Children's Books
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The Two Brothers [Hardback]
William Jaspersohn (Author); Michael A. Donato (Illustrator)
£16.00ISBN: 9780916718169
Published by : Vermont Folklife Center
Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s a... .... Learn More -
John and Tom [Hardback]
Willem Lange (Author); Bert Dodson (Illustrator)
£16.00ISBN: 9780916718176
Published by : Vermont Folklife Center
Popular North Country yarn-spinner Willem Lange interprets the true tale of a young logger who is saved by his remarkable Morgan horse after an accident in the woods. Luminous watercolors beautifully convey the mutual bond of love... .... Learn More -
The Scrimshaw Ring [Hardback]
Vernon Thornblad (Illustrator); William Jaspersohn (Author)
£16.00ISBN: 9780916718190
Published by : Vermont Folklife Center
In sparkling prose, acclaimed author William Jaspersohn retells a powerful, true story about a young boy's encounter with a band of mutineers who, much to the boy's surprise, leave him a remarkable
memento. Illustrator Vernon T... .... Learn More -
The Ghost on the Hearth [Hardback]
Susan Milord (Author); Lydia Dabcovich (Illustrator)
£16.00ISBN: 9780916718183
Published by : Vermont Folklife Center
In the summer of her twelfth year, a poor girl named Emily leaves home to work on a farm in rural Quebec. Besides cooking and cleaning, Emily's chores include, every night, scraping the candlewax from the family's big stone hearth... .... Learn More -
Alec’s Primer [Hardback]
Mildred Pitts Walter (Author); Larry Johnson (Illustrator)
£16.00ISBN: 9780916718206
Published by : Vermont Folklife Center
As a young boy born into slavery in Virginia, Alec Turner was forbidden to learn to read. Naturally he was frightened when Zephie, his owner's granddaughter, first offered to teach him, but she told him that if he learned to read,... .... Learn More -
Daisy and the Doll [Paperback]
Michael Medearis (Author); Angela Shelf Medearis (Author); Larry Johnson (Illustrator)
£8.00ISBN: 9780916718237
Published by : Vermont Folklife Center
Boldness and a gift for improvising verse enable eight-year-old African American Daisy Turner to triumph over an incident of discrimination in her nineteenth century rural Vermont school. Told in Daisy's voice, the book's themes ... .... Learn More -
Malian’s Song [Hardback]
William Maughan (Illustrator); Marge Bruchac (Author)
£17.00ISBN: 9780916718268
Published by : Vermont Folklife Center
Young Malian lives contentedly with her parents and extended family in an Abenaki village near Montréal in the mid-eighteenth century. One night, Malian's life changes abruptly. Silently, her father carries her off to the w... .... Learn More -
The Lighthouse Santa [Hardback]
Julia Miner (Illustrator); Sara Hoagland Hunter (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9781611680065
Published by : Flying Dog Stories & University Press of New England
For Kate, life at the Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket Island can be exciting, full of stormy seas and even shipwrecks. But it can also be lonely, with only her mother, father, and brother Sam to keep her company. Now it's Chri... .... Learn More -
Snowball [Paperback]
Judith Oksner (Illustrator); Sy Montgomery (Author)
£9.00ISBN: 9780872331563
Published by : Bauhan Publishing
This is the true story of how an unwanted cockatoo achieved international fame as a YouTube sensation, television star, and scientific study subject, all by rocking out to the beat of his favorite tunes. Snowball tells the story w... .... Learn More -
Oscar the Herring Gull [Paperback]
Susan Spellman (Illustrator); Nancy M. Donovan (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781931807692
Published by : Peter E. Randall Publisher
Children will delight in the story of Oscar, a herring gull born at the Isles of Shoals. Through the story of Oscar's life young and old learn about the ways of gulls. At the end of the story Oscar answers questions readers have a... .... Learn More
