In the streets and canals of Venice, Gabriella can hear nothing but sweet music. The drying laundry goes slap-slap, the church bells go ting-aling-ling, and the lire go jing-aling-ling. Soon, Gabriella is humming her way through town...

Dear Jamshed,American is not so different from what we thought. I told you I wouldn't see a single cowboy riding across the plain, and I haven't.I have not even seen a plain.Still there are some silver linings. They are:1. Trapper and...

Meet Imogene Tripp, a plucky girl with a passion for history. As a baby, her first words were "Four score and seven years ago." In preschool, she finger-painted a map of the Oregon Trail. So it's not surprising that when the...

In the sequel to The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by award-winning author Candace Fleming, Mr. Jupiter's rambunctious students are fifth graders now . . . and they rule the school! Bernadette Braggadoccio stirs thi...

These contemporary "fables" are instructive, hilarious, and now in paperback!The fourth graders at Aesop Elementary are, well, unusual. There's Calvin Tallywong, who wants to go back to kindergarten. But when he actually ge...

Come along for the ride in thisrollicking read-aloudthat's also acounting bookfilled with fun!Who invitedPossum,Skunk,Frog,Muskrat,Heron,Coon,and -- uh oh! --Gatoralongon a nice little girl's boat trip down the bayou?NO ONE, that's wh...