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This category includes Books that are about books! Below you will find books featuring book clubs, libraries, librarians, bookstores, or just books where a story or novel plays a central role in the plot.

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This collection includes poems that are meant for elementary students of all different ages! Poetry is important to have in the classroom because students can think outside the box and read through their imagination. There are fun and creative poems, mysterious poems, and many more!

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This collection includes books for students that are at the transitional level of reading. This means that students are able to demonstrate broader and richer elements of reading that allow them to obtain information from what they read, explore various genres, maintain interest in an entire book, and enjoy reading as an engaging activity.

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This category includes books that were my personal favorites as a kid because they showed me how enjoyable and fun reading can be!

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I loved Junie B. Jones collection because it told the story of a young girl that was going into kindergarden. She is funny, honest, and spontaneous. These books allowed me to connect with Junie B. Jones experiences as a student and young girl!

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Laugh yourself silly with Junie B. Jones

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Laugh yourself silly with Junie B. Jones, the world's funniest first grader.

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I love this book because of how fun, colorful, and shiny the pictures are throughout the whole thing! The rainbow fish portrays important traits that all kids should read as an example for themselves. The fish is caring, thoughtful, and giving. This book always made me feel good after reading it!

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🐟 Kids Book Read Aloud: THE RAINBOW FISH by Marcus Pfister

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The Magic Treehouse Collection by Mary Pope Osborne

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The Magic Treehouse Collection by Mary Pope Osborne

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I love the Magic Treehouse collection because I felt like I was going on the crazy adventures with the two kids just from how descriptive and realistic the stories are. They are funny, adventurous reads that allow you to picture exactly what is happening to your own imagination!

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ABOUT MAGIC TREE HOUSE®:

Widely regarded among parents, teachers, and librarians for its power to instill a passion for reading, Mary Pope Osborne's award-winning, #1 New York Times best selling Magic Tree House series is an international phenomenon and has sold more than 134 million books worldwide since its debut in 1992. The books have been translated into 33 different languages in over 30 international markets. All Magic Tree House books are available in print, as ebooks and Listening Library audio books, which are all narrated by Mary Pope Osborne. Visit WWW.MAGICTREEHOUSE.COM for more information about the series, activities, and more.

MARY POPE OSBORNE is an ardent advocate and supporter of children's literacy, and the award-winning author of more than 100 books for children and young adults, including novels, retellings of mythology and folklore, picture books, biographies, and mysteries. From 1993-1997, Ms. Osborne served as president of the Authors Guild, the country's leading organization for published authors. She has traveled extensively in the U.S. and abroad, visiting schools and speaking on issues related to children's literacy. She spoke at the UN regarding the importance of worldwide literacy and was profiled on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams for her continued efforts. Mary has donated over 350,000 books to underserved children across the country through her Gift of Books program. She resides in Connecticut. The creator of the Magic Tree House series, Ms. Osborne is also the coauthor of the companion Magic Tree House Fact Trackers series with her husband, WILL OSBORNE, and her sister, NATALIE POPE BOYCE.

Follow Mary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryPopeOsborne

The Magic Tree House Classroom Adventures Program is a free, comprehensive set of online educational resources for teachers developed by Mary Pope Osborne as gift to teachers, to thank them for their enthusiastic support of the series. Complete with free online resources including lesson plans, curriculum guides, and creative activities, the Classroom Adventures Program incorporates every book in the series, including the nonfiction Fact Tracker titles, enabling teachers to build upon students' interest in Jack and Annie's adventures, while simultaneously meeting core curriculum standards across a multitude of subjects. Educators can learn more at WWW.MTHCLASSROOMADVENTURES.ORG.

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Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, No. 1)

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Amazon.com: Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, No. 1): 9780679824114: Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca: Books

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Biscuit (My First I Can Read) by Alyssa Capucilli

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Biscuit (My First I Can Read) by Alyssa Capucilli

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This book was my favorite because I loved reading about animals (especially dogs)! Biscuit was a cute little dog that wanted more bedtime stories, more kisses, and more hugs! My parents would always read me this book at night and pretend like I was Biscuit!

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Amazon.com: Biscuit (My First I Can Read): 9780064442121: Capucilli, Alyssa Satin, Schories, Pat: Books

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The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers

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The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers

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Follows the trials and tribulations of a boy with a voracious appetite for books. Henry discovers his unusual taste by mistake one day, and is soon swept up in his new-found passion. And better still, he realises that the more books he eats, the smarter he gets. But a book-eating diet isn't the healthiest of habits as Henry finds out.

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Follows the trials and tribulations of a boy with a voracious appetite for books. Henry discovers his unusual taste by mistake one day, and is soon swept up in his new-found passion. And better still, he realises that the more books he eats, the smarter he gets.

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The Not So Quiet Library by Zachariah OHora

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The Not So Quiet Library by Zachariah OHora

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A hilarious story that celebrates the power of books and libraries in the vein of It’s a Book It’s Saturday, which means Oskar and Theodore get to go to the library with their dad! It means donuts for breakfast! And it means endless quiet hours lost in stories. But on this not so quiet Saturday, Osk…

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JANE BLATT is a primary school teacher as well as an accomplished violinist, and her musical background is evident in her lyrical writing.

SARAH MASSINI worked as a designer at several major children's book publishers before devoting herself to illustration full-time. She lives with her husband, young son, and terrier Tess, who stands guard as she draws.

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Babies and toddlers join in an exuberant celebration of books of all shapes and sizes in this charming picture book. For little kids, books can be anything from a chair, to a tower, to a hat. But once little ones discover the magical world that can be found inside a book, the best thing a book can be-is a book!

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Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat. Lola loves Tuesdays because that is the day she and her mother go to the library. Everything about the trip is an exciting adventure, from packing her backpack…

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Read 74.8k reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed nov...

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Wonder Notes [Palacio, R. J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Wonder Notes

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Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

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Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

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Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson Read Aloud

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It's a Book [Smith, Lane, Smith, Lane] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. It's a Book

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller!

Be a smart cookie-and don't miss the fifth picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Food Group series from creators Jory John and Pete Oswald!

This cookie has never felt like a smart cookie no matter how hard she tries, especially in comparison to all the clever cupcakes and brilliant rolls in the bakery. Will a dash of creativity and a sprinkle of confidence be enough to help her learn that perfect scores and having all the answers aren't the only ingredients for intelligence?

Jory John and Pete Oswald serve up another heaping plate of laughs and lessons with this empowering, witty, and charming addition to their #1 New York Times bestselling series!

Check out Jory John and Pete Oswald's other funny, bestselling books for kids 4-8 and anyone who wants a laugh:

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You're My Little Bookworm by Nicola Edwards

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You're My Little Bookworm by Nicola Edwards

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Amazon.com: You're My Little Bookworm: 9781645176787: Edwards, Nicola, Marshall, Natalie: Books

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This category is filled with books about inclusion. These books are important for me to include in my classroom because it helps kids understand and make connections with the characters that don't share the same race, religion, or socio-economic status!

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Our Class is a Family (Our Class is a Family & Our Scho…

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Read 194 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Teachers do so much more than just teach academics. They build a sense of community within…

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Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

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The Crayons' Book of Feelings by Drew Daywalt

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The Crayons' Book of Feelings by Drew Daywalt

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The crayons are back in this board book all about feelings from the creators of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Day Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home ! The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home , comes a fun board book to help young readers understand and express their feelings.

Everyone knows the crayons love to color, but did you know that crayons have feelings too? Sometimes they are happy and sometimes they feel downright blue.

From the creative minds behind the

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What we have here is an obvious swipe at anti-immigration folks, although I don't know how many kids are going to pick up on that. The big umbrella just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and even though some people think that there won't be enough room under it, there always is.

The pictures are rather cute, especially with some of the more fanciful elements (which I wasn't expecting, but liked anyway).

The book isn't so much a story as an idea, but if it helps get kids thinking about this issue, t...more

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What we have here is an obvious swipe at anti-immigration folks, although I don't know how many kids are going to pick up on that. The big umbrella just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and even though some people think that there won't be enough room under it, there always is.

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Julia Cook, M.S.

With millions of books in print, Julia Cook is a former school counselor and teacher who never dreamed she could evolve into a national award-winning children's author, parenting expert, and inspirational speaker. She now travels the world encouraging students and educators to become lifelong problem solvers. "There are so many ideas out there that need to be shared!" says Julia, who takes top research and creatively translates it into "kid language" that is both entertaining and engaging. Julia has the innate ability to enter the worldview of a child through picture books, giving children both the "what to say" and the "how to say it."

Several years ago, Julia was searching for an effective story to teach children about the differences between tattling and telling. When she couldn't find the right resource, she decided to write her own book - A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue. Over a decade later, she has published bestselling books with the National Center for Youth Issues, Boys Town Press, and the CDC. Cook's ultimate goal: make a positive difference in the lives of people both young and old by teaching lifelong problem-solving skills.

Julia has been endorsed by organizations including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Safe and Sound (a Sandy Hook initiative,) Childwatch of North America, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Childhelp, Darkness to Light, USA Volleyball, and The Alaska Department of Education. Cook's research-based books have been referenced in outlets including Parent's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Chicago Tribune, Military Spouse, Care.com, Yahoo.com, Drlaura.com, and Babyzone.com. She has also been featured on Hallmark Home and Family, CNN's HLN News, and numerous metropolitan networks. She is the recipient of several book awards including The Association of Educational Publisher's Distinguished Achievement Award, the National Parenting Seal of Approval, and The Mom's Choice Award.

Julia frequently delivers entertaining and engaging keynote addresses at counseling, business and leadership, and character development conferences and has presented in thousands of schools both nationwide and internationally.

Bestselling Titles Include: My Mouth is a Volcano! (interrupting), Bubble Gum Brain (growth mindset), A Flicker of Hope (depression and youth suicide), Uniquely Wired (autism), Jumping Into Kindergarten (kindergarten preparation), The Judgmental Flower (appreciating differences/ building relationships), Foster Care (emotions related to being in foster care), But It's Just a Game! (gaming addiction), Wilma Jean the Worry Machine (anxiety), But It's Not My Fault! (assuming responsibility), Soda Pop Head (anger control), and I Can't Believe You Said That! (using social filters).

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My Mouth Is A Volcano: A Picture Book About Interrupting

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My Mouth Is A Volcano: A Picture Book About Interrupting [Julia Cook, Carrie Hartman, Carrie Hartman] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. My Mouth Is A Volcano: A Picture Book About Interrupting

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Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal

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Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal

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A 2019 Caldecott Honor Book

"A beautifully illustrated, tender story to be shared with all children, sure to evoke conversations about their names." - School Library Journal (starred review)

If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books and flowers; Esperanza, the great-grandmother who longed to travel; José, the grandfather who was an artist; and other namesakes, too. As she hears the story of her name, Alma starts to think it might be a perfect fit after all-and realizes that she will one day have her own story to tell. In her 2019 Caldecott Honor Book, Juana Martinez-Neal opens a treasure box of discovery for children who may be curious about their own origin stories or names.

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Alma and How She Got Her Name [Martinez-Neal, Juana, Martinez-Neal, Juana] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Alma and How She Got Her Name

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Read 2,072 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices ev...

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Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2022

This is a wonderful story about a little girl who sees everyone else's good qualities as their superpowers but has trouble seeing her own. This story is great to use with students in the classroom. I read it to my students and we had an powerful discussion afterwards about their "superpowers" and were so excited to draw themselves as as the heroine in the story to wrap up our lesson. I highly recommend this book as a must for your classroom library or as a gift to a child you know. I recommend this for ages 4 - 10 years.

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018

Wonderful book! Absolutely terrific for children. Perfect for kids of divorced parents.

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2018

This is a great book for discussing children's super abilities and it ties into the First Nations culture as it is written about a young girl from Nunavut.

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2017

I credit Booger Beard.
I will explain.

While many children’s librarians will tell you that they have strived to make their book collections diverse and inclusive, they have always been hampered by what was being published in a given year. Nowhere is this more evident than when it comes to fun and funny books. Since #ownvoices and diversity are serious topics, they have been treated with great care and respect by authors and illustrators over the years. But as with anything, if you hand children meaningful, serious, heartfelt stories over and over and over and over, they’re going to get antsy. I mean, where’s the fun? After a while, they may begin to wonder why all the books about Jewish kids are about the Holocaust while all the African-American children either live during periods of slavery or the Civil Rights Era. Some books covering these topics are necessary, but do all of them have to? It’s really only been recently that’s we’ve seen children’s literature embrace diverse silliness. The aforementioned Booger Beard by “Vinny” Navarette features a Latino kid with a disgusting talent. Jake the Fake takes the notebook novel style of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and gives it a black protagonist. And then there are books like What’s My Superpower? by Aviaq Johnson. Written by a picture book debut Inuk author, the story concentrates on a kid with a penchant for superhero abilities in a contemporary Inuit community. Put another way, it’s a book kids will clamor to read, even as they learn terms like “anaana”, “inuksuk”, and “panik”. That’s its superpower.

