Timeless Stories & Poetry
The First Teddy Bear
by Helen Kay
The well-loved story about how President Teddy Roosevelt spared the life of a little forest bear and how Morris Michtom celebrated the event by producing the first stuffed teddy bear.
A Swinger of Birches
Poems of Robert Frost for Young People
Introduction by Clifton Fadiman
Poems about birds, trees, flowers, people and the land with full-color, full page illustrations. 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" - 80 pages
I'm Nobody, Who Are You?
Poems of Emily Dickinson for Young People
With full-color illustrations on every page, all faithful to ninetheenth-century New England, the book gives loving attention to Dickinson’s best-loved poems for chldren.
Under the Greenwood Tree
Illustrated by Robin & Pat DeWitt
The purpose of the collection is to instill the enjoyment of the poetry for its own sake, unchanged from Shakespeare’s working and without reference to play plots or sonnet sequence. Accompanied by glorious full-color paintings.
Young Brer Rabbit and Other Trickster Tales From the Americas
by Jacqueline Shachter Weiss
A completely fresh treasure trove of the sly rabbit’s adventures in tales from Central and South America.
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My Ocean Liner
by Peter Mandel
The story of a young boy traveling in 1939 with his parents from New York to France on the legendary ocean liner Normandy.
I Hear The Wind
by Greg Budig
A hypnotic story about what happens when a child’s imagination greets the wind as it whistles past the house at night. Budig’s musical prose and provocative illustrations invite the reader to see the invisible wind by listening to the sounds the wind makes.