Sophie Blackall
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Everyone needs things to look forward to: big things and small things, on good days and on bad days, whether we actively create delight for ourselves or simply allow it to enter our lives.
In these pages, beloved author and illustrator Sophie Blackall has gathered a collection of joys for all of us—reminders that every day the sun comes up and new babies are born. She includes suggestions that you bake muffins for a friend, or draw...
In these pages, beloved author and illustrator Sophie Blackall has gathered a collection of joys for all of us—reminders that every day the sun comes up and new babies are born. She includes suggestions that you bake muffins for a friend, or draw...
Author
Description
Sooner or later, every child will ask, Where do babies come from? Answering this question has never been this easy or entertaining! Join a curious little boy who asks everyone from his babysitter to the mailman, getting all sorts of funny answers along the way, before his parents gently set him straight. This title includes read-along subtitles.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
Description
In this picture book, a boy writes a letter to an imagined alien, explaining all the things he will need to know about Earth and the people who live here--and adding a postscript asking what the alien might look like.
6) Negative cat
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Max isn't a typical cat, but his loving owner still sees the best in him"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
8) Ahoy!
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Join a child captain and parent first mate as they embark on a wild high seas adventure--all without leaving the living room! This imaginative romp of a picture book is filled with glorious illustrations from a beloved Caldecott Medalist and New York Times bestselling creator.
Raise the mainsail! Batten the hatches! It's time to set sail...on the couch! There's a storm coming, and a child is ready to captain the ship. "Make haste and climb aboard,"...
9) Farmhouse
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.
10) If I was a horse
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"A child imagines what life would be like as a horse"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Description
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
12) A voyage in the clouds: the (mostly) true story of the first international flight by balloon in 1785
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"A picture book inspired by the true story of how the first international flight was an Englishman and a French man who rode in a balloon across the English Channel"--
Dr. John Jeffries and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, each want to be the first man to fly from one country to another, across the English Channel. There's only one problem: they can't stand each other! Inspired by the true story of the first international flight.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
18) Pecan pie baby
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Mama's pregnancy draws attention away from Gia, she worries that the special bond they share will disappear forever once the baby is born.