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An immensely significant biography of the powerful activist Lillian Wald, a social and education reformer dedicated to helping less fortunate citizens in New York.
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When the Little “Read” Hen’s friends won’t help her write an “egg-cellent” story, she doesn’t let it ruffle her feathers—she just does it herself! Readers of all ages will laugh aloud at the determined Little “Read” Hen as she coops herself up and cracks open her books for research.
Because of an illness in the family that her mother has to attend to, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being shipped off to boarding school from her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky. Paperback.
As the New Year dawns, the Ware children—Holland, Jack, Joyce, Mary, and Norman—find themselves on a train to a boarding camp for their ill mother, Mrs. Ware, in Maricopa, Arizona. Paperback.
The vivacious Lloyd Sherman, better remembered as the Little Colonel, is growing up. When Christmas break comes along, Lloyd and her friends are filled with excitement over all of the parties and dances that they will attend. Christmas break is sure to bring Lloyd happiness, but with it also comes painful disappointment. Will she ever be allowed to return to her beloved friends and school? Paperback.
In this entry in the Little Colonel Series, Lloyd Sherman, the title character, leaves her Kentucky home with her parents on an adventure that takes her across the Atlantic and through Europe. While in Geneva, the Little Colonel meets Major Pierre de Vaux and his magnificent, specially trained St. Bernard, Hero. Paperback.
Following her successful house party, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds her friends returning to their homes as the end of the summer approaches, signaling the beginning of the school year. Paperback.
“I’m eleven yeahs old, anyway, I’d have you to undahstand, Bobby Moore,” answered the Little Colonel, with such dignity that Rob wished he hadn’t spoken. “I was eleven last week. That was one of my birthday presents, havin’ my own way about cuttin’ my hair, and anothah was the house pahty. Oh, you don’t know anything about the house pahty I’m to have in June, do you!” she cried, every trace of displeasure vanishing at the thought. Paperback.
The childish adventures of Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, come to an end in The Little Colonel’s Knight Comes Riding, the last in the Little Colonel series. After their return to Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky, from Warwick Hall in Washington D.C., the Little Colonel and friends Kitty Walton and Betty Lewis find that the young boys they have grown up with have matured into graceful young men. Paperback.
The Little Colonel is back, and this time she’s a maid of honor. Her friend Eugenia is getting married, and the whole wedding party has come to stay at Lloyd’s house. The old fashioned term for this kind of extended sleep-over/get-together is a “house party.” Paperback.
One of the most beloved heroines of American children’s literature, the Little Colonel, a delightful young Kentucky girl, is the central figure in this nostalgic tale of growing up in a leisurely age. Paperback.
“Little Freddie is a story about having the courage to make your dreams come true,” says author Kathryn Cocquyt. “With enough desire, hard work, and care for those around you, even the loftiest of dreams can be achieved.” The story of Little Freddie, a Kentucky Derby racehorse, teaches children the valuable lesson of believing in one’s self and discovering one’s inner strength.
Kathryn Cocquyt’s character, the racehorse Little Freddie, certainly became a legend in her first children’s book. The anticipated success of Cocquyt’s second title about his successor and daughter is closing in on his popularity. In the new book, Little Freddie’s Legacy, Freddie has just returned to the pastures of his parents a proud Kentucky Derby victor. He soon realizes that there is more to life than races as he falls in love with the beautiful blind mare Rosie and sires his first foal, a filly named Baroness.
Little Red jets off to take fresh crab cakes to her grandmother. Everything goes swimmingly—until a big, bad tiger shark attacks! Little Red has to use her cuttlefish defenses—camouflage, quick reflexes, and squirting an ink cloud—to outwit the shark, combining science and spunk.
Adults may see many things in life as small, but to young children, those little things aren’t small at all. This story, told in humorous rhyme from a child’s perspective, helps remind us all in what a big world we live. Alison Davis Lyne’s illustrations burst out of the book, from a magnified beetle to Aunt Mildred’s face, which fills the page waiting for a not-so-little kiss. Covering a wide range of childhood experiences, from scary ones such as going to the doctor for a “little shot” to loving ones such as receiving a “little note” from Mom in a lunchbox, this is a book with which all children can truly connect.
Here are the adventures of a Little Thumb that enters the dark, damp mouth of a child and encounters some pretty scary stuff—sharp, biting teeth, weird slurping sounds, and sneaky mouth germs—all the reasons little thumbs should stay out of little mouths! Paperback.
Author Michael Chandler and his young son, Preston, spent many winter afternoons working a snowplow through the drifts of Colorado snow near their Little Woody Creek horse ranch. Sometimes they made paths for cars, for people, or for cattle, and sometimes they just made paths for fun. One day they decided to clear a road that led to a snowbound home. The owner, a rugged cowboy named Joe Henry, asked if someone had hired them. When they said no, the cowboy smiled, and they all became fast friends. A few weeks later, Joe Henry—a one-time miner, hockey player, and sailor who now wrote cowboy poetry—invited them to his Christmas Eve celebration.
WITH A MUSIC CD BY JOHN DENVER