Boxes for Katje

Boxes for Katje
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2003-09-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780374309220

Boxes for Katje (HC)

Beacons of Light

Beacons of Light
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1990-03-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780688073794

FLASH... FLASH... FLASH...A lighthouse signals from the rocky shore, guiding ships away from danger. Once sailors watched for giant bonfires that were set high on hills. Now, most lighthouses are fully automated. In Beacons of Light: Lighthouses, Gail Gibbons tells all about these beautiful and useful structures, using careful explanations, colorful facts, and helpful illustrations to show how lighthouse technology has developed and changed over the years. FLASH... FLASH... FLASH... In this informative, delightfully evocative book, lighthouses are beacons of light thatremind us of our past.

The Patchwork Quilt

The Patchwork Quilt
Author: Valerie Flournoy
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1985-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0803700970

Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.

How Dalia Put a Big Yellow Comforter Inside a Tiny Blue Box

How Dalia Put a Big Yellow Comforter Inside a Tiny Blue Box
Author: Linda Heller
Publisher: Tricycle Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2011-08-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1582463786

Is Dalia’s little blue box magic—or is the real magic the generosity that helps her fill it? When Dalia learns about tzedakah, the Jewish tradition of charity and caring, she creates a tzedakah box where she can keep the money she’s saved to help those in need. Her little brother Yossi is curious about the Hebrew letters painted on the box. "Are those letters magic?" he asks. They must be because Dalia tells him she's putting a big yellow comforter, a butterfly bush, and a banana cream pie inside of it! How ever will she do it? Though there may be joy in receiving, Dalia’s story serves as a powerful reminder that the greatest joy of all comes from giving generously to others.

Papa's Mechanical Fish

Papa's Mechanical Fish
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1466844493

Candace Fleming and illustrator Boris Kulikov pair up to tell a fun story about a real submarine inventor in Papa's Mechanical Fish Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr! That's the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that's because he hasn't yet found a truly fantastic idea. But when he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, his daughter Virena asks, "Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a fish?"—and Papa is off to his workshop. With a lot of persistence and a little bit of help, Papa—who is based on the real-life inventor Lodner Phillips—creates a submarine that can take his family for a trip to the bottom of Lake Michigan.

Move Your Bus

Move Your Bus
Author: Ron Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501105035

A guidebook to successful leadership explains that by looking at an organization as a bus and the employees as the people on it, managers can identify who is helping the bus move, and who is hindering it.

Sunny Boy!

Sunny Boy!
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2005-08-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780374372972

I have always longed for the quiet life. So begins Sunny Boy’s tale. As a young tortoise, he enjoys a peaceful life – inhaling the sweet smell of orchids, reciting Latin, licking stamps – year after quiet year. But fate twists, and our hero falls into the hands of Biff the Brave, an accident-prone performer of daredevil deeds. When Biff attempts his most dangerous stunt – going over Niagara Falls in a barrel – the shy and retiring Sunny Boy is suddenly swept into history’s limelight. This wild, funny tale is based on the story of an actual tortoise who went over the falls. Exuberant watercolors full of witty details add to this celebration of the adventurous spirit that resides in us all.

My Beak, Your Beak

My Beak, Your Beak
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618150793

Looks at what pairs of animals have in common, despite their obvious differences, such as sharks swimming in the deep ocean and goldfish swimming in a bowl both blowing bubbles.

The House That's Your Home

The House That's Your Home
Author: Sally Lloyd-Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2015
Genre: Families
ISBN: 0375858849

Celebrates all the things that make one's home special, including the family that dwells there.

This Is the Baby

This Is the Baby
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2004-08-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780374374860

Clever illustrations show the comic battle of wills between a toddler who can't stand getting dressed and the mother who is determined to dress her baby.