If Nalvana knows one thing and one thing alone it is this: Superpowers are real. Not only that, but she’s quite certain that if she can just crack the code behind her own super powered abilities, she’d be a bonified hero, no question. Trouble is, Nalvana has a much easier time determining superpowers in her friends. At school she’s quick to inform ultra-fast Davidee that he has super speed. And Maata who can jump farther than anyone off of a swing? That’s flight in the making. Joanasie can build anything and Adamie is practically half fish, but what’s so special about Nalvana? The answer, as it turns out, is as clear as the nose on her face.

Good old superheroes. In the 21st century (even more so than the 20th, I’d argue) they are our shared myths. In a world where our news feed is filled with reports of violence, terror, and less than entirely capable world leaders, superheroes fill us with a shared sense of comfort. That’s cross cultural (though the studios are taking their own sweet time diversifying our cinema). Part of what I love so much about “What’s My Superpower?” is that it begins by simply assuming that the child readers know what superheroes are, know what superpowers are, and share with Nalvana a desire to be special in some way. Other picture books for kids have done similar tie-ins. For example, the lovely Lucia the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza, illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez, did a top-notch job of equating superheroes with luchadores and luchadoras. This book eschews such a direct one-to-one comparison, content merely to show how an overwhelming need to be “super” in some way is a universal condition.

For all that, the book actually doesn’t appear to see itself as a purveyor of cross-cultural understanding. There is no extensive Afterword telling kids what daily life would be like for Nalvana. It contains an Inuktitut Glossary of only four words. There aren’t any maps, nor even a mention of where Nalvana lives in the text (the story says she lives “in the very middle of a small town where winter is always longer than summer”). What is there is quite a bit subtler. As an author, Johnston does a good job of incorporating Nalvana’s daily reality into a picture book format. Child readers that are not a part of the Arctic community will come across mentions of snowmobiling goggles, inuksuk, parents that are carvers, etc. All these details flesh out the book’s sense of place, never hijacking the narrative. Nalvana lives in a 21st century Inuk household. Kinda makes you want to exchange this title for every picture book that still comes out showing the Inuit as “Eskimos” in igloos (and trust me, those books are far from gone).

What’s My Superpower? is just the latest publication from the publisher Inhabit Media. Described on their own website as an Inuit-owned publishing company that works, “to ensure that Arctic voices are heard and that they have the opportunity to contribute to Canadian literature,” they distinguish themselves from other small publishers above and beyond their core mission. The important thing to remember with Inhabit is the degree to which they work to have the best possible illustrations accompanying their books. To do this, they tap a wide range of artists. Tim Mack is the latest of these, and from what I can tell this is his picture book debut. An artist whose style replicates animators most closely, it stands to reason that a man comfortable penning monsters, aliens, and robots in his spare time could bring life to a girl with a yen for superhero antics. The funny thing is that Mack’s art is really reigned in here. We don’t see imaginary foes or flights of fancy. Even when the other kids display their “superhero” abilities, they’re realistic (and sometimes we see them after the action has taken place, which is a bit peculiar). One wonders how different the book could have been if Mack had been given free range to really let go. As it stands, he does a good job encompassing the surprisingly large amounts of text per page within his art and his characters belie their simplicity by exhibiting a range of emotions. It’s a solid start to what could well become an illustrious career. Let’s just hope Mack is allowed to get a little wilder in his future children’s book endeavors.

I’m not a huge fan of pat endings. At the finale of this book, Nalvana’s mom lets her daughter know that making people feel good about themselves is her daughter’s superpower. Nalvana accepts this explanation readily, and it’s a sweet moment, if a bit on the nose. There are plenty of kids out there who’d trade that super ability for X-ray vision or invisibility any day of the week. Now here’s the million-dollar question: Can you name this particular book’s superpowers? Any ideas? If I had to guess I’d say it has the ability to defeat stereotypes, crush misconceptions, and elevate the truth. I wouldn’t call it a perfect book but I honestly feel that kids need a wide array of diverse titles. They need historical seriousness as well as goofball delight. Johnston and Mack squarely place this book in the latter category. Kids will be all the more grateful that they did.

For ages 4-6.

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2017

Nelvana is a sweet, feisty young girl who lives in a small village in the Arctic with her mother. Every day she dons her cape and some rustic snowmobiling goggles and transforms into a super hero. But wait... superheroes have magical powers don't they? Nelvana can't pinpoint what power she possesses. What's hers she ponders?
She envies her friends Davidee who "can run faster than a Ski-Doo, Maata who swings so high she can almost fly up to the the sky and Adamie who can hold his breath underwater longer than anyone else, just to name a few. Poor Nelvana she longs to have a superpower all her own. Does she even possess one she wonders? She becomes frustrated and despondent trying to search for the magic inside of her ... what is her special power?

Finally, in tears, she crawls up on her loving Mother's lap who tells her daughter she thinks she knows exactly what Nelvana needs to hear. "Your superpower is making people feel good about themelves." It is her unique and special power that was right before her all along. Contented at long last Nalvana smiles and responds, "I think that's a good superpower to have. "

The illustrations are simply wonderful. They are full of action, emotion and very kid-friendly. The author has included a small Inuktitut Glossary at the back for the readers consisting of four words. I love that the hero is a girl touting imagination, spunk and especially kindness to all her friends. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would heartily recommend it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend!

Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2022

This is a wonderful book for introducing indigenous culture but also in helping kids build themselves up. We love reading this together and imagining what our own superpowers would be.

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it

Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2020

Fantastic book...loved absolutely everything about it. Great message, sparked discussion about Indigenous people/language. Used it in my grade 3 classroom and will read it all the beginning of every school year to spread message of kindness.

5.0 out of 5 stars As an Inuk, its a very special experience to ...

Reviewed in Canada on August 23, 2017

As an Inuk, its a very special experience to read books by Inuit authors. This one is no exception. This is the second book by Aviaq and I look forward to reading her third!

5.0 out of 5 stars Real nice book.

Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2019

This book is doooooooooope!

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book a must read for all kids

Reviewed in Canada on October 16, 2020

Great book. My students loved it.

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A really fun book about friendship. Very happy that I was able to read several pages in Spanish without looking at the English translation. Hope to build on my growing vocabulary and start to get a better feel for very simple sentence construction. Nice book for those just starting to learn Spanish.

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A really fun book about friendship. Very happy that I was able to read several pages in Spanish without looking at the English translation. Hope to build on my growing vocabulary and start to get a better feel for very simple sentence construction. Nice book for those just starting to learn Spanish.

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This collection is filled with books that were banned or challenged because of violence, political, religious, or moral reasons. Picture books can also be challenged!

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Dav Pilkey has written and illustrated numerous popular, award-winning books for children, including the Captain Underpants and Dumb Bunnies series.

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The story of The Three Little Pigs featured here has been adapted from different sources and from childhood memory. The primary sources are English Fairy Tales, retold by Flora Annie Steel (1922) with illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke from the 1904 version. This story is featured in our Favorite Fairy Tales and Children's Stories.
Once upon a time there was an old mother pig who had three little pigs and not enough food to feed them. So when they were old enough, she sent them out into the world to seek their fortunes.

The first little pig was very lazy. He didn't want to work at all and he built his house out of straw. The second little pig worked a little bit harder but he was somewhat lazy too and he built his house out of sticks. Then, they sang and danced and played together the rest of the day.

The third little pig worked hard all day and built his house with bricks. It was a sturdy house complete with a fine fireplace and chimney. It looked like it could withstand the strongest winds.

The next day, a wolf happened to pass by the lane where the three little pigs lived; and he saw the straw house, and he smelled the pig inside. He thought the pig would make a mighty fine meal and his mouth began to water.

So he knocked on the door and said:

  Little pig! Little pig!
  Let me in! Let me in!

But the little pig saw the wolf's big paws through the keyhole, so he answered back:

  No! No! No!
  Not by the hairs on my chinny chin chin!

Then the wolf showed his teeth and said:

  Then I'll huff
  and I'll puff
  and I'll blow your house down.

So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house down! The wolf opened his jaws very wide and bit down as hard as he could, but the first little pig escaped and ran away to hide with the second little pig.

The wolf continued down the lane and he passed by the second house made of sticks; and he saw the house, and he smelled the pigs inside, and his mouth began to water as he thought about the fine dinner they would make.

So he knocked on the door and said:

  Little pigs! Little pigs!
  Let me in! Let me in!

But the little pigs saw the wolf's pointy ears through the keyhole, so they answered back:

  No! No! No!
  Not by the hairs on our chinny chin chin!

So the wolf showed his teeth and said:

  Then I'll huff
  and I'll puff
  and I'll blow your house down!

So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house down! The wolf was greedy and he tried to catch both pigs at once, but he was too greedy and got neither! His big jaws clamped down on nothing but air and the two little pigs scrambled away as fast as their little hooves would carry them.

The wolf chased them down the lane and he almost caught them. But they made it to the brick house and slammed the door closed before the wolf could catch them. The three little pigs they were very frightened, they knew the wolf wanted to eat them. And that was very, very true. The wolf hadn't eaten all day and he had worked up a large appetite chasing the pigs around and now he could smell all three of them inside and he knew that the three little pigs would make a lovely feast.

So the wolf knocked on the door and said:

  Little pigs! Little pigs!
  Let me in! Let me in!

But the little pigs saw the wolf's narrow eyes through the keyhole, so they answered back:

  No! No! No!
  Not by the hairs on our chinny chin chin!

So the wolf showed his teeth and said:

  Then I'll huff
  and I'll puff
  and I'll blow your house down.

Well! he huffed and he puffed. He puffed and he huffed. And he huffed, huffed, and he puffed, puffed; but he could not blow the house down. At last, he was so out of breath that he couldn't huff and he couldn't puff anymore. So he stopped to rest and thought a bit.

But this was too much. The wolf danced about with rage and swore he would come down the chimney and eat up the little pig for his supper. But while he was climbing on to the roof the little pig made up a blazing fire and put on a big pot full of water to boil. Then, just as the wolf was coming down the chimney, the little piggy pulled off the lid, and plop! in fell the wolf into the scalding water.

So the little piggy put on the cover again, boiled the wolf up, and the three little pigs ate him for supper.

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The Three Little Pigs is a favorite from the Children's Library. Our stories, nursery rhymes, fables, and fairytales make great bedtime stories too!

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A great little story but I found it quite sad with a surprising ending! However, this book makes for an amazing science lesson for younger children and even older children. It is a fun and interesting read and can be linked to all sorts of science such as gravity.
I feel that many children can relate to the little egg character; the feeling of waiting is so boring and long but in the end it is worth it. I feel that this is an important lesson to teach children as well.

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A great little story but I found it quite sad with a surprising ending! However, this book makes for an amazing science lesson for younger children and even older children.

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The Dirty Cowboy [Adam Rex, Timberlake, Amy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Dirty Cowboy

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This fascinating book by an award winning Irish author and illustrator is a story that works on multiple levels. It is a colorful short story of two "tribal" boys in a dry wilderness having a game of king of the hill, and it is a powerful demonstration of how words can hurt...or heal. It has also on a deeper level a clear anti-war/anti-violence message.

Words in this book have a life of their own and literally transform, in multi panel form, almost like animation, to become the visual agent of change. Words shape themselves as birds, they tangle and twist into dividing barbed wire, they clot together and dam a river, causing a flood, and they form into a destructive dragon and breath fire. And ultimately, they form into redemptive rain that brings beautiful poppies.

This is a book that can be enjoyed for it's sheer exuberence and artistry, or treasured for it's deeper message of respect and peace. One need not come from a land of sectarian violence such as Ireland to appreciate it's thoughtful lasting impression. Buy it!

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I Am I [Fitzpatrick, Marie-Louise, Fitzpatrick, Marie-Louise] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. I Am I

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As of 2022, As of 2022, not really. There is a narration with video, but it would hardly seem relevant to count it: not really. There is a narration with video, but it would hardly seem relevant to count it:
* If I Ran the Zoo (1992) (Short Video)
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Little Red Riding Hood by Trine Schart Hyman

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Little Red Riding Hood by Trine Schart Hyman

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Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else. So she was always called Little Red Riding Hood.

One day her mother said to her, "Come, Little Red Riding Hood, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing. And when you go into her room, don't forget to say, good-morning, and don't peep into every corner before you do it."

I will take great care, said Little Red Riding Hood to her mother, and gave her hand on it.

The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red Riding Hood entered the wood, a wolf met her. Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.

"Good-day, Little Red Riding Hood," said he.

"Thank you kindly, wolf."

"Whither away so early, Little Red Riding Hood?"

"To my grandmother's."

"What have you got in your apron?"

