This book is told in verse, which really sets a cool tone. It's heartbreakingly beautiful in the pain of the little dog separated from her boy, but you know by the parallel stories that there will be many resolutions, and the book delivers on that promise. I love happy, triumphant endings, and th...
This is no ordinary fairy tale princess story. I cannot remember last when a children's book touched me so deeply. I read this at the same time as my precocious 7 year-old daughter, who read independently at night while I read ahead during the day.. We read the last 3 chapters together out loud...
Young Timothy wants to prove that his grandfather is fine and that he doesn't have to go into a nursing home. He suggests he and his grandfather go camping and fishing and together they seek to borrow his grandfather's old truck camper from the veterinarian who purchased Grandpa's veterinary bus...
Young boys are forever seeking competition to be the fastest or best at doing something. Tony dared his best friend, Joel, to climb the Starved Rocks buffs with him; however, Joel thought the only reason dared him was because Tony was scared of swimming in the dangerous Vermillion River. Joel d...
My 4th and 5th grade students have loved this book! Loosely based on a real bear presently residing in the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth, Minnesota, Trouble started his life in the Anchorage, Alaska area. The story speculates that Trouble had probably been driven off by his mother, as he was abou...