A cooking story for young and old (Includes an original Recipe for Lemon Bar Cake) Pop Pop and Me and A Recipe is a delicious blend of cooking and caring. Pop Pop and Me and A Recipe celebrates the love between a grandson and his grandfather. Join Pop Pop and his grandson as they beat, batter and bond baking the young boy’s favorite Lemon Bar Cake. With full color lovingly painted step by step instructions and a full ingredient list this book is...

When your parents are out of town for the day, you make plans with Grandma, or Maw-Maw as it's known in the South. Although she is the adult, sometimes it feels like you're the babysitter because she is silly and does all the childlike things with you. Hopefully, you can keep her entertained all day because that's part of the job.

An exquisitely detailed portrayal of settlement Australia in the 1800s, Black McIntosh to Gold spans a century as it traces a family's migration from a fishing village in the far north of Scotland to the goldfields of New South Wales. One after another, members of the McIntosh clan are called to make the journey into unknown territory where dreams of happy families, workable land and perhaps even gold await. Steeped in research and laced with the...

In this first-person narrative a young girl explains the structure of her immediate and extended family. Vibrant photographs correlate to the text as information is presented to the reader in a very accessible manner. A picture-word glossary is included. This nonfiction title is paired with the fiction title Who Are the Millers?

Grandfather Knows. about the Sun, is an exciting opportunity to expand on your childs curiosity about the world around them in an entertaining way. The value of knowledge gained and shared by older family members, such as Grandfather, shows the respect children should have and reflect as they grow. The inspiration and main character, Grandfather, was based on John Noga, a great story teller to his grandchildren who loved and admired him. His granddaughter,...

Atrapando Mariposas es una historia para niños. Es una historia de inocencia, amor y pertenencia. Lo más importante, proporciona al lector sentimientos de ternura. Expresa cuán agradecida puede estar una persona por haber pasado tiempo con un ser querido. Catching Butterflies is a children's story. It is a tale of innocence, love, and belonging. Most importantly, it provides the reader with feelings of tenderness. It expresses how grateful...

The Choices We Make was inspired by my younger cousins, it's letting them know to love the skin that they were born in. It's also about getting to know someone for the heart that's on the inside. It's not about looking at the color of their skin that is on the outside. It's about knowing what color is and really seeing it. But choosing to be friends with someone because of their character and not judging them because of their skin color, not letting...

One day Isabel finds a box in her mother's closet and, inside, a photograph of a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes. Ten-year-old Bel is enchanted to discover that the girl is her great-grandmother Beatrice, her Bisa Bea, and that she and her great-grandmother look very much alike. Bel convinces her mother to let her borrow the treasured photo promising to look after it carefully. To her dismay, by the time she returns home from school, the picture...

The moment Ellie and her father pull up in front of her Grandmother Acklebee's farm in Weybolt, Saskatchewan, Ellie knows the place doesn't want her. And it's the last place she wants to be! But Ellie has no choice. Her father was laid off from the mill in Moose Jaw, and he's been taken on by the Marvelous Cookware Company as a salesman, a job that will take him clear across the province and back. The road is no place for a nine-year-old, but leaving...

In poems that range from the minimalist to the theatrical, Jane Simpson evokes the fascinatingly unfamiliar world of the Arabian Peninsula, where she found her preconceptions about Muslim women completely shattered. She writes of home and family with great tenderness. Choked forms wonderfully match the sensations of grief. In a synthesis of home and abroad, science and art, the poems reveal a compassionate, searching gaze in a world without maps.