"Cake and wine. Yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger."

"Where does your grandmother live, Little Red Riding Hood?"

"A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood. Her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below. You surely must know it," replied Little Red Riding Hood.

The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature. What a nice plump mouthful, she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both." So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, and then he said, "see Little Red Riding Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here. Why do you not look round. I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing. You walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry."

Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought, suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay. That would please her too. It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time. And so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers. And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.

Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door.

"Who is there?"

"Little Red Riding Hood," replied the wolf. "She is bringing cake and wine. Open the door."

"Lift the latch," called out the grandmother, "I am too weak, and cannot get up."

The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother's bed, and devoured her. Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap, laid himself in bed and drew the curtains.

Little Red Riding Hood, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her.

She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said to herself, oh dear, how uneasy I feel to-day, and at other times I like being with grandmother so much.

She called out, "Good morning," but received no answer. So she went to the bed and drew back the curtains. There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.

"Oh, grandmother," she said, "what big ears you have."

"The better to hear you with, my child," was the reply.

"But, grandmother, what big eyes you have," she said.

"The better to see you with, my dear."

"But, grandmother, what large hands you have."

"The better to hug you with."

"Oh, but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have."

"The better to eat you with."

And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Little Red Riding Hood.

When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself, how the old woman is snoring. I must just see if she wants anything.

So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. "Do I find you here, you old sinner," said he. "I have long sought you."

Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf.

When he had made two snips, he saw the Little Red Riding Hood shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying, "Ah, how frightened I have been. How dark it was inside the wolf."

And after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Little Red Riding Hood, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf's belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead.

Then all three were delighted. The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and went home with it. The grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Little Red Riding Hood had brought, and revived, but Little Red Riding Hood thought to herself, as long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.

It is also related that once when Little Red Riding Hood was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path. Little Red Riding Hood, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said good-morning to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up. "Well," said the grandmother, "we will shut the door, that he may not come in."

Soon afterwards the wolf knocked, and cried, "open the door, grandmother, I am Little Red Riding Hood, and am bringing you some cakes."

But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Little Red Riding Hood went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness. But the grandmother saw what was in his thoughts. In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child, take the pail, Little Red Riding Hood. I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough. Little Red Riding Hood carried until the great trough was quite full. Then the smell of the sausages reached the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at last stretched out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his footing and began to slip, and slipped down from the roof straight into the great trough, and was drowned. But Little Red Riding Hood went joyously home, and no one ever did anything to harm her again.

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Little Red Riding Hood is a favorite from the Children's Library. Our stories, nursery rhymes, fables, and fairytales make great bedtime stories too!

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A heartbreakingly spare story about the heat death of the universe. One by one the things of the world are bid adieu. Beginning with small losses--clocks, socks, a young mouse who will never reach adulthood, the stakes rise relentlessly until the loss of the atmosphere, stars, and sound itself. In the end the illustrated moon shines on, a reminder of things lost, but the protagonist--and the reader--are left sleeping in the dark.

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A heartbreakingly spare story about the heat death of the universe. One by one the things of the world are bid adieu. Beginning with small losses--clocks, socks, a young mouse who will never reach adulthood, the stakes rise relentlessly until the loss of the atmosphere, stars, and sound itself.

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin

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Donovan's Big Day has 191 ratings and 57 reviews. Randie said: Donovan has much to do in preparation for his big day...or more like his mothers' big day....

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This collection is filled with award winning children's books! Included is winners of the Newbery medal, Caldecott medal, Coretta Scott King llustrator award, and Pura Belpre Illustrator award.

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The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

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The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

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Amazon.com: The Last Cuentista: 9781646140893: Higuera, Donna Barba: Books

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Read 1,091 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Gathering watercress by the side of the road brings a girl closer to her family’s Chines…

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre [Weatherford, Carole Boston, Cooper, Floyd] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

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Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge by Raul the Third

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Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge by Raul the Third

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Little Lobo and Bernabé are back in this joyful story about coming together and celebrating community, a lively follow-up to ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat, by Pura Belpré Medal-winning author-illustrator Raúl the Third.

People are always crossing the bridge for work, to visit family, or for play. Some going this way; others going that way. Back and forth they go. With friends on foot and in bicycles, in cars and trucks, the bridge is an incredibly busy place with many different types of vehicles.

Little Lobo and his dog Bernabé have a new truck and they are using it to carry party supplies over the bridge with their pals El Toro and La Oink Oink. The line is long and everyone on the bridge is stuck. How will they pass the time? Eventually everyone comes together for an epic party on the bridge between two different countries. Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go gets Mexican American makeover in this joyful story about coming together.

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¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge (World of ¡Vamos!)

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¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge (World of ¡Vamos!) - Kindle edition by Raúl the Third. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge (World of ¡Vamos!).

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A deluxe gift package of the classic holiday Caldecott Medal winner combines the story of a young boy's Christmas Eve visit to a magical North Pole with a commemorative ornament and the complete story narrated on an accompanying cassette and CD. Read by Liam Neeson.

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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

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Mo Willems' acclaimed picture book debut in a brand new board book format.When a bus driver takes a break in this hilarious Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, he gives the reader just one instruction: "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" But, boy, that pigeon tries every trick in the book to ...

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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak's Caldecott Medal-winning picture book has become one of the most highly acclaimed and best-loved children's books of all time. A must for every child's bookshelf.

This iconic story has inspired a movie, an opera, and the imagination of generations. When Max dresses in his wolf suit and causes havoc in the house, his mother sends him to bed. From there, Max sets sail to an island inhabited by the Wild Things, who name him king and share a wild rumpus with him. But then from far away across the world, Max smells good things to eat...

Let the wild rumpus continue as this classic comes to life like never before with new reproductions of Maurice Sendak's artwork. Astonishing state-of-the-art technology faithfully captures the color and detail of the original illustrations. Sendak himself enthusiastically endorsed this impressive new interpretation of his art.

Mary Pols of Time magazine wrote that "what makes Sendak's book so compelling is its grounding effect: Max has a tantrum and in a flight of fancy visits his wild side, but he is pulled back by a belief in parental love to a supper 'still hot." Generations have shared this beautiful picture book, and children of all ages will want to return to it again and again.

New York Public Library's #4 book on the list of "Top Check-Outs of All Time"

One of the National Education Association's "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children"

The top picture book in School Library Journal's survey of its readers

Maurice Sendak was also the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There , Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library .

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Where the Wild Things Are [Maurice Sendak, Maurice Sendak] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Where the Wild Things Are

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I Want My Hat Back - Teaching Children Philosophy - Prindle Institute

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This Teaching Children Philosophy book module for I Want My Hat Back guides students through a discussion on the morality of lying, stealing and killing.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

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Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has eaten its way into the hearts of literally millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 62 languages and sold over 41 million copies. Since the Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than 70 books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote.

Carle says: "With many of my books I attempt to bridge the gap between the home and school. To me home represents, or should represent; warmth, security, toys, holding hands, being held. School is a strange and new place for a child. Will it be a happy place? There are new people, a teacher, classmates - will they be friendly? I believe the passage from home to school is the second biggest trauma of childhood; the first is, of course, being born. Indeed, in both cases we leave a place of warmth and protection for one that is unknown. The unknown often brings fear with it. In my books I try to counteract this fear, to replace it with a positive message. I believe that children are naturally creative and eager to learn. I want to show them that learning is really both fascinating and fun."

Eric Carle has two grown-up children, a son and a daughter. He divides his time between the Florida Keys and the hills of North Carolina.

For more information about Eric Carle and his books please visit:

The Official Eric Carle web site: http://www.eric-carle.com

Eric Carle's Blog: http://www.ericcarleblog.blogspot.com

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: http://www.carlemuseum.org

The World of Eric Carle Amazon UK page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/l/1658013031

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This collection of books focuses on children's books that talk about the event in history that happened on September 11th, 2001. This tragedy is important for kids to learn about because they may have a certain understanding of current events that come from a variety of sources like their families, schools, friends, and social media.

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Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman

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Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman

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The John J. Harvey fireboat was the largest, fastest, shiniest fireboatof its time, but by 1995, the city didn't need old fireboats anymore. So the Harvey retired, until a group of friends decided to save it from the scrap heap. Then, one sunny September day in 2001, something so horrible happened that the whole world shook. And a call came from the fire department, asking if the Harvey could battle the roaring flames. In this inspiring true story, Maira Kalman brings a New York City icon to life and proves that old heroes never die.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:

9780142403624

Publisher:

Penguin Young Readers Group

Publication date:

08/04/2005

Edition description:

Reprint

Pages:

48

Sales rank:

54,089

Product dimensions:

10.06(w) x 10.06(h) x 0.17(d)

Lexile:

AD280L ( what's this?)

Age Range:

5 - 8 Years

About the Author

In her own words: "born. bucolic childhood. culture-stuffed adolescence. played piano. stopped. danced. stopped. wrote. discarded writing. drew. reinstated writing. married Tibor Kalman and collaborated at iconoclastic yet successful design studio. wrote and painted children's books. worried. took up Ping-Pong. relaxed. wrote and painted for many magazines. cofounded the Rubber Band Society. amused. children: two. dog: one."

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

November 15, 1949

Place of Birth:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Education:

New York University, 1967-70

Editorial Reviews

* "Kalman does some extraordinary things in this beautiful picture book. She takes the fireboat's history and puts it within the context of a city that has endured, framing the enormity of 9/11 so young readers, and even small children, can begin to grasp what happened. At the same time, she makes the event part of life's continuum of loss and endurance. Her artistry is as compassionate as it is brilliant. Wonderful, sweeping images of New York icons bring the city to life; detailed images of the Harvey do the same for the boat. . . . It is vivid, but the stark, sensitive rendering is also somehow easier to absorb than the horrible photographs burned into our hearts. By focusing on the boat and the people who worked on it, loved it, and placed it at the service of their city, Kalman casts a blessing far and wide. . . . A hundred years from now, when people want to know what we told our children about 9/11, Kalman's book should be among the first answers." -Booklist, starred review

* "Fireboat does many things. It sets forth an adventure, helps commemorate an anniversary, offers an interesting bit of history, celebrates the underdog, and honors the fire-fighting profession. Children and adults will respond to it in as many ways." -School Library Journal, starred review

* "Kalman intelligently conveys those unfathomable events in a way that a picture book audience can comprehend. . . . With this inspiring book, Kalman sensitively handles a difficult subject in an age-appropriate manner." -Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "Among the many literary tributes to 9-11 heroism, Kalman's is particularly exciting, uplifting, and child-sensitive. . . . Revisits the tragedy without the terror and conveys pride without preachiness." -The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review

* "Quintessential New York artist Kalman gives us an idiosyncratic but informative look at a Big Apple institution. . . . Kalman's use of the events of September 11 is honest and honorable, and rarely is she as straightforward as she is here." -The Horn Book, starred review

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The John J. Harvey fireboat was the largest, fastest, shiniest fireboatof its time, but by 1995, the city didn't need old fireboats anymore. So the Harvey retired, until a group of friends decided to save it from the scrap heap. Then, one sunny September day in 2001, something so horrible...

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The Man Who Walked Between The Towers by Mordicai Gerstein

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The Man Who Walked Between The Towers by Mordicai Gerstein

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The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and—in two dramatic foldout spreads— the vertiginous drama of Petit's feat.

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal, the winner of the 2004 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books, and the winner of the 2006 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.

Product Details

ISBN-13:

9780312368784

Publisher:

Square Fish

Publication date:

04/17/2007

Edition description:

Reprint

Pages:

44

Sales rank:

57,254

Product dimensions:

7.87(w) x 10.81(h) x 0.12(d)

Lexile:

AD640L ( what's this?)

Age Range:

5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had four books named New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art, which his mother cut out of Life magazine, and by children's books from the library: "I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures."

He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and then got a job in an animated cartoon studio that sent him to New York, where he designed characters and thought up ideas for TV commercials. When a writer named Elizabeth Levy asked him to illustrate a humorous mystery story about two girls and a dog, his book career began, and soon he moved on to writing as well as illustrating. The author of more than forty books, Gerstein lived in Westhampton, Massachusetts.

