A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.
Primary (ages 6-9)
Material appropriate for primary age groups
Biggest Bear
Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family’s barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
White Snow Bright Snow
When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard.
Rapunzel
A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.
In The Town All Year ’round
Big, colorful illustrations and minimal text set the stage for a delightful cast of characters as they go about their day-to-day adventures in one little town throughout the year. Playing, chasing pets, running errands, going to work: following what happens and looking for the many small surprises in the pictures will absorb and amuse children and parents alike.
Frog Went A – Courtin’
Picture book based on a popular folk song.
Smoky Night
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
Fables
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
The Little Man
Maxie, who is only 2 inches tall, realizes his dream of becoming a circus performer.
Henrietta And The Golden Eggs
Henrietta has big dreams for a little chicken: learning to sing, to swim, to fly, and, most important of all, to lay golden eggs. Even when her three thousand, three hundred thirty-three fellow inmates in the old henhouse laugh at her ambitions, Henrietta holds fast, practicing day and night. Whether Henrietta achieves her dreams is debatable, but through her persistence and her resolute belief in herself, she does manage to change the lives of everyone in the henhouse for the better.