Poor Nora has stayed inside all week with a cold with only Kiki the dog, Teddy the bear, and Maggie the doll for company, while the roses bloom just outside her window. One by one, visitors pass, each stopping to pick a rose on his way. Soon there won't be any roses left! But with a little imagination, Nora discovers just the right way to cure her sick-in-bed boredom and make her roses last forever.

Tales of Romance by Andrew Lang is a collection of stories from the medieval Book of Romance. Contents: "The Story of Robin Hood, Wayland the Smith, Some Adventures of William Short Nose, The Sword Excalibur, How Grettir the Strong Became an Outlaw, Death of Grettir the Strong..."

Peasants of all sorts, tillers of the land, yeomen, and as some say Knights, went on their ways freely, for of them Robin took no toll; but lordly churchmen with money-bags well filled, or proud Bishops with their richly dressed followers, trembled as they drew near to Sherwood Forest—who was to know whether behind every tree there did not lurk Robin Hood or some of his men...FROM THE BOOKS.

A heartwarming story with stunning art by a Caldecott Medalist show how neighbors band together during the devastating Vermont Flood of 1927. A jewel!

Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical outlines the largely forgotten achievements of this overlooked labor union activist and socialist sympathetic to anarchist, feminist, and secularist ideas: a dynamic speaker, who eventually emigrated to Paraguay to live on a utopian commune called Cosme. In this first book-length study of Summerfield, Shone supplements existing scholarship with new information, revealing to a much fuller extent Summerfield’s contributions to radical thought, documenting the substantial scope of her contributions to women’s rights activism in New South Wales in the 1890s, a topic that has previously been almost completely ignored.