In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterio…
I show up bright against the sky. I swoop and swoosh and flutter by. What can I be? What do you see? Stephen Krensky’s clever, rhyming text entices young readers to guess which endangered species are hiding beneath the flaps! From a panda bear to a monarch butterfly, each spread features text and flaps which hint at the animal’s identity, until finally it is revealed by lifting the fl…
A series of popular, traditional tales written in a simple way for children who are learning to read.'
Bringing a dramatic moment of World War II to vivid life.
Describes the characteristics of the world's rivers, the changes that rivers make on the land and the course of the river to the sea.