How did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn? Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn't even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing a tin horn and collecting stuff people didn't want. Then one day, the junk wagon passed a pawn shop with a gleaming brass trumpet in the window. . . .
With messages about hard work, persistence, hope, tolerance, cooperation, trust, and friendship, A Horn for Louis is...
How did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn? Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too po...
It's a fine bright day, and all the animals are working--all except Anansi, that is He's sleeping, as usual. Warthog, Lion, and Zebra laugh so hard at his messy house that they wake him up. Anansi stomps off in a huff--right into an amazing secret Hyena has a magic stick that follows his orders. If Anansi steals the stick, he'll never have to work again, and his home will be the neatest one in town. Is the magic stick his secret for success? Or the beginning of disasters he can't even imagine?
It's a fine bright day, and all the animals are working--all except Anansi, that is He's sleeping, as usual. Warthog, Lion, and Zebra laugh so hard a...
Rose Zar flees the Piotrkow ghetto to live under false papers as an Aryan Pole. Tough, quick and gutsy, she outwits and outbluffs those who would turn her in. Rose's ironic picture of Nazi domesticity and her genuine friendship with the colonel's wife make this a unique book from beginning to end.
Rose Zar flees the Piotrkow ghetto to live under false papers as an Aryan Pole. Tough, quick and gutsy, she outwits and outbluffs those who would turn...
While the three little tamales cool off on a windowsill, a tortilla rolls by. -You'll be eaten. You'd better run - he tells them. And so the tamales jump out the window. The first runs to the prairie and builds a house of sagebrush. The second runs to a cornfield and builds a house of cornstalks. The third runs to the desrt and builds a house of cactus. Then who should come along but Senor Lobo, the Big Bad Wolf, who plans to blow their houses down
While the three little tamales cool off on a windowsill, a tortilla rolls by. -You'll be eaten. You'd better run - he tells them. And so the tamales j...
Eric Kimmel takes the traditional tale Stone Soup south of the border in this whimsical picture book. Brilliant watercolors and a text interspersed with Spanish words make this retelling a treat to read and hear. A savory stew.--Booklist, starred review.
Eric Kimmel takes the traditional tale Stone Soup south of the border in this whimsical picture book. Brilliant watercolors and a text interspersed wi...
Eric A. Kimmel Laura Huliska-Beith Laura Huliska-Beith
Little Red Hot loves red hot chili peppers. She eats them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When her grandmother catches a cold, Little Red makes her a hot pepper pie that will -knock those cold germs right out of her.- But before Little Red shares her pie with Grandma, she meets Senor Lobo - and the pie comes in very handy when the wily wolf tries to trick her into thinking he's her grandmother.
Little Red Hot loves red hot chili peppers. She eats them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When her grandmother catches a cold, Little Red makes her ...