A man fills the Australian wilderness with singing, but because he is old, one day he forgets to sing, so the animals help him remember.
The Old Man Who Loved to Sing
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There Was An Old Sailor
This playful, rhyming picture book offers a fresh and fun new take on the song “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.” In Claire Saxby’s telling, a white-bearded, big-bellied sailor sets things in motion by swallowing a krill. He then goes on to swallow progressively larger sea creatures, each meant to catch the preceding one.
The Umbrella Thief
When each of the umbrellas he brings back to his village disappears, Kiri Mama devises a plan to track down the thief.
Socrates and the Three Pigs
A wolf’s attempt to figure out in which of five houses he is most likely to find one of three little pigs introduces such mathematical concepts as combinatorial analysis, permutations, and probabilities.
Excuse Me, Is This India?
Illustrated with rich quilts put together with Indian textiles, this whimsical story in verse is an unusual book of travel-through a child’s imagination. Brilliant nonsense verse and exquisite textile art together plot a blithe, philosophic journey through the surreal mixture of places, people and times that is India.
Always With You
Orphaned at the age of four when her village in Viet Nam is bombed, Kim is rescued by American soldiers and raised in an orphanage, always finding comfort in her mother’s last words: “Don’t be afraid. I will always be with you.”
Mujer Que Brillaba Aún Más Que El Sol/The Woman Who Outshone the Sun
Retells the Zapotec legend of Lucia Zenteno, a beautiful woman with magical powers who is exiled from a mountain village and takes its water away in punishment.
Migrant
A young Mexican boy tells how he, his mother, and his sister travel across the border to search for his father and for work in Los Angeles.
See the review at WOW Review Volume VII, Issue 4
Sidney, Stella, and the Moon
Twins Sidney and Stella love doing everything together. Everything except share. When a quarrel over a bouncy ball spells cosmic disaster, the twins must face their biggest-ever challenge: working together to find a new moon!
My Dear Noel: The Story of a Letter from Beatrix Potter
A letter from Beatrix Potter to a young friend who is ill marks the origin of her famous tales.