Peter Sís

A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.

Matt, who loves fire trucks, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a fire truck, with one driver, two ladders, three hoses, and ten boots. Features a gate-fold illustration that opens into a three-page spread.

Gives information about each state, including capital, motto, state tree, state bird, source of name, and date of statehood.

"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...

In a pictorial retelling, Christopher Columbus overcomes a number of obstacles to fulfill his dream of sailing west to find a new route to the Orient.

Fifteen brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.

A biography of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

A collectionof Halloween stories and poems by a variety of authors. Includes recipes and a bibliography.

Brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.