The Big Umbrella

The Big Umbrella
Author: Amy June Bates
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 153440659X

“A subtle, deceptively simple book about inclusion, hospitality, and welcoming the ‘other.’” —Kirkus Reviews “A boundlessly inclusive spirit...This open-ended picture book creates a natural springboard for discussion.” —Booklist “This sweet extended metaphor uses an umbrella to demonstrate how kindness and inclusion work...A lovely addition to any library collection, for classroom use or for sharing at home.” —School Library Journal In the tradition of Alison McGhee’s Someday, beloved illustrator Amy June Bates makes her authorial debut alongside her eleven-year-old daughter with this timely and timeless picture book about acceptance. By the door there is an umbrella. It is big. It is so big that when it starts to rain there is room for everyone underneath. It doesn’t matter if you are tall. Or plaid. Or hairy. It doesn’t matter how many legs you have. Don’t worry that there won’t be enough room under the umbrella. Because there will always be room. Lush illustrations and simple, lyrical text subtly address themes of inclusion and tolerance in this sweet story that accomplished illustrator Amy June Bates cowrote with her daughter, Juniper, while walking to school together in the rain.

The Umbrella Man and Other Stories

The Umbrella Man and Other Stories
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1101636289

Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about the landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? These compelling tales are a perfect introduction to the adult writing of a storytelling genius.

The Umbrella

The Umbrella
Author: Ingrid Schubert
Publisher: Lemniscaat
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781788070089

On a windy day, a little dog finds an umbrella in the garden. Just when the dog picks up the umbrella, it catches the wind and pulls the dog up into the sky. This is the start of a fantastic journey around the world. The wind carries the umbrella and the dog all over the world, from the desert to the sea, from the jungle to the North Pole. . .

The Umbrella

The Umbrella
Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399255400

Jan Brett's New York Times bestselling picture book The Umbrella has all the rollicking fun of the woodland animals that crowd into a mitten in the snow in The Mitten. Only this time it's in a lush cloud forest as one by one, tree frog, toucan, kinkajou, baby tapir, quetzal, monkey, and jaguar crowd into an open, upside down banana umbrella until a tiny hummingbird lands and they all fall out. A shortened text for toddlers and simple Spanish phrases like "Hola!" add to the fun of reading aloud this lively board book.

The Umbrella Lady

The Umbrella Lady
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Gallery Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982114479

A young girl who has lost her father finds herself at the mercy of a mysterious woman who is not quite what she seems in this atmospheric and unputdownable novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic series turned into popular Lifetime movies. Left on a train platform in an unfamiliar village, little Saffron Faith Anders is certain her father will return shortly, just like he promised. She holds out hope even as the hours pass and the station grows dark. When a strange old woman with a large umbrella approaches and inquiries about her situation, Saffron doesn’t immediately trust the imposing do-gooder, but with the chances of her father returning growing ever slimmer, she agrees to rest at the old woman’s house. Her stay was supposed to be for a few minutes, hours at most, but soon, Saffron soon realizes she has been confined to a house of dark secrets and is now at the mercy of the enigmatic Umbrella Lady. One minute grandmotherly and the next wickedly cruel, she shears Saffron’s hair, burns all the clothes she had in her suitcase, and pretends that the photo of a young girl hanging on her bedroom wall is no one in particular. When strange letters arrive from Saffron’s father, claiming that he will send for her shortly, hope returns to her young heart. But Saffron soon discovers that those who claim to love you will often hurt you the most....

Under the Umbrella

Under the Umbrella
Author: Catherine Buquet
Publisher: Pajama Press Inc.
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1772780162

The weather has never been worse. The man with the stormy heart is soaked and he's going to be late! His mood is as black as the sky. Outside a nearby patisserie, a little boy stands under the shelter of its awning, gazing at the beautiful treats on display. When the wind snatches the man's umbrella and drops it at the child's feet, can this hasty curmudgeon slow down long enough for an unlikely friendship to blossom? Catherine Buquet's touching debut in lyrical rhyme, accompanied by Marion Arbona's bold and stylish illustrations, celebrates intergenerational friendship and the magic of sharing. It also reminds children and adults alike that bright moments can be found on even the gloomiest of days.

