There is magic in everything. The world is a spinning star, No matter how old you are. This visually stunning book is a celebration of the the special bond between a grandparent and child as they share the magic, joy and love in the world, both past and present. This book brings together two of the most exciting talents in children's books.

An enchanting graphic novel, When I Was a Kid is a collection of black and white drawings and handwritten narratives that depict short stories from a kid's formative years growing up in Malaysia - stories of surviving school, siblings, and parents - when the world was indeed, seen as simply black and white. Dedicated to the forgotten child in every reader, these tales of imaginary heroes, lies adults like to tell children, and the dangerous mix of boredom with curiosity appeal to anyone who might long for a more innocent time.

Are you afraid whenyou go to bed?This book will putgood thoughtsin your head.

From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD, HOME and LILA comes this wonderful, heart-warming collection of essays about reading. 'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama Marilynne Robinson is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving fiction, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous collection she returns to the themes which have preoccupied her bestselling novels: the place literature has in life, the role of faith in modern living, the contradictions inherent in human nature. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our best-loved writers.

"When I was little, I could hardly do anything. But now I can do lots of things, like braid my own hair and go to nmusery school. I'm not a baby anymore. I'm me!"Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell perfectly capture a little girl's simple, childlike celebration of herself, as she looks back on her childhood from the lofty height of four and a half years. This spirited view of growing up is perfect for the youngest readers.

This is a book about my mom and my dad.this is a collection of stories from a time before mine, of love, war, and rock and roll.

This book is about the baby Nigerian dwarf goat PEPPER- telling her story of her adventures while growing up with her sister SALT on the farm, starting at birth on a cold snow-covered day in early spring and continuing through to winter in late fall. Being much smaller than many of the other big breeds of dairy goats, PEPPER and SALT discover the trials and tribulations of growing up along with getting into more mischief and trouble than most goats their age.

When I was a child, I did not live with what I went through. All I can say is it was completely gone. If something happened the night before or during a weekend, I simply did not know. I felt a sense of sadness inside or maybe a knowledge I was different. But I had no explanation for this foreboding feeling. As I grew closer to eight years old, I became aware of the fact that I had no parent, mother or father. I did not mourn it though. It didn't even seem important to me. I lived in a strange place. I did not know anything. I believe to keep the memories down until I could handle them. After my mother died, it was time. She was gone. My world changed. Something about her being dead opened a tremendous fear. A fear I had to deal with, or it would end me.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Småland, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his older brothers emigrate to America. In this novel of the life of a farm boy, first published in three volumes in 1946, Vilhelm Moberg sensitively explores his own childhood. When Valter, a boy with great imagination, describes the exciting things he sees so vividly, he is punished for lying, so he learns to write his stories down instead. He willingly leaves school and helps support his family by working in lumber camps and a glass factory. His father’s ill health and death bring even harder times. Through all his toil, he debates whether to honor his father’s wish and remain in Sweden to support his mother. With gentle irony and a loving knowledge of the landscape, the people, and the larger issue of class struggle, Moberg offers American readers a deeply moving view of the other side of Swedish immigration.

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