Abiyoyo Returns

Abiyoyo Returns
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 9780756942762

Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding. The little town that was once threatened by the giant Abiyoyo has grown by leaps and bounds. But now that the townspeople have chopped down all their trees, every year they have floods and droughts. Worse yet, there's a giant boulder blocking up the site of their new dam! Something has to be done. Well, the young boy who helped make Abiyoyo disappear way back when now has a little girl of his own. And she knows the only way to save the town: Bring back Abiyoyo to help move the boulder. "Bring back Abiyoyo?" the townspeople cry. "The giant that eats people up?" But the little girl has a plan for that, too. Fifteen years after Pete Seeger's storysong "Abiyoyo" came to life as a picture book, his beloved giant is back in a wonderful new story. With Michael Hays's brilliant illustrations and a sing-along score included, Abiyoyo Returns is destined to become a family favorite.

Abiyoyo

Abiyoyo
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1994
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689718101

Outcasts become heroes in this picture book adaptation of a South African lullaby and folk story. No one wants to hear the little boy play his ukelele anymore...Clink, clunk, clonk. And no one wants to watch his father make things disappear...Zoop Zoop Until the day the fearsome giant Abiyoyo suddenly appears in town, and all the townspeople run for their lives and the lives of their children Nothing can stop the terrible giant Abiyoyo, nothing, that is, except the enchanting sound of the ukelele and the mysterious power of the magic wand.

My Subway Ride

My Subway Ride
Author: Paul DuBois Jacobs
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2004-08-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781586853570

Relates the sights and sounds of a subway ride through the boroughs of New York City.

The Gold Cadillac

The Gold Cadillac
Author: Mildred D. Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 65
Release: 1998-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0140389636

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. A drive South becomes dangerous for ‘lois and her family. 'Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi. But as they travel deeper into the rural South, there are no admiring glances for the shiny new car; only suspicion and anger for the black man behind the wheel. For the first time in their lives, Lois and her sister know what it's like to feel scared because of the color of their skin. "A personal, poignant look at a black child's first experience with institutional racism."--The New York Times

Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book

Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780156013116

For children raised on Abiyoyo here's a cozy collection of old and new classics to share with parents. Each section is preceded by an introduction describing the origins of the stories. Also included is a brief afterword for each story, suggesting ways to personalize the stories for the reader's own family. The book ends with a collection of story beginnings to help anyone become a storyteller.

Putting on a Play

Putting on a Play
Author: Paul DuBois Jacobs
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781586857677

Contains everything you need to put on your own play with your friends, including how to write a script, design a set, make costumes, and act a part.

First Year Letters

First Year Letters
Author: Julie Danneberg
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2003-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 160734243X

The children in Mrs. Sarah Jane Hartwell's class write letters to her.

My Taxi Ride

My Taxi Ride
Author: Paul DuBois Jacobs
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1423600738

Illustrations and rhythmic text describe the sights and sounds of a taxi ride in New York City.

I Saw Esau

I Saw Esau
Author: Iona Opie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1992
Genre: Children's poetry, English
ISBN: 9780744521511

A collection of rhymes that have been chanted by children for generations including rhymes of insult and retaliation, of teasing and repartee, rhymes for skipping and for counting out, riddles, tongue-twisters, narratives and nonsense.

Ghosts in the House

Ghosts in the House
Author: Shirley Jones
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2003-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781592867486