Honeybee Man

Honeybee Man

You are about to enter into a magical world and your doorway to this special place will be a man named Fred, a home in Brooklyn, New York, and three houses with “two white stories and one red story, and inside, thousands of tiny rooms made of wax.” Imagine...
Me Jane

Me Jane

Gentle, approachable Jane has a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee and together they spend hours in the natural world, their very favorite place to be. There is so much they notice together from the birds to the spiders and especially the wonder of eggs. “It was a...
Beautiful Blue Eyes

Beautiful Blue Eyes

The eyes are the window to the soul, n’est-ce pas? Here is an ode to a clearly beloved child with big, beautiful blue eyes that talk and reveal all sort of facets and feelings she holds deep inside. The writer loves to watch those eyes to see the care, concern,...
How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?

How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?

Just how does a dinosaur clean his room? Does he complain and make a mess or does he do his best? How about at your house? How does your little dinosaur clean up? With a smile on his/her face? This is part of the series that Jane Yolen and Mark Teague are having so...

Who Was Franklin Roosevelt?

Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. Elected four times, he spent thirteen years in the White House. How he led the country through tremendously...
Cryer’s Cross

Cryer’s Cross

“Everything changes when Tiffany Quinn disappears.” Kendall lives in a tiny farming community in Montana. One spring a classmate disappears. The entire community searches with no avail. Tiffany is simply gone. As summer turns to fall, Kendall and her classmates...
Jam & Honey

Jam & Honey

What a great book for teaching point of view! Seems that a great number of our young ones these days have a fear of bees so they will relate perfectly to the feelings of this young girl who has gone berry picking but is afraid of the bees. She wants to make jam and...
Dazzling Display of Dogs

Dazzling Display of Dogs

How does she do this? What a hilarious, entertaining, colorful and creative collection of concrete poetry for kids about dogs. I don’t know about you, but I’ve found that even kids who don’t like POETRY, love concrete poetry and for those who also...