Hometown:

Northhampton, Massachusetts

Date of Birth:

November 25, 1935

Place of Birth:

Los Angeles, California

Education:

Chouinard Institute of Art

Editorial Reviews

Gerstein's ink and oil paintings of that "joyful morning" aren't for anyone with a fear of heights; the perspectives are dizzying enough to make the strongest stomach lurch. — Elizabeth Ward

The Washington Post

This effectively spare, lyrical account chronicles Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between Manhattan's World Trade Center towers in 1974. Gerstein (What Charlie Heard) begins the book like a fairy tale, "Once there were two towers side by side. They were each a quarter of a mile high... The tallest buildings in New York City." The author casts the French aerialist and street performer as the hero: "A young man saw them rise into the sky.... He loved to walk and dance on a rope he tied between two trees." As the man makes his way across the rope from one tree to the other, the towers loom in the background. When Philippe gazes at the twin buildings, he looks "not at the towers but at the space between them.... What a wonderful place to stretch a rope; a wire on which to walk." Disguised as construction workers, he and a friend haul a 440-pound reel of cable and other materials onto the roof of the south tower. How Philippe and his pals hang the cable over the 140-feet distance is in itself a fascinating-and harrowing-story, charted in a series of vertical and horizontal ink and oil panels. An inventive foldout tracking Philippe's progress across the wire offers dizzying views of the city below; a turn of the page transforms readers' vantage point into a vertical view of the feat from street level. When police race to the top of one tower's roof, threatening arrest, Philippe moves back and forth between the towers ("As long as he stayed on the wire he was free"). Gerstein's dramatic paintings include some perspectives bound to take any reader's breath away. Truly affecting is the book's final painting of the imagined imprint of the towers, now existing "in memory"-linked by Philippe and his high wire. Ages 5-8. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

K-Gr 6-In 1974, a young Frenchman saw the completion of the World Trade Center towers as an irresistible invitation to stretch a cable between them and dance across it. Gorgeous oil-and-ink paintings capture the aerialist's spirited feat and breathtaking perspectives high above Manhattan harbor. Winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

A spare recounting of Philippe Petit's daring 1974 wire walk between the Twin Towers depicts him as a street performer who defies authority to risk his feat, is arrested, and then sentenced to perform for the children of New York. At the conclusion, on the only non-illustrated page are the stark words, "Now the towers are gone," followed by the changed skyline and finally by a skyline on which are etched the ghost-like shapes of the towers as memory of the buildings and of Petit's exploit. At the heart are the spreads of Petit on the narrow wire, so far above the city that Earth's curve is visible. Two ingenious gatefolds draw readers' eyes into the vertiginous sweep of wirewalker-sky and city below. Unparalleled use of perspective and line-architectural verticals opposed to the curve of wires and earth-underscore disequilibrium and freedom. In a story that's all about balance, the illustrations display it exquisitely in composition. Readers of all ages will return to this again and again for its history, adventure, humor, and breathtaking homage to extraordinary buildings and a remarkable man. (Picture book/nonfiction. 5+)

Kirkus Reviews

Gerstein's dramatic paintings include some perspectives bound to take any reader's breath away. Truly affecting." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"Readers of all ages will return to this again and again for its history, adventure, humor, and breathtaking homage to extraordinary buildings and a remarkable man." - Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

"With its graceful majesty and mythic overtones, this unique and uplifting book is at once a portrait of a larger-than-life individual and a memorial to the towers and the lives associated with them." - School Library Journal (Starred Review)

From the Publisher

In 1974, Philippe Petit, a French aerialist and street performer, disguised himself as a construction worker and shot a strong wire from one tower of the World Trade Center to the other. In a death-defying dance, Petit crossed the 140 feet between the towers, a quarter of a mile above New York City. Petit was arrested and sentenced to perform for children in the parks. Gerstein's reading is congenial and disarming. His images are spare yet lyrical, magical and poetic; his performance, completely engaging. His understated delivery captures Petit's playful nature, his delight in imagining himself in the space between the towers, and his satisfaction at achieving the impossible. The closing somber words, "Now the towers are gone," create an indelible memory, part joy, part grief. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

OCT/NOV 05 - AudioFile

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The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and...

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14 Cows For America by Carmen Agra Deedy

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14 Cows For America by Carmen Agra Deedy

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A New York Times Best Seller
This now-classic picture book recounts the true story of a touching gift bestowed on the United States by a tribe of Maasai Warriors in the wake of the September 11th attacks. "Lovely... beautifully evocative." ―Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times "Moving and dramatically illustrated." ―The Wall Street Journal "Elegant...suspenseful...The colors of Kenya explode off the page." ―School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
In June of 2002, a mere nine months since the September 11 attacks, a very unusual ceremony begins in a far-flung village in western Kenya. An American diplomat is surrounded by hundreds of Maasai people. A gift is about to be bestowed upon the American men, women, and children, and he is there to accept it. The gift is as unexpected as it is extraordinary.

Hearts are raw as these legendary Maasai warriors offer their gift to a grieving people half a world away. Word of the gift will travel newswires around the globe, and for the heartsick American nation, the gift of fourteen cows emerges from the choking dust and darkness as a soft light of hope―and friendship.

This New York Times best seller recounts the true story from Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah of the touching gift bestowed on the United States by a tribe of Maasai Warriors in the wake of the September 11 attacks. With stunning paintings from Thomas Gonzalez, master storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy (in collaboration with Naiyomah) hits all the right notes in this elegant story of generosity that crosses boundaries, nations, and cultures.
Best Children's Books of the Year (Starred) - Bank Street College of Education Notable Books for a Global Society - International Reading Association E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor - Association of Booksellers for Children Parents' Choice Gold Award - Parents' Choice Foundation Teacher's Guide available!

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A New York Times Best Seller This now-classic picture book recounts the true story of a touching gift bestowed on the United States by a tribe of Maasai Warriors in the wake of the September 11th attacks. "Lovely... beautifully evocative." ―Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times "Moving and dramatically illustrated."

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America Is Under Attack
A bright morning sun lit a cloudless blue sky.

America started its day. Highways filled with traffic. Railroads rumbled with trains. Airports roared with jetliners.

Among the hundreds of planes rising into that flawless blue sky were two from Boston, one from Newark, New Jersey, and one from Washington, D.C. Among their ordinary passengers were nineteen deadly men.

They were followers of Osama Bin Laden, leader of an organization known as al-Qaeda. The group hated America's power and influence. Bin Laden promised violence against America. The nineteen men had pledged their lives to fulfill that threat.

At 8:00 AM on September 11, 2001, they acted.

With knives, pepper spray, and threats of bombs, they stormed the four airliner cockpits and wrested control away from the pilots. The jets were no longer just ordinary airplanes; they were weapons. The planes banked away from their planned flight paths and headed for their targets.

On one of the planes, a flight attendant managed to alert onthe-ground authorities to the hijacking. She reported, "Something is wrong ... We are flying very, very low."

Before them loomed the World Trade Center on the lower tip of New York's Manhattan Island. Each skyscraping tower was just over 1,350 feet tall and boasted 110 floors. More than 14,000 earlybird workers had already arrived, a fraction of the 50,000 who worked there.

At 8:46 AM, the plane slammed into the North Tower.

Flying at 450 miles per hour, the jet exploded through floors 93 to 99. The earth shook. Debris and flames hurtled from the opposite side of the building.

Fire Chief Joseph Pfiefer was out with a truck and his crew in lower Manhattan when he heard the plane approach. He looked up and watched the jet smash into the tower.

"Everyone ... get in the rigs because we're going down there," he said.

Inside the tower, an inferno of jet fuel shot down a thousand feet of elevator shaft to the lobby and lower levels.

"I heard a roar," said police captain Anthony Whitaker, who had been standing his regular, early morning watch at the base of the tower. "I saw a gigantic fireball ... I turned ... and ran."

The building suffered horrible damage. People on lower floors could escape down the stairs. But hundreds of others on higher floors were trapped by burning wreckage and ruined stairwells. Many used their cell phones to call for help—three thousand calls were made to the 911 emergency system in the ten minutes after the crash. Overloaded circuits made connections difficult. Trapped people were told to wait for help.

Chief Pfiefer and his team marched into the North Tower and sent out the alarm for more firefighters. They and other rescue workers quickly arrived, sirens blaring. Emergency vehicles flooded lower Manhattan. Within seventeen minutes of the crash, a thousand fire, police, and rescue workers swarmed the World Trade Center. Many were off duty; they simply reported to the scene when they heard the news.

Among the rescue workers arriving at the North Tower was Chief Pfiefer's brother Kevin, a lieutenant in the fire department. The two men shared a few moments together, then turned to their duties. The chief remained in the lobby to direct the arriving firefighters. His brother headed for the crash site.

Two companies of firefighters were ordered up to the flaming wreckage ninety stories above. They entered a stairwell and began the thousand foot vertical climb. Each fire fighter carried more than 80 pounds of equipment. Without elevators, it would take more than an hour to reach the impact site.

"We started up ... from the ground floor. We would take it ten floors at time [and] catch our breath," said a fire captain. "This way, we would have some energy to ... do whatever we were going to do when we got to the upper floors."

The fire department's plan wasn't to fight the fire.

"Fire [fighting] systems in the building were probably damaged and possibly inoperable ... So we determined early on, that this was going to be strictly a rescue mission. We were ... going to get people out, and then we were going to get out," said a fire chief.

The fire department ordered everyone out of the building.

A total tower evacuation had never been attempted before.

It had never been practiced, nor even been planned. No one had imagined a catastrophe that would require it.

Meanwhile, Captain Whitaker—the police captain who'd earlier dodged the fireball in the tower lobby—ordered a full evacuation of the World Trade Center, the collection of buildings that was home to the Twin Towers.

Poor communications and a damaged public address system made it nearly impossible to broadcast the evacuation order. People in the buildings continued to receive mixed messages from emergency operators; sometimes to "stay put" and other times to "leave immediately." Some people left, others departed and returned.

In the North Tower, the fire department even had trouble contacting their fire fighters as they climbed the stairs to the impact zone. Their handheld radios barely operated. Making and receiving orders was hit or miss.

High on the 88th floor, Frank De Martini, the building's construction manager, hadn't heard anything from the rescue operation based in the lobby. He didn't even know about the plane crash; he thought someone had planted a bomb or that a mechanical room had exploded. His office was wrecked. The ceiling had collapsed, flames licked the walls, and smoke filled the air. Dazed people stumbled about. He surveyed the ruins, gathered a team, and went to work.

First, De Martini discovered an open stairway and sent down more than twenty-five people who had been trapped. Among them was his eighty-nine-year-old co-worker Moe Lipson.

"My heart was pumping harder than usual," Moe said.

Then De Martini, along with co-worker Pablo Ortiz and others, made their way up to the 89th floor. They found more people trapped by debris and freed them, sending the rescued people down the stairwell. De Martini and Ortiz continued up toward an unknowable chaos, looking for more trapped survivors.

The floors at the crash site were a tangle of burning wreckage. Smoke billowed across lower Manhattan. On the floors above the burning rubble, hundreds of people were trapped. Using phones and email, in voices sometimes calm and other times frantic, they sent the same message: We're stuck! Send help!

Police helicopters flew close.

"People were hanging out of the building, gasping for air," said a helicopter crew member. "There was no way of getting near anyone in a window ... we were helpless, totally helpless."

Heavy smoke and intense heat from the fire made rescuing people from the roof impossible.

Some of the trapped people jumped.

Suddenly a helicopter pilot shouted, "There's a second plane!"

Stanley Praimnath saw the second jet race straight at his 81st floor office in the South Tower. He dived under his desk, screaming.

Everything exploded. Walls and ceilings collapsed. Part of the jet's wing jammed into a door. The overpowering stink of jet fuel made breathing difficult.

But Praimnath was alive; the only survivor at the heart of the impact.

The second hijacked jetliner had crashed through the 77th to 85th floors of the South Tower. Massive flames spewed from the tower. Wreckage rained down on the street.

It was 9:03 AM, seventeen minutes after the strike on the North Tower. People now understood the earlier crash was not a freak accident but a deliberate attack.

Despite the horrific crash, one stairwell in the South Tower remained intact. Unlike the North Tower, people above the crash had the means to escape to the street. In the chaos, however, many people would not find it.

Firefighters scrambling into the South Tower discovered a working elevator that carried them to the 40th floor. From there, they climbed a stairwell. Passing them on the way down were escaping civilians. The lack of panic by the civilians impressed the firefighters. People patted the fire fighters' backs and wished them well. In return, the firefighters encouraged them for their long flight down.

Below, one elevator screeched to a halt at the building's main lobby. It had plunged 900 feet before automatic safety brakes stopped it. The riders pried open the doors and escaped.

In the North Tower, another elevator sat stalled and locked closed at the lobby. It had come to a halt when the plane struck. Chris Young, its lone occupant, knew nothing of the catastrophe around him. Firefighters going up couldn't hear his shouts and marched past him, unaware of his predicament.

High above was another trapped elevator. From its intercom, the riders learned there had been an "explosion." The riders forced open the doors and discovered they had stopped in front of a wall. One of the passengers was a window washer. He began scratching the wall with the metal edge of his squeegee to make a hole.

Dense smoke billowed off both towers. Falling wreckage hurtled to the ground. Despite the risk, hundreds of firefighters, police, emergency medical technicians, private security guards, and even workers from the neighboring hotel stationed themselves around the World Trade Center, tending to the injured and helping office workers flee.

To avoid the debris raining down on the plaza outside the tower, they directed evacuees through neighboring buildings or through underground corridors. Thousands streamed away.

At 9:37 AM 200 miles away from the disaster zone in New York, the military's headquarters in Washington, D.C., known as the Pentagon became the third target of the hijackers' attack. The jet swooped low and plowed into the building at ground level. The flaming impact nearly reached the center courtyard.

"It was a loud roar ... The building shook ... Jet fuel poured into the corridors ... and ignited, taking all the oxygen out of the air," said an Army officer.

"The heat inside was so hot, it felt like the sun kissing you," said a soldier.

Rescuers raced to the scene. From exits everywhere, 20,000 people eventually evacuated the building.

Back in New York, in the wreckage of the South Tower, Stanley Praimnath yelled, "Help! Help! I'm buried! Is anybody there?"

Brian Clark was there.

He had been fleeing his ruined office when he'd heard shouts. Clark and Praimnath clawed the rubble. Clark yanked the trapped man free, and the two fell to the floor in a hug.

"I'm Brian," Clark said.

"I'm Stanley," Praimnath said.

The two men found a stairwell and headed down.

Thousands of people escaped down the towers' stairwells. The injured, the old, the handicapped were helped by friends, by strangers. People shared drinks.

A blind man came down with his guide dog. Two brothers trudged the stairwells: one, a firefighter, going up, the other, a businessman, coming down. They didn't meet.

Not on the stairs were co-workers Ed Beyea and Abe Zelmanowitz. Beyea was paralyzed and in a wheelchair. There wasn't an elevator for him to escape. Zelmanowitz waited with his friend for rescue. There were eventually joined by Fire Captain William Burke. Together the three waited for available rescue workers to carry Beyea down.

By 10:00 AM, lines of firefighters stretched all the way to the 54th floor in the North Tower. At the same time in the South Tower, one hard charging chief made it all the way to the impact zone on the 78th floor. Chief Orio Palmer used the elevator to travel forty stories and then raced up thirty-eight flights of stairs on foot.

Hundreds of miles away, another kind of desperate action unfolded. The fourth hijacked plane was still in the air, creasing the Pennsylvania sky. By way of cell phone calls to the ground, passengers learned of the attacks in New York and Washington. The passengers decided they had to fight back.

They stormed the cockpit. The hijacker pilot pitched and banked the plane to throw the passengers off balance. At 10:03 AM, the jet rolled onto its back and roared earthward. The passengers were still battling when the plane smashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile in New York, molten aluminum poured from the South Tower as the remains of the jetliner melted.

Watching the disaster was a city building engineer, one of the many government officials who had rushed to the scene. Surveying the damage he warned fire department commanders that the tower was close to collapsing. The warning came too late: at 9:59 AM the South Tower came down. In ten seconds, the mammoth building was reduced to rubble.

"It looked exactly like an avalanche coming down the street at you," a policeman said.

It cleaved a neighboring hotel in two.

Cars flew through the air. Giant steel girders tumbled like toothpicks.

"We saw air conditioning ducts. We saw parts of buildings. And newspapers and debris, all in a dust ball coming at us!" said a police captain.

The collapse generated a furious wind.

One police officer was thrown from one side of the street to the other. "I was literally blown out of my shoes," she said.

A monstrous, dirty cloud covered everything.

"Picture taking ... flour and sticking it up your nose and in your mouth. That's what breathing was like," said another officer. "At the same time, I'm feeling debris hitting ... my legs, hitting my ankles, hearing it pile up above me."

Fire Chief Ptieter and the other firefighters in the North Tower lobby heard a rumble.

"I thought ... something was crashing through the lobby ...

We ... huddled down at the base of the escalator. [The] whole area

... became totally black," Pfiefer said."We stayed there until the rumbling stopped. I never even suspected that the second tower collapsed."

In the North Tower lobby, the doors of a stalled elevator opened. The collapse of the South Tower had cut the power to the elevator's door locks. From the car emerged Chris Young, the trapped passenger who'd been overlooked by rescue workers. Earlier he had boarded the elevator from a polished, modern lobby. Now he shuffled through clouds of dust, over rubble and debris. Alone. Pfiefer and the other firefighters had fled the lobby when the wreckage of the South Tower billowed through.

Up to that moment, few people believed the buildings could be brought down. They had been designed to survive a jetliner collision. The towers had survived a massive terrorist bombing in 1993. And by the city's fire regulations, the floors were supposed to withstand two hours of fire.

Now the chief's orders came quick: "Tower 1 to all units.

Evacuate the building. Evacuate the building."

A police helicopter hovered near the top of the wounded North Tower.

"It looks like it's glowing red," the pilot said. Moments later, he added, "It appears to be buckling."

Not all the firefighters in the tower heard the evacuation order. Some didn't believe it. Others wanted to evacuate as a unit and waited for fire company fellows to gather. Many of the emergency workers climbing the stairs were unaware that the South Tower had collapsed and failed to grasp the urgency of the evacuation order. Some wanted to catch their breath before continuing.

"We'll come down in a few minutes," said one.

When Fire Captain Jay Jonas learned the South Tower had crashed, he said, "It's time to get out of here."

He led a small group of rescuers down a North Tower stairwell. Around the 12th floor, they met a groaning and crying Josephine Harris. Bad feet and a sixty-story descent had brought the office worker to a stop.

"Bring her with us," Jonas said.

They urged her along, but the pace was very, very slow.

At the 4th floor, Josephine quit.

"We're just going to have to drag her," Jonas thought.

Then he felt shaking and the floor rolled like a wave.

The tower pancaked down. With tremendous booms, one floor hit another. Ten stories a second. The banging, screeching, roaring, collapsing floors drove a furious wind ahead of it.

One of Jonas's group was tossed a floor below, another one was thrown three floors down. The others hugged the floor.

A quarter mile—1,350 feet—of glass, metal, plastic, marble, rubber, telephones, copiers, office desks, filing cabinets, ceramic tiles, dry wall, copper pipes, steel sheets, steel beams, and steel rods fell around them. It crushed a neighboring Trade Center office building and demolished the nearby hotel already cleaved in two by the collapsing South Tower.

It was 10:28 AM.

In 102 minutes hijackers had destroyed the World Trade Center, crippled the Pentagon, and doomed four jet liners. 2,973 people were dead, more than the number of Americans killed at Pearl Harbor or on D-Day. It was the largest loss of life on American soil as a result of a hostile attack.

Among the lost were faithful friends Ed Beyea and Abe Zelmanowitz, along with the fireman who didn't desert them, William Burke. Chief Palmer, the first uniformed rescuer to reach the North Tower's 78th floor impact site, perished. Frank De Martini and Pablo Oritz died, too, but not before rescuing scores of others, mostly strangers.

Stanley Praimnath and Brian Clark survived. Trapped elevator passenger Chris Young escaped, too; a surprised fireman discovered him in the North Tower and whisked him to safety. Eighty-nine-year-old Moe Lipson climbed down eighty-eight floors, walked a mile, and then hailed a cab to take him home. The window washer and people in the elevator with him tunneled through drywall and ceramic tiles into a bathroom. They all escaped; the window washer even brought out his bucket and squeegee.

Incredibly, sixteen people survived inside the North Tower, including Captain Jonas's crew. Josephine Harris's pace had been a charm; the building came down all around them but the exact spot where they huddled in the stairwell remained standing. If the group had moved faster or slower, they'd have died in the wreckage. She and the rescuers would later exchange Christmas cards.

Chief Joseph Pfeifer survived, but not his fireman brother. The two last spoke in the North Tower lobby, moments before Lieutenant Kevin Pfeifer led his men up.

Kevin Pfeifer wasn't recovered from the wreckage until February.

Joseph Pfiefer was there.

"Not only did I see him going into the towers, but I also brought him out," said the chief.

Copyright © 2011 by Don Brown

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America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell|Paperback

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One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 On the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of readers too young to remember that terrible day.<br...

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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin

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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin

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Four very different kids, four very different lives forever changed by the same devastating event. Nine, Ten is a bittersweet story about four children from all over the country in the days leading up to September 11th and the varying ways in which it directly affected each of their lives. This ultimately hopeful novel will help young readers build understanding and empathy for those around them.

From the critically acclaimed author of Anything But Typical comes a "tense...and thought-provoking" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) look at the days leading up to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and how that day impacted the lives of four middle schoolers.

Ask anyone: September 11, 2001, was serene and lovely, a perfect day-until a plane struck the World Trade Center.

But right now it is a few days earlier, and four kids in different parts of the country are going about their lives. Sergio, who lives in Brooklyn, is struggling to come to terms with the absentee father he hates and the grandmother he loves. Will's father is gone, too, killed in a car accident that has left the family reeling. Naheed has never before felt uncomfortable about being Muslim, but at her new school she's getting funny looks because of the head scarf she wears. Aimee is starting a new school in a new city and missing her mom, who has to fly to New York on business.

These four don't know one another, but their lives are about to intersect in ways they never could have imagined. Award-winning author Nora Raleigh Baskin weaves together their stories into an unforgettable novel about that seemingly perfect September day-the day our world changed forever.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:

9781442485075

Publisher:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Publication date:

05/16/2017

Edition description:

Reprint

Pages:

208

Sales rank:

22,421

Product dimensions:

5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.70(d)

Age Range:

8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Nora Raleigh Baskin is the ALA Schneider Family Book Award-winning author of Anything But Typical. She was chosen as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start for her novel What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows, and has since written a number of novels for middle graders and teens, including The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah, The Summer Before Boys, and Ruby on the Outside. Nora lives with her family in Connecticut. Visit her at NoraBaskin.com.

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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story
It was September 9, 2001, raining in that Chicago slow-drizzle sort of way. Outside the windows of O'Hare International Airport, the sky was painted a particular shade of gray and leaving droplets of water on the large glass windows that looked out onto the airstrip.

Sergio and another boy from New York were at the gate, early for their flight home. Their university escort was sitting, eyes closed, listening to her Discman, waiting for the boys to board so she could go home.

What was the other boy's name? Sergio couldn't remember. L-something? Or M-something? For two days Sergio had recognized him as, simply, the white boy with the red hair.

"Let's go see what's in the candy shop."

The redheaded boy pointed to the newsstand, which was filled with everything anyone could possibly think of needing before getting onto a plane: newspapers, magazines, headrests, paperback novels, earphones, small suitcases, cold drinks, and lots of candy.

Sergio glanced over at the escort, who didn't look up. She didn't even open her eyes.

"Okay," Sergio said. He took one more glance around to make sure they could find their way back to their gate. Everything in the airport appeared the same, every corner, every window, every set of plastic seats, every gate. It would be easy to get lost. Sergio made sure he would not. Then he checked the information on the board again.

Flight 563, JFK.

On time, gate 10.

His grandmother would be getting up right about now. It was Sunday. Her one day to sleep in. But she was probably up already, making coffee, knowing Sergio would be home in a few hours.

Sergio didn't realize how homesick he was, he had been, the whole time, until just then, when he started thinking about his grandmother. It was the first time he had ever been away from home. And he'd only agreed to go at all because his grandma was so proud of him.

Five kids from New York State had been chosen to be honored at this ceremony at the University of Chicago, all based on one math test they had taken at the end of last year. And for that Sergio had been flown to Chicago, put up in a hotel, and given three meals a day, and when they had called his name-his full name, Sergio Kinkaid Williams-he had walked across the gigantic stage of the Court Theatre and received his plaque, which was now weighing down his carry-on bag as he perused the newsstand.

Kinkaid was his father's last name. Of his father, that was pretty much all he wanted to know.

"You getting anything to eat?" the redheaded boy asked when they got into the checkout line.

Sergio slipped his hand into his jeans pocket to feel the twenty-dollar bill his grandmother had given him three days ago. He didn't want to break it if he didn't have to.

"Don't they give us lunch or breakfast or something on the plane?"

"Yeah, but they won't give us Kit Kat bars." The boy with the red hair put two candy bars on the counter.

Sergio shook his head. "Nah, I'm good."

They finished checking out, and the boy handed Sergio one of the Kit Kats. "I hate to eat alone," he said.

"Thanks." Sergio took the candy. He wasn't expecting that. It was nice.

The redheaded boy began to unwrap his candy, then stopped. He appeared to be more interested in something across the store. "That is so weird, isn't it?" he said. He pointed. "What's she got on her head?"

Sergio tried to figure out what the boy was talking about, but didn't see anything. "What's weird? Who?"

"Her." The boy gestured across the news shop, to a girl with her back toward them, facing a full wall of magazines.

She was wearing regular clothes, jeans and a sweater, but her head was wrapped in a shawl, a thin brown veil. Sergio knew what that meant. She was Muslim. There were a lot of Muslim girls in his neighborhood and in his school, but this kid had probably never seen anyone dressed like that. He was from way upstate New York somewhere.

