Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Social Themes - General (see also headings under Family)

A MAY/JUNE 2000 BOOKSENSE '76 SELECTION
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"The use of foreshortening and a wide variety of camera angles makes each page a visual surprise. The emotions so clearly portrayed on each character's face echo those of the reader, who will finish this book with a broad smile."--Children's Literature

"This handsome picture book will be useful for encouraging children to play around with geometry at home or in the classroom."--Booklist

In China, a beautiful ceramic tile lies shattered on the ground, and the artist who dropped it is sentenced...

Following her successful house party, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel,
finds her friends returning to their homes as the end of the summer approaches,
signaling the beginning of the school year.
While Joyce, Eugenia, and Betty return to their homes, the Little Colonel
begins to regret having met her friends, due to the loneliness of having to lose
them again.
But as Christmas approaches, the Little Colonel finds herself volunteering at
the childreni1/2s hospital where, through her dying friend, Dot, she learns the
true meaning of the holidays and...

Because of an illness in the family that her mother has to attend to, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, is shipped off to boarding school from her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky.

During the semester, the Little Colonel becomes friends with Ida Shane, founds a Shadow Club to raise money for the poor, and attends her very first Halloween masquerade.

But as the Little Colonel returns home to her loving family and awaits the beginning of the New Year, she learns the most important lesson of her time away at school: absence makes the heart grow fonder....

Multicultural, Nondenominational, Nonsectarian
Endorsed by Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Religious Leaders

"God was sad that the Prince and Princess had refused to see the answers to their prayers...."

Water and oil, light and dark, summer rain and desert wind: In this fable of opposites, award-winning author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso shows children and adults of all faiths and backgrounds how self-centered actions affect the people around us, and how by working together we can work with God--to create a better world.