From the bestselling team that created I Am Yoga and I Am Peace comes a hopeful celebration of the human family, which affirms that although we may make mistakes, we can make good choices by acting with compassion and having empathy for others and ourselves.
In this multicultural picture book, Carrie goes from one neighbor's house to the next looking for her brother, who is late for dinner. She discovers that although each family is from a different country, everyone makes a rice dish at dinnertime. Readers will enjoy trying the simple recipes that correspond to each family's unique rice dish.
The story of a plump, lazy, but highly imaginative ginger cat whose hair-raising account of his confrontation with a gang of ruthless burglars is curiously at odds with the reality of the illustrations.
Matt and his friends head for the park and find themselves helping to rescue a boy who cannot swim. Help! I can't swim! is a story about Emily, Jose, Makayla, and Matt. They see a boy fall into deep water. He can't swim. Find out what they do and why they're called the Hero Club Kids!
Five children's classics from the creator of Peter Rabbit, enhanced by more than 120 of her illustrations in color and black-and-white. Features The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, The Story of Miss Moppet, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck, The Roly-Poly Pudding.
Abbie was afraid. She had never had to keep the lights burning by herself. But many lives depended on the lighthouse, and Papa was depending on Abbie. This is the exciting true story of Abbie Burgess, who in 1856 single-handedly kept the lighthouse lamps lit during a tremendous storm off the coast of Maine.
Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors -- the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the Latin American grocer, a retired opera singer from Germany, an African American school friend, and the Asia…
A little Scottish groundhog and his shadow share a story about Groundhog Day.
Charlie has started school and poor Ted is left sitting at home. It's not much fun being a teddy on your own and so, when the telephone starts to ring, Ted gets excited - maybe it's someone he can talk to. But no one can understand his gruffly growl until Brenda Bear from across the road calls.
John William Smith – barely more than a boy – clears land, builds a one-room house, plants three apple trees, then sits down to sip his tea and watch the sunset. He has everything a young man could want. But after many sunsets alone, John William decides he needs a wife. So he marries the wonderful Annie. As time passes, John William expands their home to accommodate children, an injured co…