A collection of jump-rope and other play rhymes from seventeen countries, including Brazil, India, Israel, Greece, Armenia, and the United States, in both English and the original language.
Picture Book
Sense Pass King: A Story From Cameroon
Despite a jealous king’s repeated attempts to get rid of her, Ma’antah continually manages to outwit him and proves herself worthy of the name Sense Pass King.
Here Is The African Savanna
Cumulative text describes the interdependence among the plants and animals of an African savanna. Giraffes, lions, hippos, elephants, and many more animals are all part of the food web of the African savanna.
To Dinner, For Dinner
Juhudi, a small rabbit, outwit a mighty leopard who wants to eat her for dinner. She is such a clever animal, she has already fooled Leopard not once but twice! However, this harvest season Juhudi has run out of tricks. To make matters worse, now she is plumper than ever thanks to her bountiful garden.
Red Rock: A Graphic Fable
Old Beaver’s idyllic valley, where he built so many dams, is under threat from developers of a luxury hotel. When bulldozers and steam shovels arrive, he and his friends organize in what looks like an uphill battle. Meanwhile, a little girl who loves nature hears about the hotel and joins the fight. Can they succeed? Old Beaver’s mysterious dream about the red rock offers unexpected hope.
Very Last First Time
Eva lives in an Inuit village in northern Canada. In the winter, people search along the bottom of the seabed beneath a thick shelf of ice for mussels to eat. Eva usually helps her mother, but for the first time, shes going to go by herself. She soon gathers a pan full of mussels. But then, her candle goes out, and the tide threatens to return! When she is finally safe with her mother, Eva proclaims, that was my very last first time walking alone on the bottom of the sea.
If I Had A Million Onions
Rhyming, sing-song text enhance a poetry collection that includes the title poem. By the author of Peek-a-Little Boo and There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen.
Unspoken
In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.
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School Days Around The World
“What is a school? Is it a building with classrooms? Or can it be any place where children learn?” The fascinating stories that follow will expand how young readers think of school, as they learn about the experiences of real children in thirteen different countries around the world.
Good Night, Firefly
When the power goes off one night, Nina conquers her fear of the dark by going out and trapping one of the fireflies lighting up the sky, and she has fun playing with him until she realizes his light is growing ever dimmer and she must set him free.