Trudy's Big Swim

Trudy's Big SwimBy: Sue Macy Illustrator: Matt Collins On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach at Cape Gris Nez, France, and faced the churning waves of the English Channel. Twenty one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned. Lyrical text, stunning illustrations and fascinating back matter put the reader right alongside Ederle in her bid to be the first woman to swim the Channeland

and Love from the Crayons

illuminating the human stories behind each city’s iconic housing type

The interactive writing prompts at the end of each passage make the educational material more engaging

ways of life

the human population hibernates

It seems the deceased periodontist was quite the Don Juan of the PTA

The police are calling it suicide

Because of Papa Peyton

now translated into English by Udaya Prashantha Meddegama

By: Greg Pizzoli     From Geisel Award-winning author Greg Pizzoli comes a hilarious picture book about a duck who learns just how lucky she is

and reveals that--in a world that seems increasingly childish--the secret to joy is in fact to become more childlike

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