy who walks up her front walk to say hello soon after she and her family move into her Great-Aunt Miranda’s old house. Matt wants to know if the house is haunted, which it isn’t, but it does contain an odd little room at the top [...]
Dragged on a day-long field trip to the Black Vine swamp in Florida’s everglades by Mrs. Starch, their terror of a science teacher, Nick Waters, his friend Marta Gonzalaz, and the rest of their class from Truman School scramble to record the names of plants and animals knowing full well that they will be tested [...]
Here are some pictures of Chester that kindergarten children have drawn!
After reading Melanié Watt’s Chester, students came up with some of their own Chester stories!
One day a man was going for a walk……
Blah, blah, blah… When’s lunch?
… in the park…..
…. then Chester took over.
Chester, stop! keep going.
Stop!
Says you!
The man walking his BIG FIERCE dog [...]
When Mélanie Watt, the award-winning author and illustrator of Scaredy Squirrel, tries to write a book about a mouse, her story is taken over by a large tortoiseshell cat named Chester. Armed with a red marker, Chester packs the mouse onto an air plane destined for someplace far, far away, and moves into the story. [...]
After reading , students in Kindergarten to Grade 3 created their own superhero cards, making illustrations of themselves in superhero costume, thinking up their superhero name, and listing their superhero powers.
Of course, if I could choose, I’d want to be able to become invisible, to be super smart, and to be able to fly. But I’m [...]
By day, Eliot is a quiet boy who plays in his room, feeds cupcakes to his goldfish, and watches Mr. Smith wash his car. But, when the clock strikes midnight, he becomes Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero! Armed with his amazing hypno-vision, his super strength and his super detecting skills, Eliot tackles the lions rampaging through [...]
Peering into the bathroom mirror, one morning after his shower, fifteen year-old Bobby Phillips is shocked by what he sees. Or, rather, by what he doesn’t see, for Bobby has disappeared, become invisible. His parents, both exceptionally intelligent and well-educated university professors, are initially taken aback by their son’s invisibility, but quickly draw up plans [...]
