Island

IslandBy: Alistair MacLeod Series: Penguin Modern Classics (Canada) Joyce Carol Oates gives us a precise image of the experience of reading these stories: "that sudden feeling of insecurity that comes to a traveler in unmapped country; a sense of immediacy, cinematic in its vividness." The seventeen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to

By: Libby Babbott-Klein | Illustrator:  Jessica Walker   Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg

that is—in this “superb and terrifying” (Chicago Tribune) work of nonfiction

以孩子最愛的交通工具為主題，帶領孩子觀察消防車的外形和聲音，以及雲梯、掛梯、水帶箱、滅火器等設備，一窺救火的步驟和方式。

being in over your head

babies chasing butterflies

Each week provides you and your child with a simple 5-day plan:

Peter Maass went to the Balkans as a reporter at the height of the nightmarish war there

not of extermination

) on Christmas Eve

Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan and award-winning artist Steven Kellogg portray life’s natural cycle: its beauty

When I am at my best

interesting and grounded in research - it is bound to make a difference in the lives of millions’ Tal Ben-Sahar