ICCAL » Dreams

Promise The Night

Book Importer — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:51:51 +0000

For a young girl, Beryl has big dreams- bigger than the vast ranch in British East Africa where she is being raised by her demanding father. Abandoned by her mother, who fled the remote African life to return to “civilized” England, Beryl’s only friend is her mother’s dog, Buller- that is, until one night when Buller is attacked by a leopard and dragged into the jungle. While keeping her promise to rescue him, she makes a new friend, and begins her journey to becoming one of the most famous and admired women of her time.

Based on the true life of Beryl Markham- the first pilot to fly solo from England to North America- Michaela MacColl’s richly imagined story of a feisty girl who hunts with Nandi warriors, becomes the best horse breaker on her father’s ranch, and resists all attempts to make her a proper lady, is a compelling and action-packed read for anyone with a thirst for adventure.

The Moon Has Written You A Poem

Book Importer — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:09:47 +0000

Subtly capturing the innocence and imagination of childhood, this magical poetry collection captures the innocence and imagination of childhood focuses on the importance of family. Deftly translated verse captures the lyrical rhymes of the original Portuguese while providing a whimsical escape for the entire family to enjoy.

Nora’s Roses

Book Importer — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:59:36 +0000

Poor Nora! She has stayed inside all week with a cold, and only Kiki the dog, Teddy the bear, and Maggie the doll for company, while the roses bloom just outside her window. One by one, visitors pass, each stopping to pick a rose on his way, and soon there won’t be any roses left! But with a little imagination, Nora discovers just the right way to cure her sick-in-bed boredom and make her roses last forever.

Pablo Neruda

Book Importer — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:55:56 +0000

Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo Neruda. Pablo wrote poems about the things he loved—things made by his friends in the café, things found at the marketplace, and things he saw in nature. He wrote about the people of Chile and their stories of struggle. Because above all things and above all words, Pablo Neruda loved people.

Clementine

Book Importer — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:51:37 +0000

Once there was a little snail who loved everything round-hoops and wheels and balls and balloons and, most of all, the moon. Oh, how she longed to glide gently over the moonrs”s surface, around and around and around. And so she made a daring decision-shers”d find a way to fly to the moon! This is a story about dreams and determination.

Water Ghost

Book Importer — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:05:35 +0000

In China in the 1940s, ten-year-old Ying sells her handmade bamboo chicken fences to make money to attend a school camping trip, but no one understands why she instead uses her earnings to buy a dead hen from the grandmother of a drowned classmate.

Saraswati’s Way

Book Importer — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:58:22 +0000

Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.

See the review at WOW Review, Volume 4, Issue 1

Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier De Saint-George

Book Importer — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:43:55 +0000

The musical superstar of 18th-century France was Joseph Boulogne—a black man. This inspiring story tells how Joseph, the only child of a black slave and her white master, becomes “the most accomplished man in Europe.” After traveling from his native West Indies to study music in Paris, young Joseph is taunted about his skin color. Despite his classmates’ cruel words, he continues to devote himself to his violin, eventually becoming conductor of a whole orchestra. Joseph begins composing his own operas, which everyone acknowledges to be magnifique. But will he ever reach his dream of performing for the king and queen of France? This lushly illustrated book by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome introduces us to a talented musician and an overlooked figure in black history.

The Boy in the Garden

Book Importer — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:22:13 +0000

After Jiro encounters a life-like garden statue of a tall bird, he falls asleep and dreams of the story his mother once told him about a grateful crane.

El circo

Book Importer — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:43:33 +0000

Description in Spanish:Alicia siempre ha querido ser trapecista y su sueno se hace realidad cuando el circo llega a su pueblo. Entre mil colores, payasos, acrobtas, moniytos, caballos, y elefantes, Alicia logra lo que se propone.