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Hollis Woods - Young foster girl.. The Regans - Old man, Izzy, and Steven. They want Hollis to be a part of her family even though she pushes them away. Josie - An elderly retired art teacher who adores Hollis, but is forgetful, so Hollis is afraid that the agency will find out and make her go to a different foster home, so she takes her to the Reagans summer cabin/house.
The plot in the movie is slightly different from the book. Rather than losing the desire to live, Grandpa suffers a stroke, and Willy has to win the race to save his Grandpa's cattle ranch. Stone Fox also leaves Willy a puppy after the death of Searchlight, who is named "Morgan" in the film.
James Henry Trotter is a boy who lives happily with his parents in a house by the sea in the south of England.Unfortunately, when he is four years old, an oddly carnivorous raging rhinoceros escapes from the London Zoo and eats James' parents whilst they are on a shopping trip in the capital.
A librarian at the University of New Brunswick, Lesley Beckett Balcom, recommends the book with reservations, stating, “the sensational illustrations, bold and surreal, are the strength in a book that tries rather too hard to teach a lesson.” [18] An English teacher at Indiana University Northwest believes that A Bad Case of Stripes is “a ...
The Big Orange Splot is a children's picture book by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. It was published in 1977 by Scholastic Inc., New York. The age range is ages 4–8, and all 32 pages have a full color picture.
The book, edited by Ursula Nordstrom, is the first in the series to be published by Harper. [1] It was originally set to be titled The Blue Chair. [2] The story of Peter's Chair addresses family conflicts such as sibling rivalry and running away from home, echoing events in Keats' own childhood.
[2] This question lead her to consider writing a story where the theme was "overlooking differences in order to find common ground." [ 2 ] When she returned to California, she began to create a children's book with this theme that featured bats; creating this book took several years. [ 2 ]
Snow Treasure is a children's novel by Marie McSwigan. Set in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II, it recounts the story of several Norwegian children who use sleds to smuggle their country's gold bullion past German guards to a waiting ship, the Cleng Peerson. [1] [2] [3] Published in 1942, it has been in print ever since. [4]