Theme: Loneliness

Bee Frog

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

A small frog who just wants to be heard.Bee Frog is not a frog — she’s a dragon! A not-nice, very fierce dragon! But Mom and Dad Frog are too busy to notice. They don’t even pay attention when Bee Frog hops off to practice her dragon noises all by herself. Is it possible that [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Fantasy, Northern Ireland (UK), Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment

The Night Journey

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Rachel ignores her parents’ wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.

Descriptors: Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Russia » Other Themes: » Comments closed

Whatever

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Billy, unimpressed with everything his father does with him, always responds ‘whatever,’ until the world’s ‘hungriest’ tiger comes along and gets his attention.

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Mud City

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

This final book in the trilogy begun in The Breadwinner and Parvana’s Journey paints a devastating portrait of life in refugee camps and shows the resourcefulness of children who endure great suffering there.

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The Little Flower King

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A lonely king in search of a princess to become his queen finds one appearing within one of his beloved tulips. Includes die-cut pages.

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Straw Sense

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Goolam-Habib, a young boy who is new to a village surrounded by strawberry fields and who doesn’t speak, befriends an old man making a straw-filled doll, and soon the old man helps the boy find himself.

Descriptors: Africa, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction, South Africa » Other Themes: , » Comments closed