All the World
Pictures and rhyming text celebrate a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant and spending the evening with the rest of the extended family.
Big Red Lollipop
Having to take her younger sister along the first time she is invited to a birthday party spoils Rubina's fun, and later when that sister is asked to a party and baby sister wants to come, Rubina must decide whether to help.
Bridget's Beret
When Bridget loses the beret that provides her with artistic inspiration, she thinks she will never be able to draw again.
Curious Garden
While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world.
El Barrio
A young boy explores his vibrant Latino neighborhood, with its vegetable gardens instead of lawns, Nativity parades, quinceañera parties, and tejana and salsa music.
Forever Friends
Seasons come, seasons go. But a little brown bunny and a graceful blue bird discover that friendship, true friendship, lasts forever.
I Need My Monster
When Ethan's resident "under the bed" monster named Gabe takes an unexpected vacation, a host of substitutes apply to fill in for him.
Incredible Book Eating Boy
Henry loves to eat books, until he begins to feel quite ill and decides that maybe he could do something else with the books he has been devouring.
Interrupting Chicken
Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.
Ivan the Terrier
A terrier named Ivan keeps interrupting story hour. Like that one about the three bears or those three gruff billy goats. Where else can a dog find such playmates action fun... or a cookie? Ivan's own good story lands him just where he loves to be. In your lap.
Jazz on a Saturday Night
Bright colors and musical patterns make the music skip off the page in this toe-tapping homage to many jazz greats from Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Thelonious Monk to Ella Fitzgerald.
Lily Brown's Paintings
When Lily Brown paints, she imagines all sorts of fantastic things in the scenes that she sees every day.
Naming Liberty
In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States in the late 1800s, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the United States' centennial.
The Secret Olivia Told Me
Olivia shares a secret with her best friend who then lets it slip to someone else, and soon everyone knows about Olivia's secret.
Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride
Born into slavery, Belle had to endure the cruelty of several masters before she escaped to freedom. Still, she knew that she wouldn't really be free unless she was helping to end slavery and injustice in America. That's when she changed her name to Sojourner and began traveling across the country, demanding equal rights for black people and for women.
Sparrow Girl
When China's leader declares war on sparrows in 1958, everyone makes loud noise in hopes of chasing the hungry birds from their land except for Ming-Li, a young girl whose compassion and foresight prevent a disaster.
Spork
His mum is a spoon, his dad is a fork, and he's a bit of both: he's Spork, a utensil who just doesn't seem to fit into the regimented world of the cutlery drawer.
Summer Birds
The story of how a young girl living in the 17th century observed and documented the life cycle of butterflies--and in so doing disproved an ancient theory.
Umbrella Queen
When Noot is finally allowed to paint umbrellas like the other women and girls in her village, she secretly hopes that she might be chosen as this year's Umbrella Queen.
Yoon and the Jade Bracelet
A girl at school offers to teach Yoon how to jump rope if Yoon will loan her the jade bracelet given to her for her birthday. When Yoon tries to get her bracelet back, the girl swears it's hers.
