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Nasreen's Secret School

A True Story from Afghanistan

by Winter, Jeanette

Young Nasreen has not spoken a word to anyone since her parents disappeared.In despair, her grandmother risks everything to enroll Nasreen in a secret school f...

The Tale of Pale Male

A True Story

by Winter, Jeanette

The true story of two red-tailed hawks who nested on a tall apartment building on Fifth Avenue in New York City in 1993 and thereby attracted widespread attent...

Mama

A True Story, in Which a Baby Hippo Loses His Mama during a Tsunami, but Finds a New Home, and a New Mama

by Winter, Jeanette

When the tsunami struck on December 26, 2004, a herd of hippos was swept out to sea and an infant hippo was separated from his mother. He was rescued and taken...

Elsina's Clouds

by Winter, Jeanette

In South Africa, a Basotho girl paints designs on her house as a prayer to the ancestors for rain.

Beatrix

Various Episodes from the Life of Beatrix Potter

by Winter, Jeanette

This simple biography of Beatrix Potter, best known for writing The tale of Peter Rabbit, includes excerpts from her published letters and journals and reveals...

Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World

by Winter, Jeanette & Dickinson, Emily

A brief description of the life of Emily Dickinson and a selection of her poems.

My baby

by Winter, Jeanette

As she waits for her baby to be born, a young African woman describes some of the sights and sounds of her Mali homeland as she creates a beautiful bogolan clo...

Sebastian

a book about Bach

by Winter, Jeanette

Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.

My Name Is Georgia

A Portrait

by Winter, Jeanette

Presents, in brief text and illustrations, the life of the painter who drew much of her inspiration from nature.

The Tortilla Cat

by Willard, Nancy & Winter, Jeanette

When all five Romero children get sick, a magical cat appears in the night and cures them of their fevers.