Isadora, Rachel

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by an illustration of a ballet-related word.

The perilous adventures of a toy soldier who loves a paper dancing girl culminate in tragedy for both of them.

Illustrations and rhyming text evoke the rhythms of jazz music.

Heather, a young ballerina, experiences the off-stage and on-stage excitement of opening night at the ballet.

Going to Europe with her parents aboard ship about 1908, Agatha balks at the restrictions placed on a young girl at that time.

After Joey and his sisters see a pirate film at the movie theater, the adventures of Captain Redbeard continue--if only in Joey's imagination.

Labeled pictures portray children visiting, building, drawing, laughing, hugging, and engaging in similar friendly pursuits.

Twilight signals the end of the day for the people of Johannesburg, South Africa, while only two hundred miles away the setting sun lets the animals of Kruger National Park know it is time to wake up and begin their nightly activities in the cool of the dark.

Max finds a new way to warm up for his Saturday baseball game--his sister's dancing class.

A very young child names the things she touches.