An African-American Jewish boy traces his ancestry with the help of the Love Bird of Paris.
Bonjour, Lonnie
Primary (ages 6-9)
Material appropriate for primary age groups
Hidden
In this gentle, poetic young graphic novel, Dounia, a grandmother, tells her granddaughter the story even her son has never heard: how, as a young Jewish girl in Paris, she was hidden away from the Nazis by a series of neighbors and friends who risked their lives to keep her alive when her parents had been taken to concentration camps.
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin
The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he pipes away their children as well.
Idora
When the apartment building in which she lives is sold, Idora, a bored and lonely giraffe, decides to make a big change in her life.
The Selkie Girl
A retelling of the legend from British coasts and islands in which a man falls in love with a beautiful seal girl and forces her to live on land and be his bride.
Carly
A homeless girl wanders the land searching for food and shelter, but no one will help her until she meets a Fool, who is kinder than all the others.
Boxes For Katje
After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.
Saint-Saens’s Danse Macabre [with Audio Cd]
A fictionalized account of how the composer Saint-Seans concieved of and wrote Danse Macabre.
Busy Bunny Days
The Bunny family has a busy day in their home town, on a fun-filled farm adventure, and at the port for an exciting outing in this seek-and-find book where there is always something to discover.
I Didn’t Do My Homework Because…
How many excuses are there for not doing homework? Let us count the ways: Giant lizards invaded the neighborhood. Elves hid all the pencils. And then there was that problem with carnivorous plants. The excuses go on and on, each more absurd than the next and escalating to hilarious heights.