"A huge cardboard box becomes a castle, a clubhouse, a racing car and more for Christina and her friend Fats. In it they swear undying friendship, wage furious battles--and drive Christina's mother crazy. You won't believe how much fun a cardboard box can be! A gleeful little story of imaginative playenlivened by the delightful illustrations. --School Library Journal The idea of imaginative play is convincingly and elaborately pursued. ..."
"Tanya, the spunky little ballerina who has danced through six other books by Gauch and Ichikawa, is growing up-but not as quickly as she wants to! When she sees the famous ballet The Red Shoes, Tanya wants to dance on toe, too. But everyone says "Not yet. One day, perhaps." When the day comes-and it does-her new point shoes are not at all what she dreamed. She feels like an elephant: clunk, clunk, clunk. Will Tanya ever make her dreams ..."
"Poppy creates magical puppets whose personalities are determined by what Poppy 'hears' in the wood before he carves it. When he takes his puppets on the road, their show becomes famous throughout the land.But one day Poppy impatiently shapes a ballerina puppet, Clarinda, from a piece of wood without listening carefully to the wood's message. Clarinda will not perform--and almost ruins the show--until Poppy discovers her secret wish."
"Everyone knows Tempe Wick is a most surprising girl, but she exceeds even her own reputation when two mutinous Revolutionary soldiers try to steal her beloved horse. Simultaneous."
"When ten thousand Revolutionary War soldiers spent the winters of 1780 and 1781 in Jockey Hollow, Tempe pitched right in to help feed and clothe them, and she kept right on helping even after her father died and her mother got sick. But mutiny was a different matter. Cold, tired, and unpaid, the Pennsylvania soldiers turned against their captains. A few of them even turned against the very farmers who had shared their wheat, their cows, ..."
"A huge cardboard box becomes a castle, a clubhouse, a racing car and more for Christina and her friend Fats. In it they swear undying friendship, wage furious battles--and drive Christina's mother crazy. You won't believe how much fun a cardboard box can be! A gleeful little story of imaginative playenlivened by the delightful illustrations. --School Library Journal The idea of imaginative play is convincingly and elaborately pursued. ..."
""The same little girl who is always one jete' behind in class is pure poetry in motion executing a pas de deux in the springtime meadow. Delicately expressive and infused with light, the illustrations and lilting prose are perfectly in step and grafitying."--School Library Journal, starred review. A Child Study Children's Book Committee (Bank Street College) Children's Book of the Year. Full-color."
""Irrepressible Christina Katerina returns, this time with a rebellion that a patient family allows her to pursue for a week--before luring her back with unusual tact that allows her to come with good grace . . . A picture book that will be enjoyed by young readers."--Kirkus Reviews. Full color."
"In the summer of 1777 the small town of Bennington, Vermont, was roused in the middle of the night. The British redcoats were on their way to take the supplies stored near Bennington! Nine-year-old Aaron Robinson pictured himself bravely running through the lines with messages for the generals, or heroically guarding his grandfather's tavern, or even taking part in a battle with the Green Mountain Boys. But instead he was told to help h ..."
"When Tanya and her mother arrive early to see a performance of CoppTlia, Tanya wanders off and meets an old woman who loves dance as much as she does."
"The Graves family has just moved to Union City, and they definitely don't fit in. With giant spiders in the living room, a voracious Venus flytrap named Phoebe in the kitchen, and a secret laboratory in the basement, the neighbors are afraid to visit! Except for Seth and Sara Miller, the kids next door, who decide to help them make friends. Maybe if Mr. Graves gives all the bald men in town his amazing hair-growing tonic, which he devel ..."
" This gorgeous collection of art (and the artists behind it) includes work by some of the world's most renowned children's book illustratorsMitsumasa Anno, Quentin Blake, Ashley Bryan, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Eric Carle, Tomie dePaola, Jane Dyer, Mordicai Gerstein, Robert Ingpen, Steven Kellogg, Leo Lionni, Petra Mathers, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jerry Pinkney, Alice Provenson, Robert Sabuda, Matthew Reinhart, Maurice Sendak, Gennady ..."
Kate Alone(Reprint) (Archway Paperback.) by PatriciaLeeGauch Paperback, 99 Pages, Published 1982 by Simon Pulse ISBN-13: 978-0-671-43870-8, ISBN: 0-671-43870-0
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"Tanya has danced her way into our hearts over and over again, and what better way to celebrate her (and little dancers everywhere) than with a treasury. Finally, we have three beloved Tanya books together: Dance, Tanya, where we meet Tanya for the first time, Tanya and Emily in a Dance for Two, where Tanya makes a new dancing friend, and the beautiful Presenting Tanya, the Ugly Duckling, where Tanya makes her debut on the stage. This ..."
"When Tanya's ballet teacher, Miss Foley, chooses her to dance the lead in the spring recital of The Ugly Duckling, Tanya wonders, Why? Right from the start, rehearsing is hard. Tanya feels clumsy. "Poor Tanya," she hears someone whisper, "she really is an ugly duckling." She wonders if she will ever get the dance right. It is at the dress rehearsal that she truly becomes the duckling, and in becoming the duckling, rises magically to her ..."
"More than anything in the world, Tanya loves to dance. But when her mother says she is too small to take dance lessons like her older sister, Tanya puts down her tutu and surprises everyone with a very special recital of her own. "A lovely book."--Kirkus Reviews. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Full color."
"Even the youngest of dancers will enjoy following Tanya as she learns new positions by imitating a cat, a frog, and an antelope in ballet class as children pull a tab to reveal a colorful illustration of the animal in the correct pose."
Noah(1st Edition) by PatriciaLeeGauch Hardcover, 1 Pages, Published 1994 by Philomel ISBN-13: 978-0-399-22548-2, ISBN: 0-399-22548-X
"A melodic narration, accompanied by sumptuous full-color illustrations inspired by the artist's Gullah childhood, provides a lyrical retelling of the story of Noah, the building of the ark, the coming of the animals, and the great flood."