Looking for one hundred shoes is no easy job Thaddeus tries his best to hide from his mother's impatient voice as she reminds him that it is shoe hunting day. Being a centipede with one hundred legs, he is found as flat as he can be in his favorite hiding place, under a rug. But his unhappy mother drags him out from under the rug and they set out into the nearby meadow to look for comfortable materials for shoes for his one hundred feet. Thaddeus reluctantly but obediently tries on various pieces of meadow materials, even unthawed snow, but problems are met with all of them. Slipping and...

"Maddie's Magic Tree" is the story of a young girl's love for animals and nature. She excitedly sees the first white, winter's snowflakes as she rises from bed. She rushes out into the surrounding meadow and meets the hero of the story, a young Pine tree heavily covered in snow with a magic wave to Maddie as she relieves the tree from the white burden on its branches, a group of animals and birds all receiving magical gifts from the tree, and a spying Maddie from behind a tree that magically sends animals to successfully find food during the winter. Magic Magic Magic The author inspires...

This is a book that you can read in one sitting. In fact, you will not put it down in hurry. Ms. Redfern's wisdom throughout her writings is clearly evidenced in the table of contents. However, the listing of each chapter offers the readers insights into what we cannot see within our children. The author's insight is well defined in the first article, "Outside vs. Inside," in the contrast between the five senses on the outside with the place or space within our children, where an affirmation of them as a person will forever need nurturing within their academic journey. "The Acclamations"...