Michelson, Richard

When Aaron was a boy his Grandpa, or Zayde, would not teach him Yiddish, but as an adult, Aaron longs to learn the language and history of the old country from Zayde and his many books.

Descriptions of different animals highlight the numbers from one to ten and their multiples of ten, such as a sloth having three toes while a centipede has thirty feet.

Humorous poems about different kinds of flies are accompanied by factual information about these creatures.

Illustrations and text describe the life of Lipman Pike, who grew up more interested in baseball than his father's small haberdashery in Brooklyn, and became one of the sport's iconic players.

A parent's teasing assurances that ghosts, witches, vampires, and other creatures are no danger fuel the imagination of a child in the dark.

Bused across town to a school in a white neighborhood of Boston in 1974, a young African-American boy named Brewster describes his first day in first grade. Includes historical notes on the court-ordered busing.

A collection of short poems about all kinds of unusual animals, including the Backtalk Bat, the Roombroom, and the Channel Changer.

Describes the experiences that influenced Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Joshua Heschels's civil rights activism and discusses the friendship between the two men.

Traces twelve generations of the Tuttle family's history as one of New England's oldest farming families, describing the hardships they faced and how each generation strived to make the farm larger and more productive.

An older brother "reassures" his younger sister about all the creatures that she imagines lurking in the dark bedroom, but his words only scare her more.