Sylvia Cassedy

Forty-three Indic nursery rhymes reflect the child's view of family, fantasy, and nature.

A young lady who makes marzipan considers it too fine for her friends until they contrive a plan to make her see her selfishness.

Twenty-six poems, all of which describe a means of transportation or something that travels, ranging from "Ark" to "Zeppelin."

Eleven-year-old Mary Ella, ashamed that her older brother Morton is a slow learner and longing for a friend of her own, is astonished when the flamboyant new girl on the block picks Morton for a friend.

Thirteen haiku about animals, translated from the Japanese and illustrated with collages and assemblages.

A collection of haiku, a traditional seventeen-syllable form of Japanese verse. Includes original Japanese calligraphy, the transliterated versions, the English translations, and brush and line illustrations.

Being in a new place for Halloween is bad enough, but when Mike has a cold and can't go out in his cat suit, none of the visitors can cheer him up until the last one, who is wearing the best cat suit of all.

Twenty-six alphabetically arranged poems, each describing a room or a place ranging from "Attic" to "Zoo."

Having found a dollhouse full of dolls in the orphanage where she leads an unhappy existence, Lucie creates a secret life for herself.

A guide to writing prose, both fiction and nonfiction, and poetry.

Behind the Attic Wall is a children's novel by Sylvia Cassedy, first published in 1983. At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said — nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving — anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school. Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mistake to bring her here," said Maggie's great-aunts, whose huge stone house looked like another boarding school — or a prison. But they took her in anyway. After all, aside from Uncle Morris, they were Maggie's only living relatives. But from behind the closet door in the great and gloomy house, Maggie hears the faint whisperings, the beckoning voices. And in the forbidding house of her ancestors, Maggie finds magic...the kind that lets her, for the first time, love and be loved.