Here is the beloved nursery tale of Jack and his friends and his famous house, with an unexpected and lively new ending. The vivid and dramatic paintings, filled with activity, will draw children in,
Many people love rabbits, hamsters, gerbils, and guinea pigs. These small animals make great pets. And there's so much to know about all of them! Which rabbits have the longest ears? How are hamsters
Have you ever wondered where fish go when the ponds and lakes freeze in the wintertime? Or what makes the sound you hear when you put your ear to a seashell? Or why snakes shed their skins? Now you ca
Photographer Dorothea Lange captured some of the most famous and moving images of the Great Depression. This biography, written by the daughter of Lange's assistant, showcases 60 of Lange's most famou
There once lived an old man and an old woman who wanted a child, so they made a little girl out of snow. When the old woman kissed her, she came to life! The old couple was very happy until the warm w
Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the next few years, she endured starvation, brutality, and forced labor in three concentration camps. Wit
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man on December 1, 1955, she made history. Her brave act sparked the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott and brought the civil rights moveme
This is a concept book to teach and delight. As a young African boy travels to visit his grandmother, he passes through the village market, where he sees lots of things Granny would like? four brooms,
An expansion of the classic nursery rhyme into a text which captures a child's perfect day in the midst of mountains, trees, flowers, and other aspects of nature
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself in Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose six-inch height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous.
These twenty stories include the great myths of Amen-Ra, who created all the creatures in the world; of Isis, searching the waters for her dead husband Osiris; of the Bennu Bird and the Book of Thoth.
From the land of fantastic castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of entrancing folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magic b
Freshly and excitingly written, this is the story of Helen and the judgement of Paris; of the gathering of the heroes and the siege of Troy; of Achilles with his vulnerable heel; of Odysseus, the last
Unravel a terrifying secret with Sherlock Holmes.When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the grounds of his estate, the locals remember the legend of the monstrous hound that haunts the moor and
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy h
Anne Frank lived a life filled with the enthusiasms and hopes shared by many young women coming into adulthood. But the times Anne lived in and wrote of in her diary made her simple life extraordinar
