“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children condemned parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this b…
Robert Newton Peck's novel of a Vermont farm boyhood has become a celebrated classic, captivating readers year after year with its quiet humor and poignant drama. It is the timeless story of one Shaker boy, his beloved pet pig, and the joys and hardships that mark his passage into manhood. A Day No Pigs Would Die is told in a unique and compelling voice, one with all the unadorned power of a Sh…
With Aerogrammes, Tania James once again introduces us to a host of delicate, complicated, and beautifully realized characters who find themselves separated from their friends, families, and communities by race, pride, and grief.
Learning about shapes is roarsome fun with this irresistible book of dinoshapes! From triangles to circles, rectangles to squares, each dinosaur on its prehistoric background introduces a new shape for babies and toddlers to learn. The innovative illustrations are all created by adding fun photographs of everyday things for children to spot to big, bold fingerprints, which have tactile, raised …