Catherine Stock
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Gus despairs of coming up with something interesting and impressive for his second-grade class's show-and-tell, until he gets a great idea while visiting Grandpa.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Gus doesn't want to give up the training wheels on his bike, even for a new five-speed bicycle, until Grandpa helps him learn how to get along without them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After Gus, who would rather play outside than practice music, does not do too well at his piano recital, his grandfather shows him how music can be fun.
28) Galimoto
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Walking through his village, a young African boy finds the materials to make a special toy.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
35 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Two-hundred nineteen people from thirty-two different countries make their way to downtown New York in a snowstorm to be sworn in as citizens of the United States.
31) After the kill
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Learn all about food chains with examples of animals who live in the jungle.
32) Painted dreams
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Because her Haitian family is too poor to be able to buy paints for her, eight-year-old Ti Marie finds her own way to create pictures that make the heart sing.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Rosie's preparations for Christmas on the island of Trinidad include picking red petals for the sorrel drink, mixing up the black currant cake, and singing along with the parang band.
34) Snowed in
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Snowed in for the winter at their Wyoming frontier home in the early twentieth century and unable to attend school, Grace and Luke keep busy reading, studying, singing, and sharing stories.
36) Midnight snowman
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a town where it hardly ever snows, one neighborhood's parents and children take advantage of a late night snow by building a snowman before the snow turns to rain.
37) Tap-tap
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
34 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After selling oranges in the market, a Haitian mother and daughter have enough money to ride the tap-tap, a truck that picks up passengers and lets them off when they bang on the side of the vehicle.
38) The evening king
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy pretends to be a sea captain, explorer, giant, magician, monster, and king.