Author : Carol Otis Hurst
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060090029
Have you heard the one about Grandpa walking through three feet of snow—uphill both ways—just to get home when he was a kid? Well, you haven't heard it like this! During one sudden and relentless blizzard, lively Walt gets stuck for days in a barn by himself. "Awful!" Meanwhile, shy Fred is trapped in an inn full of people. "Horrible!" They both have to dig their way out. "The worst." "You said it." What a terrible storm! But what a terrific—and funny—story!
Author : Carol Otis Hurst
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2001-05-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0060294035
Some people collect stamps. Other people collect coins. Carol Otis Hurst's father collected rocks. Nobody ever thought his obsession would amount to anything. They said, "You've got rocks in your head" and "There's no money in rocks." But year after year he kept on collecting, trading, displaying, and labeling his rocks. The Depression forced the family to sell their gas station and their house, but his interest in rocks never wavered. And in the end the science museum he had visited so often realized that a person with rocks in his head was just what was needed. Anyone who has ever felt a little out of step with the world will identify with this true story of a man who followed his heart and his passion.
Author : Carol Otis Hurst
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Children
ISBN : 9780026861427
The best picture books available for use in a classroom as identified by five experienced teachers. Includes a summary and a brief description of the text and illustrations for each book as well as suggestion for ways in which the book can be used across the curriculum.
Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : Square Fish
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429939958
The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and--in two dramatic foldout spreads-- the vertiginous drama of Petit's feat. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal, the winner of the 2004 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books, and the winner of the 2006 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.
Author : Florence Parry Heide
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395559642
A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street.
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416948953
Rhyming text depicts a father sharing with his child such things as seven words that all mean blue and the name of every kind of cloud.
Author : Beatrice Gormley
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802854184
Sally Gifford, a Patriot shoemaker's daughter, tries to maintain her close friendship with Kitty Lawton, the daughter of a Loyalist official, as pre-Revolutionary War tensions in 1773 Boston increase and push them apart.
Author : Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547530838
In this Caldecott Medal–winning picture book, the true story of Wilson Bentley and his singular fascination with snowflakes is rendered in rich prose and gorgeous artwork, perfect for the holidays, snow days, and everyday. Wilson Bentley was always fascinated by snow. In childhood and adulthood, he saw each tiny crystal of a snowflake as a little miracle and wanted to understand them. His parents supported his curiosity and saved until they could give him his own camera and microscope. At the time, his enthusiasm was misunderstood. But with patience and determination, Wilson catalogued hundreds of snowflake photographs, gave slideshows of his findings and, when he was 66, published a book of his photos. His work became the basis for all we know about beautiful, unique snowflakes today. This biographical tribute to a very special farmer is the perfect holiday gift or snow day read.
Author : Karen Ackerman
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 030779279X
A beautifully nostalgic picture book about one grandfather's younger days that shows you're only as old as you feel! "In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it was like to be a song and dance man. Gammell captures all the story's inherent joie de vivre with color pencil renderings that leap off the pages. Bespectacled, enthusiastic Grandpa clearly exudes the message that you're only as old as you feel, but the children respond--as will readers--to the nostalgia of the moment. Utterly original."--(starred) Booklist.
Author : Mem Fox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481479296
"Hattie the Hen spots the danger--but no none seems to care!"--Pg 4 of cover.
