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Here come the animals! From Rudyard Kipling’s most popular Just-So Stories to Jack London’s “Brown Wolf”, this collection features some of the best-loved animal tales of all time. They include Kipling’s “How the Elephant Got His Trunk”; Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans”; Mark Twain’s “A Dog’s Tale”; Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “The Squirrels That Live in a House”, and more.

Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder—a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs—where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt.

This lovely collection will make little ballerinas dance for joy! Inside, they’ll find eight of the most beautiful ballet stories, including Swan Lake, Coppélia, The Firebird, and of course, that perennial holiday favorite, The Nutcracker. It’s the perfect way to prepare a child for seeing a performance - or to keep the magic going afterward.

Once Upon an Eid is a collection of short stories that showcases the most brilliant Muslim voices writing today, all about the most joyful holiday of the year: Eid! Eid: The short, single-syllable word conjures up a variety of feelings and memories for Muslims.

The baker's dozen of stories in this book will scare you! They may really terrify you!

The first LGBTQA+ anthology for middle-graders featuring stories for every letter of the acronym, including realistic, fantasy, and sci-fi stories by authors like Justina Ireland, Marieke Nijkamp, Alex Gino, and more! A boyband fandom becomes a conduit to coming out. A former bully becomes a...

From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes another middle-grade short story collection--this one focused on exploring acts of bravery--featuring some of the best own-voices children's authors, including R. J. Palacio (Wonder), Rita Williams-Garcia...

Celebrate the joys of Black boyhood with stories from seventeen bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors--including Jason Reynolds (the Track series), Jerry Craft (New Kid), and Kwame Mbalia (the Tristan Strong series)! Black boy joy is… Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit...

Paddington Bear has a magical moment, the animals of Brambly Hedge are struggling at the dusty mill. Lara’s godmother sorts out a noisy lion, and Rapunzel is rescued from the tower.

Bloomsbury presents The Book of Hopes by Katherine Rundell, read by Stephen Fry, Katherine Rundell, Helena Bonham Carter and Ben Bailey Smith. _______________ Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year _______________ In difficult times, what children really need is hope. And in that spirit...

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology—written by the best children’s authors—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. In a partnership with We Need Diverse Books, industry giants Kwame Alexander, Soman...

A collection of 11 new short stories and six new poems by Ireland's top children's writers, edited by Laureate na nOg Eoin Colfer. Each of the stories and poems is based around the theme of place, being set or inspired by a particular location within Ireland.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes an inspiring middle-grade anthology that follows the loosely interconnected lives of multigenerational immigrant families, the residents at the Entrada apartment building. Edited by...

A spooktacular collection of scary stories by thirteen of the most exciting and diverse authors in children’s books today! Perfect for readers aged 9-12 A spooktacular collection of horror stories that will chill, thrill and delight middle-great readers, keeping them on the edge of (or hiding...

A coleção Contos Clássicos Era Uma Vez traz as mais populares histórias da literatura infantil. A cada volume, uma narrativa diferente é apresentada de forma simples e encantadora para os pequenos leitores.

Paddington Bear tries to buy a birthday present, the animals of Brambly Hedge set off to the seaside. A greedy queen insists on having the biggest tree in the world, but will Cinderella get to go to the ball? 

The Banks family are searching for a nanny. Macaw the parrot helps out at the fish and chip shop and a stonecutter dreams of becoming an emperor.

A vida e sua relação intrínseca e magnífica com o tempo: este é o mote desse livro de contos do premiado escritor Dilan Camargo. O amanhã, o hoje e o ontem entrelaçados numa composição literária convidativa e profundamente reflexiva. Aquilo que fomos, quem somos agora e todas as possibilidades e problemas que nosso porvir há de trazer. Com narrativas e personagens que exploram dramas e situações do passado, do presente e do futuro de modo surpreendente o autor nos brinda com um tipo diferente de viagem no tempo para que o jovem leitor possa sentir e refletir sobre tudo o que foi, é e o que pode ser.

Esta é a história de Luiza, uma menina muito curiosa que questiona se o relógio tem vontade própria e o poder de apressar ou atrasar as horas. Quem já não pensou em ter esse poder? Mas será que ela precisa mesmo se preocupar tanto com a passagem do tempo? Ou é melhor esquecer o relógio e aproveitar a infância em toda sua plenitude? Uma divertida história sobre aquela sensação de que quando estamos fazendo algo prazeroso as horas parecem voar, mas nos momentos que consideramos chatos o relógio parece mesmo parar e nos desafiar.

O conto As Cocadas, publicado pela primeira vez em O Tesouro da Casa Velha, um dos últimos trabalhos de Cora Coralina, ganha nesta edição as cores, os traços, as ilustrações tão sintonizadas com a infância do artista Alê Abreu. A narrativa em primeira pessoa, curta, direta e, ao mesmo tempo, detalhista no que é preciso – qualidades de quem conta mesmo um conto – envolve a criança, desafia sua curiosidade a cada linha, desperta o desejo de descobrir a resolução do conflito vivido pela personagem: Eu devia ter nesse tempo dez anos. Era menina prestimosa e trabalhadeira à moda do tempo.