Pocket Guide to the Outdoors
Generations of readers have escaped into the woods with My Side of the Mountain, the story of a city boy named Sam who learns to live in the wild. Now, Newbery winner Jean Craighead George offers an easy-to-follow guide for fans who want to live the adventure?just like Sam. Learn how to start a fire, […]
The Buffalo Are Back
Booklist: Succinctly and gracefully written…Illustrated with beautiful landscape paintings and striking close-ups of people and animals
The Great Adventure : Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 7 Up?Bully! Marrin does it again, this time with a survey of Roosevelt's robust contribution to our country's political history and to the office of the presidency itself. Born into a rapidly changing industrial America, Roosevelt expanded the influence of the executive branch to tackle labor disputes, corporate […]
The Moon Might Be Milk
Rosie wonders what the moon is made of. Using milk, butter, sugar, and other ingredients, Gran shows Rosie how to bake moon-shaped cookies and captures a magical piece of the moon in her very own kitchen. Full color.
Little Moon Dog
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. The team behind The Tin Forest delivers another otherworldly tale with a magical bent and a moral. Mischievous fairies, paying their yearly visit to the moon to plunder its gardens and beaches for "sticky moon candy," entice Little Moon Dog away from the Man in the Moon, a bespectacled, long-haired, […]
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!
School Library Journal Review: Gr 2-4?Kudlinski presents a number of early dino theories?a spike on the nose of the Iguanodon, drawings that depicted dinosaurs dragging their tails in the mud and running on spraddled, lizardlike legs?and shows, in her simple text, how further discoveries disproved these, and other, assumptions. She includes data on present-day concerns […]
The Star of Kazan
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 5-8?Abandoned as a baby, Annika is found and adopted by Ellie and Sigrid, cook and housemaid for three professors. Growing up in early-20th-century Vienna, she learns to cook and clean and is perfectly happy until a beautiful aristocrat appears and claims to be her mother, sweeping her off […]