Genie

Genie
Author: Susan Curtiss
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-05-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1483217612

Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day "Wild Child reports on the linguistic research carried out through studying and working with Genie, a deprived and isolated, to an unprecedented degree, girl who was not discovered until she was an adolescent. An inhuman childhood had prevented Genie from learning language, and she knew little about the world in any respect save abuse, neglect, isolation, and deprivation. This book is organized into three parts encompassing 11 chapters. Part I provides a case history and background material on Genie's personality and language behavior. This part describes the interaction between the authors and this remarkable girl. Part II details Genie's linguistic development and overall language abilities, specifically her phonological development, as well as receptive knowledge and productive grammatical abilities of syntax, morphology, and semantics. This part also provides a comparison between her linguistic development and the language acquisition of other children. Part III presents a full description of the neurolinguistic work carried out on Genie and discusses the implications of this aspect of the case. This book will prove useful to neurolinguistics and pyscholinguistics.

The Green Umbrella

The Green Umbrella
Author: Jackie Azúa Kramer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0735842183

When Elephant takes a quiet stroll with his green umbrella, he's hindered by Hedgehog, Cat, Bear, and Rabbit, each asserting that his umbrella is truly their boat, tent, flying machine, and cane.

Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid

Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid
Author: Paul Shaw
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-06-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 150350610X

2 Excitement-packed Escapades!! FEAR CAN BE FATAL: Beware the moor at night when the moon is high, the shadows long and the pubs closed thats when the Phantom Fiery Giraffe haunts the land! The sinister Snakecharmer strikes leaving the Umbrella Kid stricken with a slight case of Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). He is packed off to the exclusive mountain-top Phobia Clinic of famous Doctor Balthazar Batkiss, where he discovers all manner of mystery: mountainside ghost-train rides, an exiled dictator laden with the stolen Crown Jewels of Qvania, not to mention a Giant Brain throbbing away in the basement! Meanwhile, Captain Cat is up to his wire whiskers in even more mystery: why have all the workers at a fly-spray factory been replaced with gangsters armed with tubas and trombones? Why is an African witchdoctor dancing out on the moors in the dead of night? And just why are all the locals so afraid of the eerie Phantom Fiery Giraffe? Before this Harrowing Adventure is over, Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid will learn that Fear Can Be Fatal! THE AUNT FROM THE BLOOD LAGOON: Acid peach-bombs pelt Captain Cats penthouse HQ, an unprovoked attack by perfidious gangster The Peach! A berserk robot postman batters at the front door! A giant gorilla kidnaps Aunt Titania! What does it all mean? The trail leads Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid to murky Blood Lagoon and the Horrors stirring within the submerged, seemingly long-abandoned Tix Top Toaster factory Sinister sextuplets, the Tix Brothers, are hatching an Insane Plot: to appropriate (ie steal) the amazing Captain Cat Crime Catalogue Computer! To achieve this goal, they unleash the Greatest Horror to Ever Walk the Earth an army of android aunts, marching up out of Blood Lagoon and invading Maxburg City. Will Captain Cat be able to put a spanner in their works? Will the Umbrella Kid, cornered by bossy aunts, finally be forced to tidy his room or will he have to take the only means of escape: leaping out of the window of the thirteenth tallest building in the world? The Aunt From the Blood Lagoon Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kids Most Awesome, Epic Adventure ever!!

The Umbrella

The Umbrella
Author: Lisa Lebedovich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781772290523

One day Sebastian wakes up to find a little grey raincloud floating above his head. Afraid of getting wet, he carries a big umbrella everywhere he goes. Sure, the umbrella keeps him safe and dry (and ensures he never has to share a seat on the school bus) but it also makes it hard for him to play games, meet new friends and watch his favourite show. Where did the raincloud come from? And, more importantly, will it ever go away?