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Yang's debut book is about ten-year-old Mia Tang and her family who, after a couple years struggling financially, are hired to manage a motel. It is the first book in the 5-part series. The family is hired by the owner of the Calivista, Mr. Yao. Although originally seeming nice, he's later revealed to be a penny-pinching liar.
The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1982, The New Read-Aloud Handbook, 1989,The Read-Aloud Handbook, Sixth Edition, 2006. Reading Aloud: Motivating Children to Make Books Into Friends, Not Enemies (film), 1983. Turning On the Turned Off Reader (audio cassette), 1983. (Editor) Hey! Listen to This: Stories to Read Aloud, 1992. (Editor) Read all About It!:
The idea for Heather Has Two Mommies was not Newman's own. [5] While out for a walk, Newman was approached by lesbian parents and asked to write a children's story about a family like theirs. [5] The parents explained that there were no books that they could show their daughter that portrayed the life of a family with lesbian parents. [5]
[2] Jim Gladstone wrote in The New York Times, "I suspect that parents and grandparents will enjoy reading these conversationally cadenced stories aloud, savoring Peck's sweet (but never too sentimental) evocations of, say, Kate Smith, 'the Songbird of the South,' singing; Armistice Day celebrations; W.P.A. artists' post office projects; and ...
Joseph arrived in 2022 after landing in Florida two years earlier to escape violence in Haiti, journeying north on word of good job prospects. ... Vance read aloud a letter from Springfield ...
The Family Book is a 2003 children's picture book written and illustrated by Todd Parr that details the daily lives of all kinds of families. [1] Each unique family structure is depicted with vivid illustrations that complement the book’s themes of family diversity and inclusivity. [2]
Literacy rates are tumbling as kids' attention spans dwindle. Families are scraping together funds to move schools or get tutors, driving a societal divide.
The Brave Little Toaster is a 1980 novella by American writer Thomas M. Disch intended for children or, as put by the author, a "bedtime story for small appliances". The story centers on a group of five household appliances—a tensor lamp stand, an electric blanket, an AM radio alarm clock, a vacuum cleaner and a toaster—on their quest to find their original owner referred to as the Master.