Sophie Blackall

The Benevento children are excitedly preparing for the annual Boar Hunt, where the prize of the Golden Tusk is given to the ten-year old who catches the boar. No girl has ever competed, but Rosa is determined to take part and win!

A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.

Four families, in four different cities, over four centuries, make the same delicious dessert: blackberry fool. This richly detailed book ingeniously shows how food, technology, and even families have changed throughout American history. In 1710, a girl and her mother in Lyme, England, prepare a blackberry fool, picking wild blackberries and beating cream from their cow with a bundle of twigs. The same dessert is prepared by an enslaved girl and her mother in 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina; by a mother and daughter in 1910 in Boston; and finally by a boy and his father in present-day San Diego. Includes a recipe for Blackberry Fool.

Meet Jumpy Jack, a very nervous snail who’s afraid of monsters, and Googily, who is a—well—who is a very good friend, indeed. Wherever they go. Googily kindly checks high and low just to make sure there are no scary monsters about. But as every child knows, monsters come in many shapes and sizes. Some are even blue with hairy eyebrows and pointy teeth.

When a boy is FINALLY allowed to get a cat, he has no doubts about which one to bring home from the shelter. But Max the cat isn’t quite what the family expected. He shuns the toy mouse, couldn’t care less about the hand-knitted sweater, and spends most of his time facing the wall. One by one, the family gives up on Max, but the boy loves his negative cat so much, he’ll do anything to keep him. Even the thing he dreads most: practicing his reading. Which, as it turns out, makes everything positive!

It is very hard to be friends with wild boars because they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered, and rude.

"Missed Connections is a collection of illustrated love stories. There's "We Shared a Bear Suit." "If Not for Your Noisy Tambourine." "Hairy Bearded Swimmer." Each is told in the shorthand of a "missed connection," and then illustrated in Chinese ink and watercolor. The anonymous messages are hopeful and hopeless, funny and sad"--

Persistent young Edward has many questions for his sleepy mother, many of which are answered, "Because it's night time."

After learning that his parents are expecting a baby, a young boy asks several people where babies come from and gets a different answer from each before his parents have a chance to give the right answer. Includes advice on answering questions about reproduction. Sooner or later, every child will ask where babies come from. Join a curious little boy who asks everyone from his babysitter to the mailman, getting all sorts of funny answers.

Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around. Inside, the daily life of a lighthouse keeper and his family unfolds as the keeper boils water for tea, lights the lamp's wick, and writes every detail in his logbook.

Fourteen revolutionary young women, who, through determination and perseverence, sparked change in the world. MOLLY WILLIAMS; MARY ANNING; NELLIE BLY; PURA BELPR ; ANNETTE KELLERMANN; FRIDA KAHLO; EILEEN AND JACQUELINE NEARNE; RUBY BRIDGES; FRANCES MOORE LAPP ; MAE JEMISON; MAYA LIN; ANGELA ZHANG; MALALA YOUSAFZAI.