Diane Dillon
23) Mama says
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A man recalls all of the important lessons Mama taught about behavior and faith in God as he was growing up.
26) Northern lullaby
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
A child says goodnight to the natural world and all those that occupy it.
28) The secret river
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.
Author
Pub. Date
1970.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system.
31) Earth Mother
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Portrays a day in the life of Earth Mother who, as she tends plants and animals around the world, meets three of her creations with advice on how to make the world more perfect.
32) The color wizard
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rhymed text and illustrations relate how Wizard Gray changed his very gray world with color.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A collection of illustrated Eskimo folktales. In The Man Who Married a Seagull, a lady seagull is transformed into a human so she can marry one, The Wolverine Secret is on a raven who stole the sun and the moon, while in the title story a food shortage threatens a village when a girl stops dreaming of geese, because geese only arrive if she dreams of them. Based on decades of research and extended collaboration with Inuit storytellers, award-winning...