"We will make a quilt to help us always remember home," Anna'smother said. "It will be like heaving the family in backhome Russiadance around us at night. And so it was. From a basket of old clothes,Anna's babushka, Uncle Vladimir's shirt, Aunt Havalah's nightdressand an apron of Aunt Natasha's become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. For fourgenerations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy,and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world. In strongly moving pictures that are asheartwarming as they are real, patricia Polacco tells the story ofher own family, and the quilt that remains a symbol of theirenduring love and faith.
Bats fly into the spotlight in this exploration of such basics as where the live, how mothers raise their pups, and how they hunt for food. Included as well is a simple plan for a building a backyard bat house.
Based on several episodes of The Cat in the HatKnows a Lot About That! , the new animated series on PBSKids, this Deluxe Paint Box Book features 64 pages of insects topaint! Kids ages 3-7 will love bringing ants, bees, fireflies, andmore to life with 16 different watercolors and a paintbrush.
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The moreyou learn, the more places you'll go". In this delightful book, Dr.Seuss celebrates the joys of reading, encouraging young children totake pride in their budding reading abilities. With his uniquecombination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes,Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learnto read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchicCat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's top ten favouritechildren's authors, Seuss is firmly established as a globalbest-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. Asthe first step in a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins isrelaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss's best-selling books, including suchperennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham andFox in Socks. In response to consumer demand, the bright new coverdesigns incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels, withthe standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands - B
The sun shines down on us, giving warmth and light. But didyou know that the sun also makes the seasons? As the earth makesone complete rotation around the sun every year, the seasons on theearth change -- from winter to spring to summer to fall and back towinter again. Find out how the light from the sun affects life onthe earth for all living things in this look at the only star inour solar system.