I got in a long line to get a free copy of this book at BEA 2014 because there was a cat on the cover. The cat subject did not disappoint. This was an incredibly original tale that blends a cute animal story in a Victorian London setting with Charles Dickens. The writing has been carefully cra...
Cheshire Cheese Cat Children will take pleasure in reading this adventurous and humorous Victorian story set in London’s Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. It is a book whose main characters are animals and humans play the supporting roles. One of those humans being British author Charles Dickens. It is...
I'm reading the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl books for the coming school year with my daughter this summer and this is one of them.Don't you love it when a book surprises you? I don't generally like books from the POV of an animal. Generally. They usually bore me to tears. So I wasn't looking fo...
This is an amazing story, told in picture book form, about how a tribe in Africa responded to the events of September 11, 2001. It is so inspiring and heart warming to read about how this tribe was so heart broken about how terrorists harmed our country on that day that they opened their own hear...
This had a 2.2 grading level for children in Kindergarten through second grade. A true story about an African village having remorse for the 9/11 attacks and sent 14 of their cows as a gift to show how truly bad they feel. The US Ambassador was invited and attended a ceremony where the gift was p...
What happens when a tried & true librarian's job is taken over by a guy who gets rid of all the books and replaces them with technology? The beloved librarian disappears and a dragon taker her place. This book reinforces the idea that BOTH have their place and they can work TOGETHER.When I was ...