Anne F Rockwell

A simple look at cars and their uses.

Follows a little boy during his day at preschool, from cheerful hellos in circle time, to painting colorful pictures and playing at the water table, to passing out paper cups at snacktime.

Little Shark is on his own to find food and live to grow up into a big shark. Includes shark facts.

A child describes his airplane trip to visit his cousins.

A boy and his parents prepare breakfast at their truck stop for drivers of eighteen-wheelers, tankers, moving vans, and other vehicles, while Uncle Marty checks tires and makes repairs.

Describes the habitats of these reptiles which scientists call a "keystone species" because they change the environment for their own use in a way that helps many other plants and animals.

Isabella grows to become a brave, strong, towering woman who speaks out against the evils of slavery and transforms into one of the most powerful voices of the abolitionist movement, helping change the course of a nation.

For Fathers' Day, the students in Mrs. Madoff's class write and illustrate books about their dads.

"What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans? Thousands of futures got a little brighter and a great American art form was born. In 1891, Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins opened his orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina. He soon had hundreds of children and needed a way to support them. Jenkins asked townspeople to donate old band instruments - some of which had last played in the hands of Confederate...

Simple text and illustrations introduce different types of airplanes.