Children's Books
Common Critters: The Wildlife in Your Neighborhood
Hardback
Common Critters celebrates neighborhood wildlife in verse. A familiar cast of characters—worms, slugs, caterpillars, ladybugs, robins, mourning doves, houseflies, spiders, squirrels, skunks, and others—crawls, runs, buzzes, and flits through these lively poems, which show how exotic these seemingly ordinary creatures really are.
The Lunch Thief: A Story of Hunger, Homelessness and Friendship
Paperback
His mom had packed his lunch bag with two burritos, a bag of corn chips, some carrots, and an apple. Once a week she tucks in a slice of her...
The Buddy Bench
Hardback
Having seen what being left out is like, children become agents of change, convincing their teacher to let them build a buddy bench.
Miss Pinkeltink's Purse
Hardback
"Rosy-cheeked and quite antique, Miss Pinkeltink / carried everything but the kitchen sink. / Her purse was so big that it dragged on the floor. /...
Talking Walls: Discover Your World
Paperback
If walls could talk, what would they say? Perhaps they would tell us who built them and why. Maybe they could even tell us about people's lives today or about how our ancestors lived thousands of years ago.