Sometimes my heart feels like a big yellow star, shiny and bright.I smile from ear to ear and twirl around so fast,I feel as if I could take off into the sky.This is when my heart is happy.
Happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness . . . our hearts can feel so many feelings! Some make us feel as light as a balloon, others as heavy as an elephant. In My Heart explores a full range of emotions, describing how they feel physically, inside. Editorial Reviews "Observant readers will notice tiny surprises hidden in plain sight: a red balloon, a tiny mouse and sparrow popping up here and there in the story.
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An Amazon Best Children's Book of the Month from the New York Times bestselling author of the Goodnight Already!
Series This is a book about a bad seed. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Editorial Reviews "Conceptually radical . . . making the refreshing and contrarian case that words alone have sensory and imaginative vibrancy to spare.
"—Mark Levine, The New York Times Book Review* "“This book may not have pictures, but it's sure to inspire lots of conversations—and laughs . . . A riotously fresh take on breaking the fourth wall. ?
Steve is a fine horse,? Begins Kelly Collier's clever picture book. ? But he thinks he could be finer. He wants to be EXCEPTIONAL.? A #1 New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller The creators of the New York Times bestselling picture books Rosie Revere, Engineer and Iggy Peck, Architect are back with a story about the power of curiosity in the hands of a child who is on a mission to use science to understand her world.
“Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls” reinvents the fairy tale by telling heroic stories of 100 real women who’ve changed the world.
" “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls” is a collection of 100 illustrated stories that celebrate extraordinary women. From Elizabeth I to Serena Williams, “Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls” features 100 real women of the past and the present who have achieved incredible results, despite all odds. Painters, scientists, dancers, chefs, astronauts, jazz singers, pharaohs, boxers, writers, political leaders… Rebel girls whose actions have changed the course of history.
From every corner of the globe. “As female entrepreneurs, we’ve often wished we had grown up surrounded by more female role models”, explains co-founder and CEO Elena Favilli. New York Times Bestseller Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she’s a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer.
When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal—to fly—Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt’s dream come true. Finalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction "On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs.
Based on supermodel Georgie Badiel’s childhood, a young girl dreams of bringing clean drinking water to her African village With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. Every morning, she rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water. Inspired by the childhood of African–born model Georgie Badiel, acclaimed author Susan Verde and award-winning author/illustrator Peter H. Editorial Reviews Praise for The ArrivalA New York Times Best Illustrated BookBook Sense Book of the Year -- Honor BookWorld Fantasy Award -- Best ArtistAn ALA Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for TeensA Horn Book Fanfare Best BookA Publishers Weekly Best BookNew York Magazine''s Top Comic BookA School Library Journal Best Book"Mesmerizing...
Such visual eloquence can only motivate readers to seek out any future graphic novels from Shaun Tan, regardless of where they might be shelved. " -- New York Times Book Review"Astonishing. " -- The Washington Post"A wordless tour de force. " -- Time Out New York Kids* "A silent, fantastical masterpiece... Vincent van Gogh is now known as an acclaimed, incomparable Post-impressionist painter. But when he lived in Arles, France, in the 1880s, he was mocked for being different. Back then, van Gogh was an eccentric man with wild red hair who used clashing hues to paint unusual-looking people and strange starry skies. Editorial Reviews "Gene Luen Yang has created that rare article: a youthful tale with something new to say about American youth. " -New York Times Book Review"Like Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Laurence Yep's Dragonwings, this novel explores the impact of the American dream on those outside the dominant culture in a finely wrought story that is an effective combination of humor and drama.
" -School Library Journal, Starred Review". . . brilliantly written and designed, sophisticated and wise. " -The Miami Herald". . . one of the most powerful and entertaining works of literature to be published this year . . . " Editorial Reviews "...simple, sensuous text...The objects described with embossed lines that force readers to encounter them tactilely rather than visually. Editorial Reviews. Editorial Reviews. Editorial Reviews "Joyce’s Academy Award-winning animated short-film-turned-app that celebrates those who care about (and receive nourishment from) books is, ironically, now a picture book. Editorial Reviews.