Theme: animal

Nero Corleone

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Nero Corleone isn’t your average cat. He’s much worse. On a farm somewhere in Italy, a black cat named Nero reigns supreme. There’s not one animal on the farm that doesn’t do exactly as Nero orders, even the dog. Then one day,Nero visits the house on the nearby hill, where a young German couple is [...]

Descriptors: Fantasy, Germany, Italy, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Out of the Egg

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

You think you know the tale of the Little Red Hen. You think you know how it ends. But in this story everything changes when the hard-working Red Hen lays a perfect white egg. And out of this egg comes a chick with a mind of her own. Here is a beautiful book with fantastic [...]

Descriptors: Folklore, New Zealand, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

One for All – All for One

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When clumsy Max Mouse isn’t tripping over himself, he’s falling flat on his whiskers. But as he venturs out on his own for the first time, he takes his mother’s advice:” Follow your dreams, Max, and never forget that you are something special.” So Max makes the best of what he’s got just like the [...]

Descriptors: Austria, Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

The First Music

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When the animals all get together in the jungle, they discover that the noise that they have been making is indeed music. Dylan Pritchett weaves a tale that helps us discover that we all have music inside just waiting to come out.

Descriptors: Africa, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Our Apple Tree

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Here’s a whimsical and very useful look at the life cycle of the apple tree. With two helpful tree sprites as guides, readers travel from spring, when the apple tree blossoms, through summer, when the fruit grows, to fall and the harvest. Along the way, you’ll learn about the life of the tree and the [...]

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Fantasy, Picture Book, Scandinavia, Sweden » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Thumbelina: Tiny Runaway Bride

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

This is a contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale. It’s about a tiny girl just the size of your thumb. The tiny girl becomes separated from her overprotective mother, has adventures with various animals, and records her feelings in a diary as she gains self-reliance and searches for someone to love.

Descriptors: Denmark, England (UK), Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Creatures: Yesterday and Today

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In this lively companion to Creatures: Great and Small, author and illustrator Karen Patkau transports the reader to prehistoric times, when many creatures existed that have since disappeared. From the worlds of insects, fish, mammals, sea jellies, reptiles, amphibians, birds, crustaceans, arachnids, and mollusks, she presents living animals and their prehistoric ancestors. Meet Diplodocus and [...]

Descriptors: Canada, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Peek!: A Thai Hide-and-Seek

By auraenid | Published: December 1, 2008

A father and daughter play hide-and-seek in the midst of the animals near their house in Thailand. Papa calls on all the creatures of the jungle to help find his baby in this game of hide-and-seek.”Jut-Ay, Baby, peek-a-boo,Want to play? Where are you?” Baby knows that Jut-Ay means morning has come, and it’s time to [...]

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Picture Book, Realistic Fiction, Thailand » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment

Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Captivated the World

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Knut was born, the first polar bear cub at the Berlin Zoo in more than thirty years, he was no bigger than a snowball and unable to care for himself. His mother, a rescued East German circus bear, didn’t know how to take care of Knut and rejected him. Knut would have died if [...]

Descriptors: Germany, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » 1 Comment

The Bremen Town Musicians

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

This is the classic tale of four beleaguered animals—a donkey who can no longer work, a hound who can no longer hunt, a cat who’s too old to chase mice, and a rooster who’s scheduled to become dinner—who decide to run off to be musicians in the town of Bremen. But they get more than [...]

Descriptors: Folklore, Germany, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment