Download or read book Willow and the Snow Day Dance written by Denise Brennan-Nelson and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Larch is not a very neighborly neighbor. He never has any visitors. His gray, gloomy house never has any decorations. He avoids everyone and everyone avoids him. But now Mr. Larch has a new neighbor. Willow and her family have moved into the bright yellow house directly across the street. Willow loves her new house and neighborhood. She loves the summer and planting her garden. She loves the fall and sharing vegetables with her neighbors. And when winter arrives, she loves that, too. She can't wait for the first snowfall because she has found the perfect hill for sledding. And it's right behind Mr. Larch's house. Can Willow melt his cold heart in time to enjoy a Snow Day? Denise Brennan-Nelson's books with Sleeping Bear Press include the Likes to Say series, Someday Is Not a Day of the Week, and Buzzy the bumblebee. As a national speaker, she travels the country sharing her reading and writing enthusiasm with schoolchildren and teachers. Denise lives in Howell, Michigan. Cyd Moore studied graphic design and fine arts at the University of Georgia. Her work includes posters, billboards, books, and newspaper and magazine articles. In addition to Willow, Cyd is the illustrator of more than 35 books, including the Stinky Face series. She lives in Commerce, Michigan.

Download or read book Willow and Twig written by Jean Little and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2001 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Willow lives with her four-year-old brother Twig. They are in the care of their mother, since neither of their fathers have stuck around to raise them. When their mother breaks her parole and takes off, they are left in the care of Maisie. Unfortunately Maisie suddenly dies, and the two find themselves alone in the city. With no one left to look after them in the city where they were born, they are sent to live with Willow's grandmother, a writer, in her house called Stonecrop. From the rough streets of Vancouver, the children must adjust to a rural setting in Ontario, and the ways of their grandmother. Both heartbreakingly real and honestly inspiring, the story of Willow and Twig reverberates with the realities of growing up alone and unwanted, learning to be proud of who you are and having the courage to find out where it is that you truly belong.

Download or read book Willow and the Wedding written by Denise Brennan-Nelson and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willow is back! This time she's so excited to be flower girl for her favorite uncle and his partner David's wedding. Willow just can't wait to help make it perfect. The beach ceremony! The dinner! The dessert! The dancing! But there's just one hiccup. Uncle Ash refuses to dance these days. A wedding with no dancing?! Willow makes it her mission to remind him of the joy he found in dancing years ago. On the evening of the wedding, Uncle Ash surprises them all and everyone dances in just the ways they were meant to.

Download or read book Willow Finds a Way written by Lana Button and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willow is thrilled the whole class - including her! - is invited to classmate Kristabelle’s fantastic birthday party, until the bossy birthday girl starts crossing guests off the list when they dare cross her. There are many books on bullying, but Willow’s story offers a unique look at how to handle the situation as a bystander.

Download or read book Disney Pixar Bao Little Golden Book Disney Pixar Bao written by RH Disney and published by Golden/Disney. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Little Golden Book is based on the Pixar Animation Studios short film Bao! In Bao, an aging Chinese mom suffering from empty nest syndrome gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life as a lively, giggly dumpling boy. Mom excitedly welcomes this new bundle of joy into her life, but Dumpling starts growing up fast, and Mom comes to the bittersweet realization that nothing stays cute and small forever. This beautifully illustrated Little Golden Book retells the short film from Pixar Animation Studios and director Domee Shi, which explores the ups and downs of the parent-child relationship through the rich, colorful lens of the Chinese immigrant community in Canada.

Download or read book Willow written by Denise Brennan-Nelson and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Hawthorn's room is neat and tidy, not a pencil or paintbrush is out of place. And that's how she likes it. And she likes trees that are colored green and apples that are painted red. Miss Hawthorn does not like things to be different or out of the ordinary. Into Miss Hawthorn's classroom comes young Willow. She doesn't color inside the lines, she breaks crayons, and she sees pink trees and blue apples. What will Miss Hawthorn think? Magical things can happen when your imagination is allowed to run wild, and for Miss Hawthorn the notion of what is art and what is possible is forever changed.Willow is the first joint writing effort for sisters Denise Brennan-Nelson and Rosemarie Brennan. Denise's other Sleeping Bear Press books include Someday Is Not a Day of the Week and My Grandma Likes to Say. She lives in Howell, Michigan. Rosemarie Brennan juggles careers as a writing teacher and an author. She lives in Brighton, Michigan. Cyd Moore studied graphic design and fine arts at the University of Georgia. Her work includes posters, billboards, books, newspaper and magazine articles, and cassette and CD covers. She is the illustrator of I Love You, Stinky Face and I Miss You, Stinky Face. She lives in Commerce, Michigan.

Download or read book The Willow Pattern Story written by Allan Drummond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan Drummond's classic tale unlocks the intriguing story that hides deep within one of the most distinctive and iconic china patterns ever created: the willow pattern.

Download or read book Shy Willow written by Cat Min and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willow is shy. VERY shy. Her home is in an abandoned mailbox, and she'd rather stay put. Outside kids scream and soccer balls collide, trees look like monsters, and rain is noisy in a scary kind of way. It's much nicer to stay inside, drawing. But then a young boy drops a letter in Willow's mailbox: it's a note to the moon asking for a special favor. Willow knows that if she doesn't brave the world outside, the letter will never be delivered, and the boy will be heartbroken. Should she try? Can she? Cat Min delivers a breathtakingly illustrated story about shyness, the power of empathy, and what it means to make a friend.

