Illustrations and lyrics introduce a song, first recorded in 1967 by Louis Armstrong, which celebrates the wonders of nature, loving friends, and the promise of the future in a baby's cry
A richly detailed picture book ingeniously shows how food, technology and even families have changed throughout American history by depicting four families in four different cities over the course of four centuries making the same delicious dessert called Blackberry Fool.
A tribute to the love and devotion of stepfamilies by the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Underneath and the best-selling illustrator of Little Blue Truck follows a little fox's struggle to accept his mom's new husband.
A tribute to the brave example of the Loving family describes how they were arrested in mid-20th-century Virginia for violating laws against interracial marriage and argued their case all the way to the Supreme Court, prompting a landmark civil rights triumph.
Hiding her secret identity as a monster-fighting superhero, Princess Magnolia interrupts her fancy tea with the unsuspecting Duchess Wigtower to stop a big blue monster from endangering her kingdom's goats.
A modern-day fairy tale set in a mysterious museum introduces young skeptic and unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard, who on her first day in the strange museum where her father works discovers a boy locked away in a long forgotten room as a prisoner of Her Majesty the Snow Queen—and he has been waiting for Ophelia's help.
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.
A historically accurate, stand-alone companion to Shadows on the Sea follows the experiences of a girl who is kidnapped by her Nazi spy mother and taken to live in war-stricken Berlin, Germany, where she finds support from a special dog and a family she never knew.
When her peaceful home life in 1972 Cape Cod is devastated by her mother's serious health problem, 11-year-old Chirp finds comfort in a bird watching hobby and a mysterious friend with whom she creates a private world filled with adventure and discovery.
Using a mysterious book to travel to a land of wonder and magic, twins Alex and Connor meet a host of classic fairy tale characters and nefarious monsters before discovering that returning back home will be more difficult than anticipated.