An old woman is at her wits end when a troop of fairies won’t stop cleaning her house
Too Many Fairies: A Celtic Tale
Europe
Materials from Europe
Happy Birthday, Bertie!
It’s Bertie’s birthday, and he’s going to have a birthday party! There’s a birthday cake to be made, and decorations to be hung, and games to be played, and best of all, presents to be opened. But where is Daddy’s present? Daddy has hidden it so well, he cannot find it himself.
Puppy Love: A Litter of Puppy Stories
Hugs and Kisses, Don’t Worry Wags, and Wiggles have been charming children for years. These three books are combined into one volume.
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
A biography of Leonardo Fibonacci, the 12th century mathematician who discovered the numerical sequence named for him.
Do You Still Love Me?
Carrot is having a bad day. This morning her mommy and daddy had an argument, and she feels terrible. Do they still love each other? Carrot wonders. Do they still love her?
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian
This book documents the work of a young girl, Maria Merian, who lived during the Middle Ages and disproved the theory of spontaneous generation by observing caterpillars as they spun cocoons and emerged as butterflies and moths in the spring.
Peter Kent’s City across Time
This book illustrates the evolution of an imaginary European city from the Stone Age to the distant future.
I Am Who I Am
This book explores children’s earliest existential queries.
Remembering Crystal
Crystal had lived in the garden for many years and she was growing old–Zelda was just starting out in life and though she was young, she and Crystal were best friends, but one day Crystal was not in the garden, she had died; in this gentle, beautifully illustrated story, children learn, with Zelda, that true friendship is a gift that doesn’t die.
Pieces of Me
A coming-of-age tale follows 14-year-old Mirabelle, a talented artist from a broken home, who befriends the free-spirited and confident Catherine whose friendship brings Mira out of her shell and teaches her about boys. Mira soon learns that her newly found confidence can be shattered in an instant.