Young Cal has watched the Book Lady on her sorrel mare ride the long trail up to his family’s farm every two weeks to deliver books. While his younger sister Lark loves to read and would happily have her nose in a book from dawn to dusk, Cal has never learned to read, and feels [...]
Traded to the Hogtown Maple Buds near the end of the regular season, Clancy Cooke helps his new team make the playoffs. With his skating and stick handling, Maple Buds fans believe, the team has a real shot at the Stanley Cup.
The visitors take an early lead in that seventh game of the finals, but [...]
When Michael gets home from school, and his mother asks him about his day, he regales her with stories about his classmates, stories that celebrate bodily functions. Michael tells his mother about the booger that comes to decorate the top of a birthday cookie, she responds with, “Don’t say that word!” Michael fairs [...]
Buttercup is a black and white dairy cow who spends a lovely day grazing in the fields with the rest of the herd and taking pleasure in everything that she discovers around her – the blue sky dotted with clouds, the rolling hills covered in tender, green grass, the creek that wends its way through [...]
An egg rolls down the hill and into a duck’s nest, and, when that egg hatches, out comes Guji-Guji, distinctly unducklike in appearance, with his scaly blue-grey skin, his four legs that end in long claws, and his sharp teeth. But Guji-Guji learns to swim and walk, along with his duckling siblings, Crayon, Zebra and [...]
In Hands, author and illustrator Lois Ehlert tells the story of growing up to be an artist. In simple words and richly evocative images that capture the experiences through a young child’s eyes, Ehlert documents the work her father and mother did with their hands, her father’s woodworking, her mother’s sewing, and their gardening. She [...]
The Once Upon a TIMES reports that Princess Vera is deathly ill, and that her father, the King, is frantic. Fortunately, Libby Gaberchik, fairy and healer, knows just what is wrong with the dear girl. Love. The princess is starved for it.
So Libby tells the king that Vera must eat three perfect peaches and marry [...]
When Matt’s parent move again, this time to a new house in a new subdivision, Matt finds himself with no one – and nothing – to play with. Standing on bare ground littered with scraps of construction materials, Matt sees a stick and feels like breaking it, or hitting something with it, but when he [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