At that moment the girl turned toward them as if she had heard them talking. Her head scarf completely covered her head and neck, all the way down to her shoulders. Like a child's drawing, her pale face was floating in a sea of brown fabric. Her lips pressed together. Her brow furrowed. Her eyes were blue, like the Mediterranean Sea.

"Hey, man. Let's go," Sergio said.

It was so not cool to stare.

* * *

Naheed was used to it. Being looked at. She was used to people asking if she was wearing a costume. Or saying:

"I didn't know you were Arab."

"Can you belly dance?"

"Do you believe in God?"

"Do you really not eat for a month?"

She wasn't Arab. She was Middle Eastern. Well, she was American, born twelve years ago in Columbus, Ohio, and she had never lived anywhere else. She had never once been to Iran, where her Persian mother and father had grown up. She couldn't belly dance either.

But she was used to people staring as soon as she left her house, her neighborhood, her school, her friends, and was out in public, as she was here in O'Hare Airport, waiting for her uncle and aunt to arrive.

Their flight hadn't come in yet. Naheed's family could have just waited outside for Uncle Iman and Aunt Judith to go through security and baggage, but her dad wanted to be right at the gate when his brother got off the plane, so they had gotten to the airport early. Really early. They had already had snacks, gone to the bathroom, and wandered through all the gift shops, and Uncle Iman's plane was still not here.

"Why don't you get yourself a magazine?" Naheed's father offered. "One I would approve of," he quickly added.

Naheed gazed at the display wall. There were hundreds of magazines, all with exciting, colorful covers, pretty girls, beautiful clothing, and lots of bare skin. But there wasn't one magazine on this wall her father would let her buy. The girls with their hair blowing freely all around their heads like someone had a fan right in their faces, their bare arms showing even though they were advertising winter fashions; Naheed knew it was immodest.

"A girl does not need to flaunt her beauty to the world," her mother had told her many times. "Real beauty is inside, and the right boy will see that."

Naheed decided she didn't need anything after all. She turned to head back to her family. Only now there were people everywhere, filling the news shop, heading in all directions, strolling, rushing, dragging children and bags, but nowhere did she see her mother's or father's or little sister's familiar face.

Her father had been standing right there a minute ago.

Hadn't he?

Naheed looked straight ahead in the direction she had just come from. Or was it that way? Or there? It all looked the same. There were faces everywhere, but no one she knew.

Her heart started to pump more quickly, and she felt the heat filling up her body. A tiny band of sweat formed instantly across her forehead. How would she ever find them?

She could feel tears springing into the corners of her eyes.

There were people all around her. Too many people. Too many faces. She didn't want to start crying, but it was about to happen anyway. She kept walking, looking down at the ground, hoping her feet would keep working even if her brain wasn't. In this way she banged directly into something solid, unmoving, and talking.

"Hey, watch where you're going."

Naheed looked up. It was so weird-for a second it seemed that a girl from one of those magazines had actually stepped out and was here, right in front of her.

Light brown hair, long and straight, carefully pulled away from her face and delicate neck. She had perfect skin, and a perfect outfit: white T-shirt with some kind of logo, tucked into her belted jeans.

"Oh no, now look what happened," the girl said.

The impact of two bodies had sent the girl's bag spilling onto the floor. ChapStick. A water bottle, a Walkman, and a plastic change purse, unfortunately not quite tightly closed.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. . . ." Now surely Naheed was going to cry. She began to bend down next to the girl to help her, when she saw, across the way, her little sister, Nouri, waving her arms.

"Here! Here," Nouri was saying.

Naheed felt a wash of comfort pour over her. Her mind cleared. Her heart slowed with relief, then sped back up with joy.

She hadn't lost them.

There was her family, standing by the far window. The plane had arrived. Even Uncle Iman and Aunt Judith were a welcome sight.

Naheed stopped trying to collect the girl's things. She stood up.

"Oh, never mind," the girl said, wisps of her hair now loose and falling into her eyes as she gathered her things from the floor. "I got it."

"Sorry. I mean thanks," Naheed called back. "I mean sorry." But her voice was absorbed into the airport terminal din.

* * *

Aimee grabbed for the loose coin that was standing upright and rolling across the floor, but it got away. She didn't feel like chasing it. She let her mind glaze over, watching the nickel or dime or quarter or whatever it was turn like a wheel, to the left, to the right, and left again, before it finally toppled over and a man's thick black shoe stepped right on it, then he went on his way without noticing.

"Aimee, what are you doing on the floor?" her mother asked. "You know I'm in a rush."

Aimee knew that. Her mother needed to hurry to catch her flight. Aimee and her dad were going to Los Angeles, but her mom, at the last minute, had to go to New York for a meeting. Her new job meant that "last minute" happened a lot. It meant nights and sometimes even weekends.

And sometimes Aimee just wished her mom's new job had never happened.

"Do you have to go?" Aimee could hear herself whining, but she couldn't help it. She was starting seventh grade tomorrow in a new school, in a new town, and, to make matters worse, a week later than everyone else because of the bat mitzvah.

She might still have been whining about that, except her cousin's bat mitzvah had been so much fun. Aimee's family had already sold their house, so for the weekend of the bat mitzvah they got to stay in the Drake Hotel. Aimee could have stayed down the hall, with her other out-of-town cousins, all girls about her age, but she chose to stay with her parents, like she used to when she was little and they would go away on vacation. If there were two queen-size beds in the room, she would make her parents sleep separately, so that one night she could sleep with one and the next night the other. Her favorite vacation was when they went to the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, and there was only one king bed. She slept right in the middle, with her mother and father on either side of her.

This time, at the Drake Hotel, they ordered a rollaway brought to the room, but it felt nearly as good. After the bat mitzvah party, when they went back to their room, all the decorative pillows had been taken off the king bed, and the covers were turned down into a perfect triangle. Even her little rollaway had been folded down neatly, set up for her just to climb right in and go to sleep. There were two tiny wrapped chocolates on all of their pillows.

Aimee knew she was too old to want to be sleeping in the same room with her parents, but she couldn't help it. She hated it when her mother was about to leave on a business trip.

But now as her mother kissed her good-bye and left, Aimee didn't say anything. She didn't want to start crying. She waved as she watched her mother getting farther and farther away.

There was still time. She could run after her mother and stop her from leaving. In her mind Aimee played out the scene. She would catch up in a few seconds, before her mother could turn around at the sound of Aimee's sneakers. Aimee would wrap her arms around her mother's waist and hold tight, really tight. They would stay that way for a few moments, hugging, not having to say anything because there would be nothing to say.

I love you, Mamaleh.

I love you, too, Aimeleh.

And then her mother wouldn't get on the plane. She'd stay home with Aimee and they would bake cookies.

Aimee could still make it.

Now.

If she ran fast.

She even felt the energy tingle in her toes.

But she didn't run, and then, poof, the moment was gone, and now there was a stranger, a woman with two little girls hiding behind their mother's legs, talking to Aimee's dad. And there was a boy standing beside the mom, looking embarrassed but protective.

"Excuse me," the mother was saying.

"Yes?" Aimee's father answered.

"I'm sorry, but do you have the time?"

"Of course."

Aimee's dad looked at his watch and told her the time. At the same time he reached over and gave Aimee a squeeze. He knew she needed it. The woman said, "Thank you," and she and her three kids headed off somewhere in a big hurry. When Aimee looked back down the corridor, her mother was gone.

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Maybe it was the way the dad put his arm around the girl when he was looking at his watch. Or maybe it was how the girl kind of looked like Claire, a little bit. They had the same color hair, and Claire wore hers that way too. She was about the same height. But maybe it was just the way the dad was being so attentive to his kid that Will noticed.

And he felt a tiny, sharp pain in his throat.

"You didn't need to bother that man," Will said when they had walked past. "There's the time, Mom. Right up there on the board." He pointed.

"I know, I know, but I wanted to double-check," his mother said. "Just to make sure."

Will and his two sisters, Rooney and Callie, followed their mother through the airport. He wished his mother didn't get so nervous. He really wished she didn't ask strangers for help all the time. And that had nothing to do with his dad dying or the way he got killed. Died or killed, Will wasn't sure, because he still didn't have the right words to explain his father's death. To make sense of any of it. To even think about it.

No, his mom had always been like that, talking to anyone, thinking that the universe took care of you, as if all you had to do was ask nicely. She acted as if she really believed people in this world cared about other people and would actually stick their neck out, just because she did that for other people. Because that was the right thing to do.

Or because that's how their dad had always done things.

"Come on, kids." Will's mother was doing her speed-walking thing through the terminal. "We have to hurry."

This trip to Florida hadn't been a such a good idea all around. But what could they do? It had been given to them, everything-including tickets to Disney World-all paid for; a gift of healing from the town of Shanksville. A bunch of his parents' friends had decided the family needed to get away on the anniversary, if you could call it that.

The whole town, practically, had raised the money, quietly and not so quietly, through bake sales and donations and gifts, and so when they presented the trip to Will's mom, what could she say? No?

No, thank you.

My family and I don't want to have fun anymore.

The lines at Disney World had been so long, the wait sometimes more than an hour, and it had been hot. Callie fell asleep, and their mother ended up carrying her through most of the Magic Kingdom. She looked like a limp doll, a sweaty limp doll. Rooney cried after each ride because she wanted to go again, but you couldn't do that.

Life doesn't work that way, not even in the Magic Kingdom.

The trip began to feel like a burden. It was a chore to be happy, even though sometimes, in spite of themselves, they were happy. Like when Callie jumped into the pool and made it all the way to the other side by herself. Or when the French waitress at Epcot brought them a dessert meant for another table but told them they could keep it anyway. They took four spoons and dug in, not having any idea what it was.

"Dad would have loved this," Rooney said, scraping the last of the rich, creamy pudding from the bowl with her finger.

"Daddy loved cinnamon," their mother added.

And they all got quiet again.

By the end of the long weekend they all were exhausted.

They were fifty-eight minutes early for their connecting flight home. Orlando to Chicago. Now Chicago to Pittsburgh. The waiting area was practically empty. Will's sisters both laid their heads down on their mother's lap.

Will pulled a watch out of his pocket. It wasn't one of those new cool watches that told the temperature and what time it was all over the world. It was just a plain Timex on an old, really worn yellow-and-blue-striped fabric band, but it had been his dad's watch. The only thing Will had specifically asked for.

When Will was little, his dad used to let him wind it up, pulling out the tiny stem and turning the metal knob, careful never to overwind. Mindful, as well, never to let it stop completely. Will held the watch in his hand and looked down at the white face, the black roman numerals, and the skinny second hand ticking forward in a steady, jerking beat.

It was 10:03 exactly.

Editorial Reviews

Baskin's novel reminds readers that our lives are interconnected in ways we might never understand; by focusing on four young characters, she underscores the effects September 11 had on those involved and those bearing witness . . . a gentle introduction to a difficult topic for young readers, many of whom will be too young to remember the events firsthand.

"Baskin creates sharply defined, emotionally compelling characters in a few elegant words . . . Daringly, Baskin saves the events of 9/11 for the last act, effectively ending her book with its inciting event. . . . Though some might wonder if a calm and bloodless novel about 9/11 misses the point, its poise allows Nine, Ten to honor the emotional distance many kids today feel from the tragedy."

The New York Times Book Review

Doing justice to four separate story threads in under 200 pages is a tall task, and fewer protagonists would have allowed more depth. But Baskin creates sharply defined, emotionally compelling characters in a few elegant words...Daringly, Baskin saves the events of 9/11 for the last act, effectively ending her book with its inciting event. When the attacks finally occur, Baskin leaves the characters' viewpoints to narrate the events dispassionately, starkly setting out facts of timing and numbers of dead. Doing so prevents any hint of sensationalism or manipulation, and puts the novel at a glossy remove. Though some might wonder if a calm and bloodless novel about 9/11 misses the point, its poise allows Nine, Ten to honor the emotional distance many kids today feel from the tragedy.

The New York Times Book Review - Eliot Schrefer

★ 04/25/2016
For a generation of readers born and raised after 9/11, Baskin (Ruby on the Outside) offers a powerful account of how the events changed lives. Her cast is made up of four middle-school students who briefly cross paths at Chicago's bustling O'Hare Airport two days before the Twin Towers fall. Characters include Will, a Pennsylvania boy still grieving his father's death; Aimee, settling into her new home in Los Angeles while her mother is on a business trip in New York City; Brooklyn native Sergio, who has just won a national math award; and Nadira, a Muslim girl from Ohio who is trying to fit in by not wearing her "beliefs on her sleeve." Hours before the hijackings, the children are preoccupied with family and peers, but after learning about the terrorist attacks, all are deeply and personally touched in some way, their problems put in new perspective. There are no graphic displays of violence; Baskin focuses on how her characters emerge wiser, worldlier, and more sensitive to others' pain after surviving a profound and tragic piece of history. Ages 8-12. Agency: Nancy Gallt Literary Agency. (June)

Publishers Weekly

Baskin's novel reminds readers that our lives are interconnected in ways we might never understand; by focusing on four young characters, she underscores the effects September 11 had on those involved and those bearing witness . . . a gentle introduction to a difficult topic for young readers, many of whom will be too young to remember the events firsthand.

05/01/2016
Gr 4-6-Four children from different parts of America go about their lives just days before the events of 9/11. Nadira is a Muslim girl struggling to balance her commitment to religious customs with her desire to fit in with the public school culture of Columbus, OH. Sergio lives in a low-income area with his grandmother in Brooklyn. Aimee is at home in California, missing her mother, who is on a business trip to New York City. Finally, there's Will in Pennsylvania, who has recently lost his father. The novel slowly follows the children through their days, failing to ever build any kind of page-turning tension. When the events of September 11, 2001, do occur, Baskin successfully depicts the reality from the perspective of the four protagonists. This is the story's greatest strength. Because of the sensitivity of the topic and the lack of a baseline understanding among most students, this book is best used as an in-class, facilitated read. Jewel Parker Rhodes's recent novel, Towers Falling, is a more engaging title that serves a similar purpose. VERDICT Not highly recommended, because of the novel's sluggish pace, lack of engaging story line, and contrived ending.-Pilar Okeson, Washington D.C. Public Library

School Library Journal

★ 2016-03-16
Four children of diverse ethnicities, unknown to one another, are at Chicago's O'Hare airport on Sept. 9, 2001. Sergio, an African-American boy, is about to fly home to New York City. Naheed, a Muslim-American girl, awaits the arrival of relatives from Iran. Aimee, a white, Jewish girl, is on the way to a new home in Los Angeles, where her mother has a new job with Cantor-Fitzgerald, while her mother is flying to New York City for a meeting at the World Trade Center. Will, a white boy who has recently lost his father, is on the way home to Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Baskin follows each of them over the 48 hours prior to 9/11 and recounts their experiences on that day as well as their participation in the first anniversary ceremonies. An author's note explains her decisions to emphasize "the division between 'before 9/11' and 'after 9/11' " for children who were not yet born then, to spare all her characters the loss of a loved one, and to depict the post-9/11 spirit of community that existed for at least a short time. Readers will have different reactions to the work depending on their ages and how much prior knowledge they bring to it. Adults may be chilled by key names and places and what they portend, but children may gain a small sense of the magnitude of the changes that day wrought on our world. Tense, disturbing, and thought-provoking. (author's note, acknowledgements) (Historical fiction. 10-14)

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Editorial Reviews

Praise for Towers Falling:

" History made personal--and what a person! Deja's voice is real and memorable, her compelling story one of hope unmarred by sentimentality."
-Linda Sue Park, Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author

"This tender retelling of tragedy is a solid vessel to help young readers understand the gravity of 9/11 and how it touches all Americans, no matter where we come from. "
-Kirkus Reviews

"This is a welcome contribution to children's literature."-School Library Journal

"Rhodes approaches a complex, painful topic with insight and grace, providing context to an event distant to the book's audience."
-Publishers Weekly

Additional praise and awards for Jewell Parker Rhodes' books:

Ninth Ward was named a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, a Notable Book for a Global Society, a CCBC Choices pick, a VOYA Top Shelf Fiction pick, an ALSC Notable Children's Book, an SLJ Best Book of the Year, an IndieBound Kids' Next List pick, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an NYPL Top 100 Title for Reading & Sharing.

Sugar was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, an IndieBound Kids' Next List pick, a Jane Addams Book Award winner, an IRA Top Chapter Books selection, and a CCBC Choices Pick.

Bayou Magic was an LA Times summer reading selection and a Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books selection.

Towers Falling was an Indiebound Kids' Next List selection, a Junior Library Guild selection, one of Amazon's Best Books of the Month, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, a Seventeen M agazine Best Book of the Year, and a Notable Book for a Global Society.

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...powerful, cleareyed...Rhodes doesn't assume her readers know the magnitude of 9/11; she walks them tenderly through it...In Dèja, Rhodes offers a believable portrayal of the kid who feels as if she's always giving the wrong answers in class, leading to sulking and outbursts.

The New York Times Book Review - Eliot Schrefer

05/09/2016
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Gr 4-6-As the 15th anniversary of September 11, 2001, approaches, it brings with it a time for profound reflection. Rhodes's new novel offers a way to discuss the events of 9/11 with children too young to remember this pivotal event. This well-paced novel follows Deja, a fifth grader whose father suffers from a chronic cough, depression, and anxiety, all of which prevent him from maintaining a job. As a result, Deja and her family have lost their apartment and are now living in a group home in Brooklyn. When Deja begins at a new school, she makes friends with a Muslim girl and a boy whose father is an Iraq War veteran. When their teacher begins a lesson about September 11, the three friends learn how the day's events relate to them as individuals and as part of their wider community. This is a welcome contribution to children's literature, on a topic not many authors have broached for this age group, and it will function well as a teaching tool. It reads easily and offers educators the opportunity to not only address the events of September 11 from a historical perspective but also from a social one. Themes include community, diversity, and socioeconomic disparities. VERDICT Recommended as an addition to middle grade collections and as a classroom group reading title to help facilitate classroom conversations about 9/11.-Pilar Okeson, Washington DC Public Library

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Dèja Barnes doesn't want to stand out at the integrated Brooklyn Collective Elementary, and she wishes her family could move out of the Avalon Family Residence into a home; despite her fears, Dèja tackles new friendships, a new teacher, and the mystery behind her father's deep sadness.On the first day of fifth grade, the African-American girl makes fun of Mexican-American Ben's cowboy boots and Muslim Sabeen's cheery attitude, but despite her defensiveness, Dèja grows to appreciate her new friends' backgrounds. The trio draws from each of their experiences to help them navigate Miss Garcia's 9/11 curriculum. Dèja hates thinking about the past-her old best friend, her old neighborhood, her old home-yet the more she learns, the more she understands that this event affected her and every American. Rhodes pulls off the difficult feat of making a well-known story new. Sept. 11 is anchored in the minds of many readers, but for a new generation, it is history they learn in school, like Dèja. Through her eyes the event becomes fresh, heavy, and palpable, but at times 9/11 appears to be a competing rather than complementary protagonist. The cadences of the fifth-graders flow almost like slam poetry, emphasizing their feelings and senses over drawn-out descriptions or narration.This tender retelling of tragedy is a solid vessel to help young readers understand the gravity of 9/11 and how it touches all Americans, no matter where we come from. (author's note) (Fiction. 8-12)

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♦ Text and pictures attest to the resilience of New Yorkers and a remarkable tree following 9/11., starred review little girl, part of an FDNY family, who lives near the World Trade Center with her Black mom and white dad. Gentle text and bright, detailed images with lots of trees and plants show the best parts of life after tragedy. An afterword gives more advanced details on 9/11 and on the 9/11 Survivor Tree Seedling Program, which shares hope with cities that have experienced tragedy. A great addition to public and school library shelves.
A pear tree is discovered-scarred, burned, and buried-under mounds of rubble after the collapse of the Twin Towers and replanted in a nursery in the Bronx, where it eventually regrows and thrives. This deeply touching book equates the tree's extraordinary renaissance with New Yorkers' reawakened strength, spirit, and hope in the aftermath of the tragedy. One particular family-portrayed as an interracial couple (mom presents Black and dad, White) and their very young child-stand in for all New York's and, indeed, America's citizens and are depicted in opening scenes innocently enjoying daily life. Everything changes after they watch in bewildered horror as the awful events unfold on TV. Illustrations very ably accompany the simple, solemn text, using both double-page spreads and paneled insets; they highlight and interconnect the passing of time for tree and humans. The "Survivor Tree" is reborn, ultimately returned to its original site and replanted; first responders at ground zero work diligently; the child grows and gains a baby sibling; ordinary activities continue; seasons change; and a 9/11 memorial is built. At book's end, the child has grown to adulthood and become a New York City firefighter. Several somber-colored illustrations capture the disaster, but the artwork doesn't dwell on devastation, instead focusing on bright, uplifting images of hope and recovery. An author's note and information about the tree conclude the book.
Moving and poignant, a tender tribute in this 20th-anniversary commemoration of 9/11.

"Season after season, the tree grew./ Each spring arrived with warm whispers and healing rain." Commemorating 9/11 two decades after its occurrence, debut author Magee's free verse narrative focuses on a city's endurance as symbolized by New York City's Survivor Tree, a Callery pear in the World Trade Center Plaza that survived the buildings' collapse. Alongside the visual story of the attacks and their aftermath, Wong's detailed digital illustrations present the wordless tale of a child, a toddler during the attacks, growing up and becoming a first responder. In a scrapbook-style layout, snapshots of the brown-skinned, biracial child's family life appear alongside full-bleed illustrations of the tree's recovery, new growth, and replanting at ground zero a decade later. The combination of picture and verse effectively delivers the message that comfort can be found in remembrance and the continuity of life. Back matter includes contextualizing information about the Survivor Tree, an author's note, and a selected bibliography.

A young girl, who is biracial, and her family experience the tragedy of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in New York City, with the special lens of having a family member who is in the New York City Fire Department. Through juxtaposed wordless illustrated scenes and illustrations with text, readers experience the tragedy of the day, the aftermath, and the healing of the city and those who bravely came to the rescue. Also featured is a tree, a Callery pear tree that survived the destruction of the World Trade Center. The tree was excavated from the rubble and years later replanted near the South Pool at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Digital illustrations do not shy away from the destruction and tragedy of 9/11 but the focus on the helpers and the passage of time allow for hope to form the central essence of the book. Connections to the Survivor Tree in Oklahoma City (as detailed in Chris Barton's All of a Sudden and Forever) speak to the resilience of nature and humankind in the face of tragedy. Back matter includes information regarding the Survivor Tree Seedling Program. VERDICT Highly recommended for a generation of elementary students looking for a hopeful entry point to a hard moment in American history.
This memoir-like story, told in spare, careful sentences that recall helping actions around 9/11, portrays the day and subsequent years by following the growth of a little girl and of a tree that survived the attack. The 9/11 Survivor Tree was found at Ground Zero and moved to a nursery, a move that, like some other events in the book, is shown only in the art, thoughtfully leaving adults to fill in children's questions with the level of detail a child can handle. Seasons change, the years pass, and the tree eventually returns as part of the 9/11 memorial. Paralleling that story is that of the
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A pear tree that survived the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City has become a symbol of hope in adversity. Magee's respectful, lyrical text follows the tree's story through the seasons from its discovery as "something green among the ashes," to its regrowth off-site, to its replanting at Ground Zero ten years later. Wong's softly textured illustrations incorporate a wordless fictional story, told via inset panels, featuring a mixed-race girl and her family (including an FDNY firefighting relative); their lives parallel the tree's resilience. Both text and art present events soberly but with a young audience in mind; the girl's reassuring story helps temper more scary aspects. "More About the Survivor Tree's Journey," an author's note, and selected bibliography are appended.
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* "A resonant, beautifully rendered testament to life and renewal." ― Kirkus , starred review This Very Tree is a touching tribute to first responders, the resilience of America, and the restorative power of community.

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Amazon.com: Miss Mary Mack: 9780316537346: Hoberman, Mary Ann, Westcott, Nadine Bernard: Books

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Five Little Ducks (Classic Books with Holes 8x8 with CD)

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All children love this traditional rhyme and singing along will help to develop number skills. Bouncy illustrations, innovative die cutting and popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Available in three formats, suitable for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and the nursery or ...

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. 

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. 

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Read Aloud Story

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Mercer Mayer's Little Critter wants to show you all the things he can do for himself in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. Whether he's tying his shoes, coloring a picture, or riding his bike, both parents and children alike will relat

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All by Myself (Little Critter) (Look-Look)

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Mercer Mayer's Little Critter wants to show you all the things he can do for himself in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. Whether he's tying his shoes, coloring a picture, or riding his bike, both parents and children alike will relate to this beloved story. A perfect way to...

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It?s time to celebrate Spot?s thirtieth birthday! For three decades children have been looking everywhere for Spot in this classic, first-ever lift-the-flap book. Is he in the piano? Is he under the stairs? After finding other familiar animals, there he is in his basket!

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Little Blue Truck Board Book [Schertle, Alice, McElmurry, Jill] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Little Blue Truck Board Book

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This collection involves books about animals! This is usually a popular section for kids because they are cute and tell sweet stories. Kids can also relate to the animals and apply the meaning of these books to their own life. This selection consists of a wide variety of animals with all different personalities and meaning.

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A children's book about animal eyes. Have you ever noticed the uniqueness of animal eyes. The range and beauty is astounding. This book features 10 close ups of animal faces, honing in on their eyes. Use it as a tool to teach animal sounds and expose your little ones to the beauty in the world around us.

