Based on the true story of Salva, one of some 3,800 Sudanese “Lost Boys” airlifted to the U.S. beginning in the mid-1990s …
category: Children's Books
ISABELLA GIRL IN CHARGE
Plucky, purple-haired Isabella, star of the New York Times
bestselling picture book series, is back for another adventure!
Just how high can a little girl dream?
THIS JAZZ MAN
In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional “This Old Man” gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era’s best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to Charles Mingus, who plays nine, plucking strings that sound “divine.”
Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count–and will give them every reason to get up and dance!
Includes a brief biography of each musician.
COMPLETE BAD UNICORN TRILOGY
All three book in Platte Clark’s Bad Unicorn Trilogy.
1. Bad Unicorn
2. Fluff Dragon
3. Good Ogre
GRANDPA’S FAVORITE
GRANDMA’S FAVORITE
THE SOCK THIEF
Brazilian boy Felipe wants to play soccer, but he doesn’t have a soccer ball. So, when it’s his turn to take one to school, he uses a little bit of creativity… and a few socks. Felipe is the sock thief, but finding socks is not that easy and the neighborhood pets make it even harder. “Au, au, au!” a dog barks in Portuguese. Felipe wonders if he’ll play soccer with his friends today or if he will be caught by a tattle-tale parrot? Along the way, Felipe leaves delicious mangoes in exchange for the socks he steals. After he swipes each pair, he twists and turns them into an ever-growing soccer ball. At the end of the day, he returns each pair of socks with a note to say thank you.
Learn how to pronounce the Portuguese words in the book: https://www.anacrespobooks.com/lets-learn-portuguese
Video, animation, and music by Dow Phumiruk
IN GOLD AND GLORY
ANYA’S WAR – paperback
Andrea Alban’s critically-acclaimed YA novel, Anya’s War, was inspired by her Jewish father’s childhood in war-torn Shanghai—a little known passage in Holocaust history.
Anya Rosen and her family have left their home in Odessa for Shanghai, believing that China will be a safe haven from Hitler’s forces. At first, Anya’s life in the Jewish Quarter of Shanghai is privileged and relatively carefree: she has crushes on boys, fights with her mother, and longs to defy expectations just like her hero, Amelia Earhart.
Then Anya finds a baby―a newborn abandoned on the street. Amelia Earhart goes missing. And it becomes dangerously clear that no place is safe―not for Jewish families like the Rosens, not for Shanghai’s poor, not for adventurous women pilots.
Based on a true story, Anya’s War by Andrea Alban is a rich, transcendent novel about a little-known time in Holocaust history.
TWO PROBLEMS FOR SOPHIA
Sophia and Noodle, her One True Desire, are together at last. But Noodle comes with two gigantic problems, and those problems are tearing Sophia’s family apart!
Can a little creative experimenting save Noodle? Or will Sophia have to bid him adieu?
Sophia quickly learns her new pet comes with two giraffe-sized problems in this enterprising sequel to One Word from Sophia
