Anderson.Billy and Blaze are more than just friends—they’re heroes! When they spot smoke in the brush, they race through the woods to sound the alarm. At the end of the day, Billy and Blaze are rewarded for their bravery—with carrots for Blaze, chocolate cake for Billy, and a very special present that they can share. Blaze and the Forest Fire is part of the classic Billy and Blaze series. Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and special understanding between a boy and his horse.

    Hailed by the New York Times as a rare and original collection of "verbal and visual witticisms...as joyfully illustrated as it is absurd," ARM IN ARM has delighted children—and grown-ups—for years with its endless tales, gleeful riddles, circular poems, and fantastical drawings.

    After 25 years, it remains relevant in our own time. As you turn the pages you may say, I remember feeling like that! You may say, I feellike that now. As you look at Arouni's black and white illustrations and read the short but powerful one sentence captions, you feel the predicament of a black child adjusting to the new world of integration of the 1960s. You feel the mix of hope and dismay that characterized the decade. Langston Hughes was a writer who often made his readers ask hard questions about life. In Black Misery he wrote about prejudice and indifference, but he wrote with humor and compassion. Today--just as we did 25 years ago-we smile and even laugh, and we also understand that some things are more thanhard, are more than sad. They are pure misery. Black Misery was the last book that Langston Hughes wrote. He died in May 1967, while working on the manuscript.

    Jane can choose the doll she wants.Will she choose Bella Ballerina, the doll who can dance on her toes? Hairiette, who can change the way she wears her hair? Tillie Talkie? Irene-and-Her-Sewing-Machine?What about that forgotten doll, sitting high on a shelf with the left-over Christmas tree balls? She can't do anything. She doesn't even have a name. Jane wouldn't want that doll -- would she?

    Christmas is coming and she is bursting with excitement. She is absolutely sure that something special is going to happen this year. What will she find in her stocking? Will the Three Wise Men visit as she has always hoped? Who knows what may happen at this special time of year? She leaves her bedroom window open on Christmas Eve, just in case the Wise Men decide to come visit. When she wakes up on Christmas morning, more than one miracle seems to have taken place. In the event, this Christmas isn't like any she has ever known, especially when three ships sail into the harbour.

    After all of his adventures throughout the day he ends up back home realizing he had forgotten to run away. In the end he realizes he is no longer mad and besides he was now hungry and tired. Great story for kids!

    A biography of the woman who created Peter Rabbit as well as other stories read by children all over the world.

    Mildred is loudmouthed and bossy," Father said to Harvey, "but she is not mean and rotten."When Mildred goes off to a big party where little brothers are not invited, Harvey finds a secret club in a secret place where big sisters are not allowed to be members. But when Harvey's lonesomeness overpowers his stubbornness, he discovers that a secret club with two members is much better.

    

    Unbeknownst to Custer, he faced the combined might of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, led by their greatest chiefs, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Advised by his Indian scouts not to attack, the foolhardy general ignored their warnings and trusted to Custer s luck one last time. . . In this commemorative edition of his first published book, Goble recounts the tale of Custer s last battle through the eyes of Red Hawk, a fictional young Lakota warrior. Presented in the shorter format that Goble originally intended, and combined with a new author s introduction and a foreword by Joe Medicine Crow, the Crow tribal historian whose grandfather was one of Custer s own scouts, readers will marvel at this tale of honor and bravery.

    His head was up, his eyes flashed and his hoofs spurned the earth as if he wanted to be airborne. A thrill ran down Sally's spine - she tingled to her fingertips. A flush of excitement was in her cheeks as she asked, 'Can I try him?' From the moment he first sees her ride, Mr. Jameson knows Sally has the courage and spirit to do Phantom justice. The big, high-strung gray Thoroughbred is too much horse for most riders, but Sally and Phantom seem to understand one another...

    A family moves into a big Victorian house and discovers clues to a treasure hunt.

    How could a fourteen-year-old orphan, apprenticed to a master printer and too young to join the army, aid his country during its battle for independence from England? Sam found a way.

    When you are a boy of thirteen and weigh 274 lbs., like Porko von Popbutton, it's horrible. The story builds up to an international ice hockey game between the two top schools of America and Canada, a yearly classic which America never wins. Originally published as a story in Sports Illustrated in 1968.

    Cesare had n sons, no grandsons, not even a nephew. Of course he loved his pretty granddaughter Gemma very much - but how he longer for a boy.One chilly December afternoon on his way home to the Trastevere, the poorest section of Rome, Cesare picked up an old, old, woman. She looked so much like the legendary Befana, who brings gifts to Italian children at Christmas, that he jokingly asked her to bring him a grandson. And she smiled.How Befana answers Cesare's wish provides an exciting family story filled with the warmth that has become Natalie Carlson's trademark. Young readers will feel that they have been living in the winding back alleys of Rome with Gemma and Cesare when they have finished BEFANA'S GIFT. Robert Quackenbush's vivid drawings capture the special magic that is Rome at Christmastime.

    With the help of a spirit called the Gratch, an artist becomes very successful by changing his style of painting.

    Read how a secret youth prayer meeting, a family holiday to Hungary and a suitcase of old clothes bring Katya and Ivan close to danger once again as they desperately try to outwit the Secret Police.