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A children's book about animal eyes. Have you ever noticed the uniqueness of animal eyes. The range and beauty is astounding. This book features 10 close ups of animal faces, honing in on their eyes. Use it as a tool to teach animal sounds and expose your little ones to the beauty in the world ar...

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Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

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Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

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Where the Red Fern Grows [Wilson Rawls] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Where the Red Fern Grows

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Grab your magnifying glass! Find your field guide! And come hop, hide, swim, and glide through this buggy backyard world!

Featuring insects including butterflies and moths, crickets and cicadas, bumblebees and beetles, this zippy rhyming exploration of backyard-bug behavior is sure to have insect enthusiasts of all ages bugging out with excitement!

Some bugs hop.
Some bugs glide.
Some bugs swim.
And some bugs hide!

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Grab your magnifying glass! Find your field guide! And come hop, hide, swim, and glide through this buggy backyard world! Featuring insects including butterflies and moths, crickets and cicadas, bumblebees and beetles, this zippy rhyming exploration of backyard-bug behavior is sure to have insect enthusiasts of all ages bugging out with excitement!

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Gotta Go, Buffalo: A Silly Book of Fun Goodbyes (Lucy Darling)

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Amazon.com: Gotta Go, Buffalo: A Silly Book of Fun Goodbyes (Lucy Darling): 9781423645986: Meyers, Haily, Meyers, Kevin: Books

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A story of friendship between a boy and a horse: "If a horse had words, the word would be... friend."

The illustrations, done in watercolor, are full of energy, and the story isn't bad. There's more use of poetical and figurative language than is usual in picture books:

The boy reaches out, quick as sunlight, and takes the rope from around her neck.

The boy climbs gently onto her back. He is skinny, light as a hawk's feather.

They kick at the clouds and snort wishes to the night stars.

The book is fu...more

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A story of friendship between a boy and a horse: "If a horse had words, the word would be... friend." The illustrations, done in watercolor, are full of energy, and the story isn't bad. There's more use of poetical and figurative language than is usual in picture books: The boy reaches out, quick as sunlight, and takes the rope from around her neck.

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Maria Gianferrari is a community scientist, self-taught naturalist and bird nerd who holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in English. She is the author of narrative nonfiction picture books which celebrate urban ecosystems, the natural world and our wild neighbors including Bobcat Prowling, Whoo-Ku Haiku, Hawk Rising and Coyote Moon. She also writes engaging expository nonfiction such as Be a Tree!, Terrific Tongues and Play Like an Animal to inspire young readers with fascinating STEM stuff. Maria's forthcoming nature titles include You and the Bowerbird, Thank a Farmer and Fungi Grow as well as her first book of poetry, Ice Cycle: Poems About the Life of Ice.

As a lover of dogs, Maria's fiction picture books star dogs as main characters and explore the human-canine bond. Titles include Being a Dog: A Tail of Mindfulness, Hello Goodbye Dog, Operation Rescue Dog, Officer Katz and Houndini, the Penny & Jelly books and the forthcoming, To Dogs With Love. To learn more about Maria, visit her website: mariagianferrari.com.

I am represented by the amazing Ammi-Joan Paquette of Erin Murphy Literary Agency, and these are my books:

*Penny & Jelly: The School Show, illustrated by Thyra Heder (HMH/2015)

*Penny & Jelly Slumber Under the Stars, illustrated by Thyra Heder (HMH/2016)

*Coyote Moon, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline (Roaring Brook Press/2016)

*Officer Katz & Houndini, illustrated by Danny Chatzikonstantinou (Aladdin/2016)

*Hello Goodbye Dog, illustrated by Patrice Barton (Roaring Brook Press/2017)

*Terrific Tongues, illustrated by Jia Liu (Boyds Mills Press/2018)

*Hawk Rising, illustrated by Brian Floca (Roaring Brook Press/2018)

*Operation Rescue Dog, illustrated by Luisa Uribe (Little Bee/2018)

*Whoo-Ku Haiku, illustrated by Jonathan D. Voss (GP Putnam's Sons/2020

*Play Like an Animal, illustrated by Mia Powell (Millbrook Press/2020)

*Be a Tree!, illustrated by Felicita Sala (Abrams/2021)

*Bobcat Prowling, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline (Roaring Brook Press/2022)

*Being a Dog: A Tail of Mindfulness, illustrated by Pete Oswald (HarperCollins/2022)

& a companion book, Being a Cat (Winter 2023)

*Ice Cycle: Poems about the Life of Ice, illustrated by Jieting Chen (Lerner/2022)

*Being a Cat: A Tail of Curiosity, illustrated by Pete Oswald (HarperCollins/2023)

*You and the Bowerbird, illustrated by Maris Wicks (Roaring Brook/2023)

*Thank a Farmer, illustrated by Monica Mikai (Norton/2023)

*Fungi Grow, illustrated by Diana Sudyka (Beach Lane/2023)

*To Dogs, with Love, illustrated by Ishaa Lobo (Roaring Brook/2023)

*Rain and the Reading Horse, illustrated by Hannah Salyer (Clarion/2024)

To learn more, please visit my website: mariagianferrari.com

You can also visit Penny & Jelly's website: pennyandjelly.com

Instagram: @maria_gianferrari_author

Twitter: Gianferrari_M

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Hello Goodbye Dog [Gianferrari, Maria, Barton, Patrice] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hello Goodbye Dog

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Hooray for Hat! [Won, Brian, Won, Brian] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hooray for Hat!

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This clever picture book introduces the concept of animal characteristics by highlighting how there can be both differences and similarit...

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In this humorous twist on a visit to the zoo, just who has the more interesting view? As morning dawns, the zookeeper makes his rounds, exhorting the animals to wake up, comb their hair, and stand up straight. Soon their human visitors arrive, and the observations begin to flow: My, what silly things they do, all these creatures at the zoo. Walking on all kinds of feet, dancing to an inner beat. Babies riding on their backs, on their bellies, snug in sacks. Hear the silly sounds they speak, as they howl and squawk and shriek! But just who is talking about whom? With a clever twist of text and bright and festive illustrations, this picture book will have children begging for a trip to the zoo. Ages 4-8.

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In this humorous twist on a visit to the zoo, just who has the more interesting view? As morning dawns, the zookeeper makes his rounds, exhorting the animals to wake up, comb their hair, and stand up straight. Soon their human visitors arrive, and the observations begin to flow: My, what silly th...

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Text-to-Teaching Connection
Great book! I enjoyed reading this book because so many different activities come to mind. This would be a great book to read with PreK-2nd grade when teaching about poetry and what poetry is. As a class, you could write a class poem on Easel paper and model writing a poem. Then let the children write their own poetry and illustrate their poem to hang up in the hallway. This book also teaches about days of the week that you could bring into the poem for the younger chi...more

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Text-to-Teaching ConnectionGreat book! I enjoyed reading this book because so many different activities come to mind. This would be a great book to read with PreK-2nd grade when teaching about poetry and what poetry is. As a class, you could write a class poem on Easel paper and model writing a poem.

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One Leaf Rides the Wind by Celeste Mannis

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One Leaf Rides the Wind by Celeste Mannis

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One Leaf Rides the Wind is a poetry book that is suitable for children of all ages and can be used in so many different ways.

Throughout this book you will find a haiku on each page that introduces counting. Not only is this a poetry book that can be used to introduce math but it also uses very descriptive words that can be used to help students use a wider range of vocabulary to enhance their writing. Both of those aspects can be implemented at different levels of education which makes it extre...more

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Christina/ The Blog for Teachers, Readers, & Life!

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One Leaf Rides the Wind is a poetry book that is suitable for children of all ages and can be used in so many different ways. Throughout this book you will find a haiku on each page that introduces counting.

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Amazon.com: A New Green Day (9780823444885): Portis, Antoinette: Books

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Where do poems come from? This beautiful picture book about a young aspiring poet and his grandfather shows that the answer lies all around us--if we take the time to look.

After Kiyoshi watches his grandfather, Eto, compose his delicate haiku, he wonders out loud: "Where do poems come from?" His grandfather answers by taking him on a walk through their city, where they see a cat perched on a hill of oranges; hear the fluttering of wings; imagine what's behind a tall wall; and discuss their walk, with each incident inspiring a wonderful new haiku from Eto. As Kiyoshi discovers that poems come from the way the world outside of us meets the world within each of us, he also finds the courage to write a haiku of his own.

This lovely book will speak to any reader who treasures poetry, city life, grandparents, or the beauty of the everyday.

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Kiyoshi's Walk [Karlins, Mark, Wong;Nicole, Wong;Nicole] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Kiyoshi's Walk

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A children's book takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the world to discover an amazing collection of full moon celebrations, beliefs, customs, and facts. We'll visit India, Israel, Morocco, China, Australia, and many more places.

In the night sky, nothing is more magical than the full moon that rises every month. When it shines, all kinds of fascinating things occur. Tides rise to enormous heights. Children dare each other to climb a staircase to the moon. Families eat cakes with a moon inside. Campers watch out for werewolves. And sometimes, the whole moon disappears in the earth's shadow.

Come along on a whirlwind tour of the world to discover an amazing collection of full moon celebrations, beliefs, customs, and facts. We'll visit India, Israel, Morocco, China, Australia, and many more places to see what can happen ... when a full moon is rising!

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A Full Moon is Rising [Singer, Marilyn, Cairns, Julia] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Full Moon is Rising

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The Llama Who Had No Pajama by Mary Ann Hoberman

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The Llama Who Had No Pajama by Mary Ann Hoberman

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The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems

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The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems [Hoberman, Mary Ann, Fraser, Betty] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems

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Follow the Recipe: Poems About Imagination, Celebration, and Cake

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Follow the Recipe: Poems About Imagination, Celebration, and Cake [Singer, Marilyn, Priceman, Marjorie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Follow the Recipe: Poems About Imagination, Celebration, and Cake

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Ice! Poems about Polar Life by Douglas Florian

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Ice! Poems about Polar Life by Douglas Florian

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Ice! Poems About Polar Life [Florian, Douglas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ice! Poems About Polar Life

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This was one of my favourite books as a child, I love Roald Dahl's wit in turning the fairytales we all know and love on their heads. There are six revolting rhymes retelling famous tales such as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood, each one being full of gruesome details and full of satire. I love how these are really entertaining for children but also very amusing for adults as well, a talent Roald Dahl possesses in spades.

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This was one of my favourite books as a child, I love Roald Dahl's wit in turning the fairytales we all know and love on their heads. There are six revolting rhymes retelling famous tales such as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood, each one being full of gruesome details and full of satire.

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Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways. Concrete poetry is a perennially pop...

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This collection includes books for the emergent reading level. I included books that talk are entertaining and fun for children to start out with whether they are in school or at home. These books are great examples of emergent literacy because of the rich vocabulary, the character's expressions, and the reading comprehension. These are all things that children will see in books in order to become successful readers!

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A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanna Bloom

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A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanna Bloom

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Bear is trying to read and write, but this goose keeps interrupting him. How will Bear respond to Goose's note of friendship after all that?

Ahh, Bear is a very patient soul, and able to remember what matters in the long run. I think Bear should get a reward. I would've been a bit upset at Goose myself in his position. But it is hard to resist Goose's sweet note. A great book to read and then talk about how to respond to others who are annoying you or constantly interrupting you. Also a good chan...more

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Bear is trying to read and write, but this goose keeps interrupting him. How will Bear respond to Goose's note of friendship after all that? Ahh, Bear is a very patient soul, and able to remember what matters in the long run. I think Bear should get a reward.

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Yo! Yes? By Chris Raschka is a fun book about an African-American boy and a white boy meeting and their exchange by a couple words. The illustrations are very bright and colorful and show the development of their friendship. The stance of the boys is very repetitive but it shows a development of characters. They start on different ends of the page and end up next to each other by the end of the book.

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Yo! Yes? By Chris Raschka is a fun book about an African-American boy and a white boy meeting and their exchange by a couple words. The illustrations are very bright and colorful and show the development of their friendship. The stance of the boys is very repetitive but it shows a development of characters.

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Read 288 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Fox wishes he were a tiger. Tigers are big and fast and sneaky. So he decides to become on...

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Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick

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Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick

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Baby Monkey, Private Eye: Selznick, Brian, Serlin, Mr. David, Selznick, Brian + Free Shipping

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A Pig, A Fox, and A Box by Jonathon Fenske

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A Pig, A Fox, and A Box by Jonathon Fenske

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A Pig, a Fox, and a Box (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2)

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In the style of Mo Willems, Jonathan Fenske tells three humorous stories of two friends, Pig and Fox, and their shenanigans with a cardboard box (all of which involved Pig accidentally crushing Fox in the box). With comic art and simple language, this Level 2 reader is sure to have kids rolling w...