Bøger af Margot Theis Raven

A stray dog named Rags befriends a U.S. soldier in Paris, France during WWI. Rags traveled with the troops carrying messages from the front line to the back. His loyalty kept him by his owner's side until Sergeant Donovan died at the base hospital in Chicago.

In 1889 Patty and Mildred Hill, two Kentucky sisters, wrote the words and composed the melody of Good Morning to All for their kindergarten students. They later changed the words and song is today known as the happy birthday song .

As she teaches her granddaughter to sew a traditional sweetgrass basket, a grandmother weaves a story, going back generations to her grandfather's village in faraway Africa. There, as a boy, he learned to make baskets so tightly woven they could hold the rain. Even after being stolen away to a slave ship bound for America, he remembers what he learned and passes these memories on to his children - as they do theirs.

illustrations have appeared in< I> Time, GQ, New Yorker< /I> and < I>Sports Illustrated< /I>Magazines. He has also been awarded two Gold Medals from the Society of Illustrators. This isMike's first children's book. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Mary Ann and daughter Adele.

Raven and Ellison tell the true story of an all-black Little League team formed in 1955 in segregated Charleston, South Carolina, that was not allowed to participate in the Little League World Series.

With sparkling verse matched with bright illustrations, this alphabet/picture book celebrates the Bay State as it educates and entertains younger readers. Older readers can take a tour through the state's history and learn more about such famous sons and daughters as Emily Dickinson, David Thoreau, and John F. Kennedy. Illustrations.