Author Showcase By Kathryn Starke, for The Children’s Book Review Published: October 31, 2011 Multicultural Children’s Literature that Teaches Global…
Month: October 2011
If you had the chance to change one thing about yourself, what would you be willing to give up in exchange?
The Secret Lake is a ‘time-slip’ mystery adventure, set in one of London’s Notting Hill communal garden squares, in which Stella and Tom, when trying to find their elderly neighbour’s missing dog, discover a tunnel that leads to a secret lake.
Doodlers, explorers, young scientists, and craft enthusiasts, unite!
Fairy tales have the power to teach us valuable lessons about love, loyalty and friendship. In these stories, characters are transformed into magical beings, sacrifices are made in their honor and small creatures perform enormous acts of courage and daring.
Children that learn to appreciate language at an early age tend to find more interest in books and learning and, consequently, they usually do better in school.
Jeanne Walker Harvey is the author of a fascinating new children’s book My Hands Sing the Blues which traces the childhood migration of young Romare Bearden as he leaves his grandparents in Charlotte, North Carolina and then moves to New York City to eventually become a great painter during the Harlem Renaissance.
This hilarious and inventive drawing book by animator Chris McDonnell features page after page of off-the-wall gags and fillin doodle prompts.
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