Through sublime landscapes and warm images of a boy and his family, this adaptation of the beloved folk song creates a dazzling, inimate interpretation that rejoices in the connectedness of people and nature.
With a little encouragement from his sister, Ramon discovers that creativity is about a lot more than getting things just "right". Combining the spareness of fable with the potency of parable, the creator of The Dot shines a bright beam of light on the need to kindle and tend our creative flames with care.
In the shadow of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, eighth-graders and new neighbors Bird Mallon and Thomas Neary make some decisions about what they want to do with their lives.
Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
Explores the everyday life of two Muslim children and their families in Egypt. Includes information about the country's food, clothing, housing styles, religion, and education.
Explore urban and rural daily life in households in Mexico through a child's point of view. Spend a day with two families and learn about Mexican food, clothing, housing styles, religion and education, customs and social life.
Follows a year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives and neighbors.
Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.
