Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels.This night is just a blanket that helps the earth to sleep.' The little rounded figures, children and animals, stand within a comforting world, whether it's dark or 'the morning in the light of the sun.' The fluffy sheep, the cotton-cozy moon and the bunnies and kittens fill up a world the youngest listener can easily and restfully imagine.Choose your shipping method in Checkout. It's after a few pages that this one takes off into something memorable, an idea for a wee mind to cling to. There is always room for one more good lullaby. The drought-conveying orange colors of the pictures are, finally, succeeded by the greens and yellows of the new tree, as baby Lucia and Mama and Papa return to greet his tree, and all are filled with hope.īy Mike Jolley, illustrated by Mique Mariuchi His uncle tells him, 'You must have hope to plant a tree,' and Facile builds a little stone wall to protect the seedling. Against the tense background of his parents taking the weakening baby to a doctor in the city, we watch Facile plant and replant a seed as goats, fire and a relentless heat defeat his efforts. This story isn't set in a suburban back yard, however Facile lives in Haiti's mountains.

By making clear that even the most recent ideas aren't necessarily the final ones, Kudlinski saves some growing space for young scientists.īy Karen Lynn Williams, illustrated by Linda Saportįacile, a little Haitian boy, wants a special gift for his new baby sister, Lucia: a tree, just like the one Papa planted for him. Contemporary scholarship, for example, no longer thinks of the dinosaurs as descended from lizards, or dully colored, or inattentive parents. Kathleen Kudlinski's book is well positioned to move a reader from young unconditional love to a slightly more scholarly take. And the best thing about dinos? What we think we know about them keeps changing, so there's always more material ahead. Children make their love for dinosaurs visible, all the way from pajamas to a passionate desire for almost any book about them.

Circles of Hope by Karen Lynn Williams