Michael's love for his great-great-aunt who lives with them leads him to intercede with his mother, who wants to toss out all her old things.

A man recalls all of the important lessons Mama taught about behavior and faith in God as he was growing up.

A child says goodnight to the natural world and all those that occupy it.

When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system.

Enter the Old Kingdom, a world of dark secrets and dangerous magic. As a child, Sabriel was sent across the Wall to Ancelstierre to safety. Now eighteen years old, she receives a cryptic and desperate message from her father, the Abhorsen--the magical protector whose task it is to bind and send back to Death those who won't stay Dead. Fiercely determined to help her father, who is perilously trapped in Death, and save him from the sinister Free Magic...

Rhymed text and illustrations relate how Wizard Gray changed his very gray world with color.

Recounts the journeys of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

Illustrations with cut-out shapes and rhyming questions introduce fruits, colors, and shapes.

A collection of illustrated Eskimo folktales. In The Man Who Married a Seagull, a lady seagull is transformed into a human so she can marry one, The Wolverine Secret is on a raven who stole the sun and the moon, while in the title story a food shortage threatens a village when a girl stops dreaming of geese, because geese only arrive if she dreams of them. Based on decades of research and extended collaboration with Inuit storytellers, award-winning...