Holly Celebrates is Book One of the Holly Celebrates Series. Holly absolutely adores a celebration, because all her days are Holly-Days. Holly eagerly awaits each holiday and celebrates with enthusiasm and verve. Holly particularly enjoys celebrating the Martin Luther King Holiday, because she likes sharing her knowledge of Dr. King with her family and friends. Holly loves gathering her friends and marching in the MLK Day parade to honor Dr. King, his service, and sacrifice. Join Holly as she Celebrates - MLK Day!

An award-winning journalist’s dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future On the last evening of summer in 2013, five shots rang out in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the area had become an “invisible city” within a historically white metropolis. While shootings there weren’t uncommon, the identity of the shooter that night came as a shock. Terrance Roberts was a revered anti-gang activist. His attempts to bring peace to his community had won the accolades of both his neighbors and the state’s most important power brokers. Why had he just fired a gun? In The Holly, the award-winning Denver-based journalist Julian Rubinstein reconstructs the events that left a local gang member paralyzed and Roberts facing the possibility of life in prison. Much more than a crime story, The Holly is a multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter. With a cast that includes billionaires, elected officials, cops, developers, and street kids, the book explores the porous boundaries between a city’s elites and its most disadvantaged citizens. It also probes the fraught relationships between police, confidential informants, activists, gang members, and ex–gang members as they struggle to put their pasts behind them. In The Holly, we see how well-intentioned efforts to curb violence and improve neighborhoods can go badly awry, and we track the interactions of law enforcement with gang members who conceive of themselves as defenders of a neighborhood. When Roberts goes on trial, the city’s fault lines are fully exposed. In a time of national reckoning over race, policing, and the uses and abuses of power, Rubinstein offers a dramatic and humane illumination of what’s at stake.

Join Holly as she celebrates December with three complete Holly-Day stories in one book designed to highlight diversity and inclusion. Read them one-at-a-time, or read all three at once! Celebrate December with Holly! Whether Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall - Holly Celebrates them all. Holly loves a celebration, and all her days are HOLLY-Days. Holly eagerly awaits each Holly-Day - celebrating with enthusiasm and verve. In Holly Celebrates December, Holly and her crew celebrate, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa - enjoying a fun-filled December loaded with Holly-Days, family, and festivities! ​​​​​​​ Holly Celebrates December is Book Eight of the Holly Celebrates Series.

Whether Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall - Holly Celebrates them all. Holly loves celebrations, and all her days are HOLLY-Days. Holly eagerly awaits each Holly-Day - celebrating with enthusiasm and verve. In Holly Celebrates Kindness - Holly learns kindness does not need a special season or reason, so she and her friends sprinkle a bit of kindness every day.

Join Santa's family while they celebrate their Holly-day After traditions!

Introducing the latest addition to the Who HQ program: board book biographies of relevant and important figures, created specifically for the preschool audience! The #1 New York Times Bestselling Who Was? series expands into the board book space, bringing age-appropriate biographies of influential figures to readers ages 2-4. The chronology and themes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s meaningful life are presented in a masterfully succinct text, with just a few sentences per page. The fresh, stylized illustrations are sure to captivate young readers and adults alike. With a read-aloud biographical summary in the back, this age-appropriate introduction honors and shares the life and work of one of the most influential civil rights activists of our time.

Martin Luther King, Jr. grew up in the South and learned about racism. He became a leader and taught the world about equality. Follow his story and learn why we still celebrate a man and his dream today.-p.4 of cover.

"...school and public librarians will want to include this in their collections. The audio version...will be in great demand." - School Library Journal

Holly Jorgensen lives simply and close to the earth, with passion, serenity, and mindfulness. In Enchanted, she shares her secrets-antidotes to that pressure to buy, buy, buy. Whether rescuing junk or discovering life lessons from a half-wild mustang, a totem pole, or legendary musicians, Holly pursues true value-grace and grit rather than status and glitz. Her stories speak of the circle of life, from using discarded objects to transform a neglected property into a beloved homestead, to her friendships with wild critters-even fish! Holly's intimate nature photography and pictures of upcycled projects reveal how embracing imperfection can free us to live a more joyfully green and frugally rich life.