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Ballet for Martha

Making Appalachian Spring

by Greenberg, Jan & Jordan, Sandra

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Emma's Poem

The Voice of the Statue of Liberty

by Glaser, Linda

Give me your tired, your poorYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free...Who wrote these words? And why? In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of...

Happy Birthday, Sophie Hartley

by Greene, Stephanie

Sophie Hartley is almost sure that her dad said okay when she asked for a baby gorilla for her birthday. Soon the kids at school want to know every detail abou...

Ubiquitous

Celebrating Nature's Survivors

by Sidman, Joyce

From the creators of the Caldecott Honor Book Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems . . .Ubiquitous (yoo-bik-wi-tuhs): Something that is (or seems to ...

An Eye for Color

The Story of Josef Albers

by Wing, Natasha

As a child, Josef Albers loved to watch his handyman father paint houses.When Josef grew up and became an artist, he reduced each image to its simplest shapes,...

Redwoods

by Chin, Jason

An ordinary train ride becomes and extraordinary trip to the great ancient forests A subway trip is transformed when a young boy happens upon a book about redw...

Red Sings from Treetops

A Year in Colors

by Sidman, Joyce

The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.

Orangutan Tongs

Poems to Tangle Your Tongue

by Agee, Jon

Have you ever gotten tripped up trying to say a silly succession of similar syllables? Of course--everyone has! It can be sometimes frustrating, but it's alway...

Way Up and Over Everything

by McGill, Alice

In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.

Duel!

Burr and Hamilton's Deadly War of Words

by Fradin, Dennis Brindell

In the early morning hours of July 11, 1804, two men stood facing each other on a New Jersey cliff side. One was the U.S. vice president, Aaron Burr, and the o...