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FIAR V4
Five in a Row was created by Jane Claire Lambert, a successful home-school teacher with more than 17 years experience. Five in a Row provides students with a unit-study approach to early education based on outstanding children's literature. Together, the four volumes of Five in a Row provide lesson plans covering Social Studies, Language, Art, Applied Math, and Science in a way that causes children to fall in love with learning.
FIAR V4 Manual (deluxe)
by Jane Claire Lambert
Albert
by Donna Jo Napoli
The morning begins like any other. Albert reaches out the window to check the weather, but from the moment a twig lands in the palm of his hand, life is never the same. A "Los Angeles Times" Best Book of the Year. Full colour.
Published by: Voyager Books
No. of pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Price: £4.50
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Angelo
by David Macaulay
With expressive illustrations, Macaulay tells the story of how Angelo restores the facade of a once glorious church, and saves a wounded bird in the process.
Published by: Walter Lorraine Books
No. of pages: 48
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.00
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Grass Sandals
by Dawnine Spivak
A simple retelling of the travels of seventeenth-century Japanese poet, Basho, across his island homeland. Includes examples of the haiku verses he composed.
Published by: Atheneum Books
No. of pages: 40
Format: Softcover
Price: £9.00
Gullywasher, The
by Joyce Rossi
Leticia's grandfather, who was a vaquero as a young man, provides fanciful explanations for how he got his wrinkles, white hair, round belly, and stooped frame.
Published by: Rising Moon Books
No. of pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.00
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Hanna's Cold Winter
by Trish Marx
Hanna was a hippopotamus in the Budapest zoo. Hanna and the other hippos thrived in the warm springs which flowed from the ground. One winter, however, it was so cold that the river froze. There was a war going on, and the people and animals were starving. But the people of Budapest made a plan to save their beloved hippos. This heartwarming story, based on a true incident that took place during World War II, is beautifully told by Trish Marx. Barb Knutson's charming illustrations magically evoke the faraway place and time.
Published by: Purple House Press
No. of pages: 32
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.00
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Henry the Castaway
by Helen Taylor
Henry and his dog Angus set out to discover uncharted seas but become marooned on an uninhabited island with a storm approaching.
Published by: Purple House Press
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.00
Mailing May
by Michael O Tunnell
Nowadays it's no big deal or a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a full day's pay. Here is the true story of how May got to visit her grandma, thanks to her won spunk, her father's ingenuity, and the U.S. mail.
Published by: Harper Trophy
No. of pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Price: £4.50
Pumpkin Runner, The
by Marsha Diane Arnold
Inspired by a true event and just in time for fall's pumpkin harvest, a talented team introduces a humble and generous hero as lovable as Forrest Gump who knows that winning isn't always the reason to run a race. Full-colour illustrations in oil.
Published by: Dial Books
No. of pages: 32
Format: Hardback
Price: £11.00
Raft, The
by Jim LaMarche
A flock of birds was moving toward me along the river, hovering over something floating on the water. It drifted downstream, closer and closer, until finally it bumped up against the dock. Though it was covered with leaves and branches, now I could tell that it was a raft. I reached down and pushed some of the leaves aside. Beneath them was a drawing of a rabbit. It looked like those ancient cave paintings I'd seen in books--just outlines, but wild and fast and free. Nicky isn't one bit happy about spending the summer with his grandma in the Wisconsin woods, but them the raft appears and changes everything. As Nicky explores, the raft works a subtle magic, opening up the wonders all around him--the animals of river and woods, his grandmother's humour and wisdom, and his own special talent as an artist.
Published by: Harper Trophy
No. of pages: 40
Format: Paperback
Price: £4.50
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Roxaboxen
by Alice McLerran
Marian called it Roxaboxen. (She always knew the name of everything.) There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill -- nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxes, cactus and greasewood and thorny ocotillo -- but it was a special place: a sparkling world of jewelled homes, streets edged with the whitest stones, and two ice cream shops. Come with us there, where all you need to gallop fast and free is a long stick and a soaring imagination. In glowing desert hues, artist Barbara Cooney has caught the magic of Alice McLerran's treasured land of Roxaboxen -- a place that really was, and, once you've been there, always is.
Published by: Harper Trophy
No. of pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Price: £4.50
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Snowflake Bentley
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
From the time he was a small boy, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera would capture for others the wonder of the tiny crystal. Bentley's enthusiasm for photographing snowflakes was often misunderstood in his time, but his patience and determination revealed two important truths: no two snowflakes are alike; and each one is startlingly beautiful. His story is gracefully told and brought to life in lovely woodcuts, giving children insight into a soul who had not only a scientist's vision and perseverance but a clear passion for the wonders of nature. "Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied." -- Wilson Bentley. SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY won the 1999 Caldecott Medal.
Published by: Houghton Mifflin Company
No. of pages: 32
Format: Hardback
Price: £9.50