Author: Xinran and The Mothers' Bridge of Love
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782855165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Featured in Time Magazine’s Top Ten Children’s Books of 2007, this beautiful poem celebrates the bond between parent and adopted child in a special way. Through the exchanges between a little girl born in China and her adoptive parent, this title offers a poignant and inspiring message to adoptive parents and children all over the world. Text royalties are donated to the charity The Mothers’ Bridge of Love, founded by bestselling author Xinran.
Motherbridge of Love
Author: Xinran and The Mothers' Bridge of Love
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782855165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Featured in Time Magazine’s Top Ten Children’s Books of 2007, this beautiful poem celebrates the bond between parent and adopted child in a special way. Through the exchanges between a little girl born in China and her adoptive parent, this title offers a poignant and inspiring message to adoptive parents and children all over the world. Text royalties are donated to the charity The Mothers’ Bridge of Love, founded by bestselling author Xinran.
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782855165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Featured in Time Magazine’s Top Ten Children’s Books of 2007, this beautiful poem celebrates the bond between parent and adopted child in a special way. Through the exchanges between a little girl born in China and her adoptive parent, this title offers a poignant and inspiring message to adoptive parents and children all over the world. Text royalties are donated to the charity The Mothers’ Bridge of Love, founded by bestselling author Xinran.
Mama's Right Here
Author: Susan Kerner
Publisher: Star Bright Books
ISBN: 1595725253
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Mama’s Right Here is a gentle reminder that a mother’s love never disappears. Even when a mother is absent, her presence is constant in a child’s heart. With comforting rhyme and gentle illustrations, Mama’s Right Here brings the important message to children that a mother’s love is always with them– in the way they look, and in everything they do.
Publisher: Star Bright Books
ISBN: 1595725253
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Mama’s Right Here is a gentle reminder that a mother’s love never disappears. Even when a mother is absent, her presence is constant in a child’s heart. With comforting rhyme and gentle illustrations, Mama’s Right Here brings the important message to children that a mother’s love is always with them– in the way they look, and in everything they do.
Will You Still Love Me, If . . . ?
Author: Catherine Leblanc
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 988824051X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
An imaginative journey through a child’s big questions about the nature of a mother’s love Little Bear is worried. Just how much does his mom love him? What if he does something really bad? What if something bad happens to her? But a mother’s love is strong, and as Little Bear finds out, nothing can change that.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 988824051X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
An imaginative journey through a child’s big questions about the nature of a mother’s love Little Bear is worried. Just how much does his mom love him? What if he does something really bad? What if something bad happens to her? But a mother’s love is strong, and as Little Bear finds out, nothing can change that.
Bridge of Clay
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375896996
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be life-changing." NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way." —The Washington Post "Mystical and loaded with heart, it's another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them." —Entertainment Weekly “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome? Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375896996
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be life-changing." NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way." —The Washington Post "Mystical and loaded with heart, it's another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them." —Entertainment Weekly “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome? Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
Author: Xinran
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451610947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 by Chatto & Windus.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451610947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 by Chatto & Windus.
A Year Without Mom
Author: Dasha Tolstikova
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554986931
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Now available in paperback, Dasha Tolstikova’s acclaimed graphic novel A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America — a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves. Dasha Tolstikova’s major talent is on full display in this gorgeous and subtly illustrated graphic novel. Key Text Features map Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554986931
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Now available in paperback, Dasha Tolstikova’s acclaimed graphic novel A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America — a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves. Dasha Tolstikova’s major talent is on full display in this gorgeous and subtly illustrated graphic novel. Key Text Features map Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Catch a Kiss
Author: Deborah Diesen
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1634709233
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Izzie just loves when her mama blows her kisses to catch. Smooch kisses, zig-zag kisses, and even triple decker kisses! But even though she runs and leaps for it, Izzie misses a kiss! Her heart sinks as she watches it zip higher and higher into the sky. When Mama lets Izzie in on a sweet secret she realizes that her mama's love will always come to find her, no matter what! This silly and tender story is a universal one of a parent's love.
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1634709233
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Izzie just loves when her mama blows her kisses to catch. Smooch kisses, zig-zag kisses, and even triple decker kisses! But even though she runs and leaps for it, Izzie misses a kiss! Her heart sinks as she watches it zip higher and higher into the sky. When Mama lets Izzie in on a sweet secret she realizes that her mama's love will always come to find her, no matter what! This silly and tender story is a universal one of a parent's love.
The Tear Thief
Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782855645
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Why does the magical Tear Thief catch children's tears as they fall? Find out in this moving tale about how we express our feelings. Lyrical text by Carol Ann Duffy, one of the most prominent poets writing today, makes this a lovely read-aloud.
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782855645
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Why does the magical Tear Thief catch children's tears as they fall? Find out in this moving tale about how we express our feelings. Lyrical text by Carol Ann Duffy, one of the most prominent poets writing today, makes this a lovely read-aloud.
Nine Ms and a Mother Like No Other
Author: Martial Bednar
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440155089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In the memoir Nine Ms and a Mother Like No Other, Martial Bednar brings warmth, wit, and insight to this entertaining narrative about his family and their trials and triumphs as they survive a messy divorce, cross-country road trips in broken down jitneys, several siblings split into foster homes, and life-threatening medical experiences and in the end, still consider themselves blessed. Told with candor and humor from the kid brother's unique perspective, Bednar begins with a colorful description of his mother Peggy an heiress whose husband walked out after twenty years of marriage and nine children who became a desperate housewife long before it was in vogue. As he chronicles his jaw-dropping childhood adventures, Bednar also introduces his siblings (the nine Ms) and shares the inspirational story of his brother Merrick, a priest-in-the-making whose profound health crises not only strengthen his own faith, but also the fabric of his entire family. This true story often hysterical, at times heartbreaking gives testimony to the inseparable bonds of family, the incredible power of perseverance and prayer, and the life-sustaining gifts of faith, hope, and love.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440155089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In the memoir Nine Ms and a Mother Like No Other, Martial Bednar brings warmth, wit, and insight to this entertaining narrative about his family and their trials and triumphs as they survive a messy divorce, cross-country road trips in broken down jitneys, several siblings split into foster homes, and life-threatening medical experiences and in the end, still consider themselves blessed. Told with candor and humor from the kid brother's unique perspective, Bednar begins with a colorful description of his mother Peggy an heiress whose husband walked out after twenty years of marriage and nine children who became a desperate housewife long before it was in vogue. As he chronicles his jaw-dropping childhood adventures, Bednar also introduces his siblings (the nine Ms) and shares the inspirational story of his brother Merrick, a priest-in-the-making whose profound health crises not only strengthen his own faith, but also the fabric of his entire family. This true story often hysterical, at times heartbreaking gives testimony to the inseparable bonds of family, the incredible power of perseverance and prayer, and the life-sustaining gifts of faith, hope, and love.
Mommy Wishes
Author: Rose Bunting
Publisher: Cottage Door Press
ISBN: 9781680523737
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A mother's wish for her little one is a precious thing. This story lets children know how special they are to their parents.
Publisher: Cottage Door Press
ISBN: 9781680523737
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A mother's wish for her little one is a precious thing. This story lets children know how special they are to their parents.