Download or read book The Willow Wren written by Philipp Schott and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The touching and nuanced portrait of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a resourceful German boy. Ludwig is an odd and introverted child, growing up in Hitler’s Germany. While Ludwig’s father, Wilhelm, is a senior Nazi and a true believer, Ludwig escapes the unfolding catastrophe by withdrawing into nature and books. Eventually, when the Allied bombing campaign intensifies, Ludwig is sent to a Hitler Youth camp, where his oddness makes him a target for bullying. As the war turns against Germany, the Hitler Youth camp becomes ever more severe and militaristic, and the atmosphere spirals towards chaos. After the Nazis abandon the camp, Ludwig returns home, and his father is presumed dead. With Ludwig’s mother descending into depression, the 11-year-old bears increasing responsibility for the survival of the family as starvation sets in under Russian occupation. Soon, it will be impossible to leave the Russian zone, so Ludwig decides that he must rally his despondent mother and lead her and his three younger siblings in an escape attempt to the west. Based on a true story, The Willow Wren is a unique, touching exploration of extremism, resilience, and the triumph of the small.

Download or read book Diamond Willow written by Helen Frost and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to me than most people see. Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents' house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But sometimes when it's just you, one mistake can have frightening consequences . . . And when Willow stumbles, it takes a surprising group of friends to help her make things right again. Using diamond-shaped poems inspired by forms found in polished diamond willow sticks, Helen Frost tells the moving story of Willow and her family. Hidden messages within each diamond carry the reader further, into feelings Willow doesn't reveal even to herself. Diamond Willow is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Download or read book The Way of the Willow Branch written by Emery Bernhard and published by Gulliver Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old branch falls from a willow tree and has many adventures before eventually becoming part of a young boy's mobile.

Download or read book Willow s Whispers written by Lana Button and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating picture book about a very soft-spoken little girl's ultimately successful struggle to find her own voice.

Download or read book Like the Willow Tree written by Lois Lowry and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.

Download or read book The Willow Tree written by Hubert Selby and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby is young and black. His life is irrevocably shattered when he and his Hispanic girlfriend Maria are savagely beaten by a vicious street gang. Bobby's bruised and battered body is discovered by Moishe, a concentration camp survivor, and an unlikely friendship begins.

Download or read book Under the Willow written by Patricia Egan and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Jessica Grace, welcome to my life. Jessie is the world's strongest dream-jumper: she just doesn't know it yet. Jessie started dream-jumping when she was only 10 years old, the night tragedy struck and all she wanted to do was escape her world. For as long as Jessie can remember she has been able to tune into other people's emotions. and experience how others are feeling. Jessie can read it in their faces and when she gets a chance, she can deepen the connection by looking into their eyes. I have to tell you a secret though, not all dreams are welcoming, some are nightmares and others? Well, I don't even want to think about. At the age of 19 tragedy strikes, in the form of her best-friend Mikey Jay, and Jessie's life gets turned upside down. In order for Jessie to become who she is meant to be she needs to face the memories, she has tried for most of her preteen to teen years to run away from. The problem with running from your past is your past always catches up to you, no matter how fast you try to run from it. The Shadows of the In-Between, a world between worlds, attempt to trap Jessie in her own nightmares just as they did to Mikey Jay. In order to escape and save her best friend, Jessie must trust in herself and in Otis, a dream-jumper she met at school, who is trying to help her along the way. Little does Jessie know a dream-jumper named Sayer has brought all these new friends into Jessie's life to allow her to rescue him from the In-Between where he has been trapped for years. It was just pure coincidence that Mikey Jay dropped into his dream world and happened to be the key factor in Sayer's plan of getting Jessie ready to become the dream-jumper she is meant to be.

Download or read book Willow and the Wolf written by Elizabeth Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf shifter, Malcolm Burke, lives an ordinary life and that's just the way he likes it. Until Willow Tanner waltzes into his office and into his life. Perky, odd, and human - his new receptionist is definitely not what he's looking for. So why does his wolf so vehemently insist Willow belongs to him? And why does he find it so difficult to resist her sweet kisses? Willow Tanner knows what she wants, and what she wants is the grumpy but deliciously sexy Malcolm Burke. The wolf shifter makes her entire body tingle, and she's not going to let a silly little thing like him being a paranormal stop her from coaxing him into her bed. Determined to prove she's no ordinary human, Willow uses her special abilities to help Mal and his partners at the security firm. But when her curiosity and eagerness to help lands her in trouble, Mal will do whatever it takes to keep her safe.

Download or read book The Web and the Willow written by C H Scarlett and published by Noble Romance Publishing LL. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling with a sleep paralysis and a lifetime of unexplained paranormal events, Willow Graves just wants to find a place to settle down. Lake Serenity seems like the perfect place to begin unraveling the webs spinning from her head. For almost a year, she feels as if she made the right choice, that is, until the locals start turning up dead and a corrupted sheriff is hell-bent on blaming Sterling Walker, one of few people Willow has grown to trust.Suddenly, the real reason as to why the mountain is so different from any other place makes itself known, and Willow's past, and that of the mountain, entangles her within a dangerous web greater than those that haunt her mind.Can Willow survive, or is she even meant to? Just what brought her to the lake to begin with, and who is she really? That's what Willow Graves is about to find out even if it's the last thing she ever learns.