South African children gather to welcome home their fathers who have been away for several months working in the mines.

Smelling, hearing, seeing, touching, tasting - there are so many ways to experience the world! Rachel lsadora's simple, familiar scenes of boys and girls using all five senses, sometimes to humorous effect, is a great way to open up the topic to young readers. Young children will see themselves in the sweet vignettes that explore a wide range of familiar activities throughout the seasons, including playing in the snow, playing at the beach and playing baseball.
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A variation on the song "Old MacDonald", the inhabitants of Old Makimba's farm in Africa, including a baboon, an elephant, and a lion, are described, verse by verse. Includes facts about African animals.

Set in Africa, this version retells the classic tale of a young girl who feels a pea through twenty mattresses and proves she is a real princess.

While Jomar and his brother, Franklin, are on their stoop waiting for Grandpa, friends and neighbors come by--whizzing on skates, showing off their new treads, or bouncing a ball. Whether it's W"hassup? "or Y"o!, " Jo's got a greeting for everyone--until Grandpa arrives and only classic words will do: "I love you." With a fresh new style, Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Rachel Isadora fashions an exuberant intergenerational celebration of language, neighborhoods, and family.
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Illustrations and rhyming text evoke the rhythms of jazz music.

Ben wants to be a trumpeter, but plays only an imaginary instrument until one of the musicians in a neighborhood night club discovers his ambition.

Kofi can't sleep in his new home in the United States, so his older sister Abena soothes his fears about life in a different country by telling him two folktales from their native Ghana about the nature of wisdom and perseverance.

A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened.