Rachel Isadora
1) Say hello!
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A little girl greets people in her neighborhood in many different languages
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Resets in Africa the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale of a girl who proves that she is a real princess by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds.
4) Rapunzel
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Recasts in an African setting the familiar fairy tale in which a beautiful girl with extraordinarily long hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume, unpaged : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch. A retelling of the Grimm fairy tale set in Africa.
9) Firebird
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A simple retelling of the Russian tale in which Prince Ivan encounters the magical Firebird who helps him defeat the evil Kotschei and rescue a princess
11) Young Mozart
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the famous Austrian composer
13) Peekaboo bedtime
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A toddler plays peekaboo with parents, grandparents, toys, and the moon while getting ready for bed
14) Uh-oh!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As an African American toddler keeps getting into mischief throughout the day, the reader is invited to discover what the trouble is with each page-turn and to say "uh-oh."
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The inhabitants of South Africa divide their activities by day and night, as the animals in Kruger National Park go about their business while the people of Johannesburg sleep and then lie down in the shade as the people wake up
17) ABC pop!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by illustrations in a pop art style.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, An Imprint of Penguin Young Readers, Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
36 un-numbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The inhabitants of Old Makimba's farm in Africa, including a baboon, an elephant, and a lion, are described, verse by verse. Includes facts about African animals
20) There was a tree
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A favorite children's song, "The Green Grass Grew All Around," becomes a colorful book filled with African wildlife