Anna Grossnickle Hines

Rich, luminous fabrics. Eleven miles of thread. An uncountable number of stitches. Clear, sparkling words. With these ingredients Anna Grossnickle Hines celebrates the lights that brighten the darkest season of our year. In poems and quilts she captures each heartening glow and flicker, from the moon and aurora borealis to the holiday lights of Santa Lucia, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Chinese New Year to one lone candle and a hidden flashlight...

Unhappy to be the only one in his house without Christmas secrets, Joshua is relieved when Grandma comes and helps him have some secrets of his own.

A child learns to count with the help of a classic nursery rhyme.

A child proudly shows off her very own brand new big bed while also telling herself that she can deal with fears about sleeping in it for the first time.

Donnie and Gramma, who is in a wheelchair, take an imagined walk to the seashore and smell the salty breeze, walk barefoot on the warm sand, observe animals, and build a sand castle.

Describes how a group of firefighters use a helicopter to help put out a forest fire.

A mouse tries on many kinds of hats and becomes a firefighter, gardener, chef, teaparty hostess, and space traveler.

After accidentally ruining his friend's soccer game, Curious George enrolls in a soccer camp where he learns about the rules of the game and makes some mischief for the team.

Curious George and his friends introduce vocabulary words along with example sentences and illustrations of their meanings.