Author: Audrey WoodPublisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 0358362628
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A child describes the feelings and emotions which are the mark of his individual self.
Quick as a Cricket
Author: Audrey WoodPublisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 0358362628
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A child describes the feelings and emotions which are the mark of his individual self.
Quick as a Cricket
Author: Audrey WoodPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0358411122
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A joyful celebration of self-awareness and acceptance known and loved by millions of children around the world, now with art remastered by the illustrator. In this classic children’s book by celebrated author-illustrator team Don and Audrey Wood, a young boy describes himself as "loud as a lion," "quiet as a clam," "tough as a rhino," and "gentle as a lamb." Readers will delight in the variety of animal expressions as they discover many different emotions, and learn to accept that all feelings are valid.
The Very Quiet Cricket
Author: Eric CarlePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593521552
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
One day, a little cricket is born and meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. But the little cricket cannot make a sound. The cricket meets many insects, but it isn't until he meets a beautiful female cricket that he can finally chirp "hello!" Excerpt: Hello! whispered a praying mantis, scraping its huge front legs together. The little cricket wanted to answer, so he rubbed his wings together. But nothing happened. Not a sound.
The Full Moon at the Napping House
Author: Audrey WoodPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544308328
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
In this cumulative tale, a chirping cricket calms a worried mouse, a prowling cat, and other restless creatures, helping them to finally fall asleep.
Heckedy Peg
Author: Audrey WoodPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152336790
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.
Piggies
Author: Audrey WoodPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152026387
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Ten little piggies dance on a young child's fingers and toes before finally going to sleep.
The Cricket in Times Square
Author: George SeldenPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466863625
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
After Chester lands, in the Times Square subway station, he makes himself comfortable in a nearby newsstand. There, he has the good fortune to make three new friends: Mario, a little boy whose parents run the falling newsstand, Tucker, a fast-talking Broadway mouse, and Tucker's sidekick, Harry the Cat. The escapades of these four friends in bustling New York City makes for lively listening and humorous entertainment. And somehow, they manage to bring a taste of success to the nearly bankrupt newsstand. Join Chester Cricket and his friends in this classic children's book by George Selden, with illustrations by Garth Williams. The Cricket in Times Square is a 1961 Newbery Honor Book.
Chirp
Author: Kate MessnerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547602821
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"[A] deftly layered mystery about family, friendship, and the struggle to speak up." - Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of Speak and Shout From acclaimed author Kate Messner comes the powerful story of a young girl with the courage to make her voice heard, set against the backdrop of a summertime mystery. When Mia moves to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, she's recovering from the broken arm she got falling off a balance beam. And packed away in the moving boxes under her clothes and gymnastics trophies is a secret she'd rather forget. Mia's change in scenery brings day camp, new friends, and time with her beloved grandmother. But Gram is convinced someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm. Is it sabotage or is Gram's thinking impaired from the stroke she suffered months ago? Mia and her friends set out to investigate, but can they uncover the truth in time to save Gram's farm? And will that discovery empower Mia to confront the secret she's been hiding--and find the courage she never knew she had? In a compelling story rich with friendship, science, and summer fun, a girl finds her voice while navigating the joys and challenges of growing up.
Eye of the Cricket
Author: James SallisPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
Author: Audrey WoodPublisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 0358362598
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself.