Oskar And The Eight Blessings

Author : Richard Simon
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596439491
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oskar and the Eight Blessings written by Richard Simon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both the seventh day of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve, 1938. As Oskar walks the length of Manhattan, from the Battery to his new home in the north of the city, he passes experiences the city's many holiday sights, and encounters it various residents. Each offers Oskar a small act of kindness, welcoming him to the city and helping him on his way to a new life in the new world. This is a heartwarming, timeless picture book.

Author : Tanya Simon
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1626725586
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oskar and the Eight Blessings written by Tanya Simon and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both the seventh day of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve, 1938. As Oskar walks the length of Manhattan, from the Battery to his new home in the north of the city, he passes experiences the city's many holiday sights, and encounters it various residents. Each offers Oskar a small act of kindness, welcoming him to the city and helping him on his way to a new life in the new world. This is a heartwarming, timeless picture book.

Author : Jan Brett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399546146
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animals' Santa written by Jan Brett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modern Christmas classic highlights how animals are just as curious as kids about their own Santa. When Big Snowshoe tells Little Snow that the animals’ Santa is coming with presents for everyone, Little Snow wants to know who he is. The animals say they have never seen him. Maybe he’s a badger, a moose, a polar bear, or a wolf, they tell him. But this spunky little rabbit thinks they are just fooling him. On Christmas Eve, Big Snowshoe finds a way to see the animals' Santa and a Snowy Owl in a red cap swoops down with a pack full of presents. Never again will an excited Little Snow doubt that there is an animals' Santa. Jan Brett's love of animals, winter, and all things Christmas is on grand display in this original holiday story.

Author : T. R. Simon
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763699632
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground written by T. R. Simon and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood adventures explores the idea of collective memory and the lingering effects of slavery. “History ain’t in a book, especially when it comes to folks like us. History is in the lives we lived and the stories we tell each other about those lives.” When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they’ve uncovered a big secret. But Mr. Polk’s silence is just one piece of a larger puzzle that stretches back half a century to the tragic story of an enslaved girl named Lucia. As Zora’s curiosity leads a reluctant Carrie deeper into the mystery, the story unfolds through alternating narratives. Lucia’s struggle for freedom resonates through the years, threatening the future of America’s first incorporated black township — the hometown of author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960). In a riveting coming-of-age tale, award-winning author T. R. Simon champions the strength of a people to stand up for justice.

Author : Angela Burke Kunkel
Publisher : Random House Studio
ISBN 13 : 1984892630
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digging for Words written by Angela Burke Kunkel and published by Random House Studio. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous and inspiring picture book based on the life of José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector in Bogotá, Colombia who started a library with a single discarded book found on his route. In the city of Bogata, in the barrio of La Nueva Gloria, there live two Joses. One is a boy who dreams of Saturdays-- that's the day he gets to visit Paradise, the library. The second Jose is a garbage collector. From dusk until dawn, he scans the sidewalks as he drives, squinting in the dim light, searching household trash for hidden treasure . . . books! Some are stacked in neat piles, as if waiting for José́. Others take a bit more digging. Ever since he found his first book, Anna Karenina, years earlier, he's been collecting books--thick ones and thin ones, worn ones and almost new ones-- to add to the collection in his home. And on Saturdays, kids like little Jose run to the steps of Paradise to discover a world filled with books and wonder. With an evocative text by a debut author, and rich, stunning illustrations from an up-and-coming Colombian illustrator, here is a celebration of perseverance, community, and the power of books.

Author : Victoria Bond
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763643009
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zora and Me written by Victoria Bond and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston finds the imaginative future author telling fantastical stories about a mythical evil creature until a racially charged murder threatens to shatter the peace in her turn-of-the-century Southern community. A first novel.

Author : Chalaine Kilduff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781953177933
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sit. Stay. Love written by Chalaine Kilduff and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 006052636X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas in the Barn written by Margaret Wise Brown and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What child is this Who is born here Where the oxen Stomp and peer . . . When Christmas in the Barn was first published in 1952, it demonstrated all of Margaret Wise Brown's mastery at skillfully fashioning a truly childlike interpretation of the Nativity story. For this larger, full-color edition, Caldecott Honor artist Diane Goode has created a new tableau of visitors to the barn that will delight generations of new readers.

Author : Arthur A. Levine
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536233269
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hanukkah Magic of Nate Gadol written by Arthur A. Levine and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an imaginative team come a new larger-than-life holiday hero who brings Hanukkah wonder and generosity to anyone in need! Nate Gadol is a great big spirit with eyes as shiny as golden coins and a smile that is lantern bright. He can make anything last as long as it is needed, like a tiny bit of oil that must stretch for eight nights, a flower that needs to stay fresh to cheer up someone ailing, or a small lump of chocolate that grows to allow the Glasers to treat their children over the holiday and, during a harsh winter when medicine is needed more than sweets, spurs them to share what little they have with the O'Malleys. In this charming holiday hybrid story, well-known children's author and editor Arthur A. Levine pairs with award-winning illustrator Kevin Hawkes to offer a mythical, magical take on the way Jewish families came to give and receive gifts over Hanukkah, just as their Christian neighbors do at Christmas, thanks to a loving spirit named Nate Gadol working behind the scenes--together with a certain jolly old soul.

Author : Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0761189661
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is Me written by Jamie Lee Curtis and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell comes a timely picture book about immigration. Raising important identity issues like “Where did we come from?” and “Who are we?” This Is Me is as delightful as it is important, sure to stimulate dinner table conversation. In This Is Me a teacher tells her class about her great-grandmother’s dislocating journey from home to a new country with nothing but a small suitcase to bring along. And she asks: What would you pack? What are the things you love best? What says “This is me!” With its lively, rhyming language and endearing illustrations, it’s a book to read again and again, imagining the lives of the different characters, finding new details in the art, thinking about what it would be like to move someplace completely different.