"Come on kids, it's read-aloud time"
Put on your pajamas, microwave some popcorn and settle into your favorite chair as the kids surround you in anticipation of another exciting adventure.
They will be fascinated as they
- Shuffle behind Marjan—a crippled Persian girl, as she risks her life to collect stories for Shahrazad, wife of the Sultan, who must tell the Sultan a new story every night, or be killed in the morning.
- Journey across the desert with a talking horse and "his boy" Shasta. Outrun lions and an evil prince in the classic, The Horse and His Boy.
- Follow The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, through dark caverns, forests full of elves, and dragons' lairs bursting with treasure.
- Chase a dog thief from the Himalayan mountains to Calcutta, India with a young Tibetan girl, Momo, in Daughter of the Mountains.
Your children will have a hard time waiting to hear you read these and 15 more enthralling tales to them this year.
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The history of America at sea is imaginatively presented through the travels of Seabird, a carved ivory gull.
A moving and unforgettable story inspired by the true story of an Indian girl who spent 18 years alone on a rocky island far off the coast of California in the early 1800s.
Jiro, son of a starving puppet maker in 18th Century Japan, runs away from home to apprentice himself to the master of the Hanaza puppet theater ... and finds himself in the midst of a Robin Hood intr...
A Chinese boy is separated from his family and is "adopted" by sixty American airmen.
Wolves without and a wicked governess within lead two English girls, Bonnie and Sylvia, to many spine-tingling adventures.
from The Chronicles of Narnia
A talking horse and a servant boy share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
A South African Story
Touching story of a young girl and her brother who set out to find their mother "somewhere" in the city of Johannesburg.
The enchanting story of Bilbo Baggins, a far-wandering hobbit who discovered the One Ring of Power and brought it home.
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A grandmother "explains" Korean games, family relationships and life experiences by reference to Korean folktales.
An award winning story of a young boy who lived in China during the perilous 1920s.
A true-to-life Arabic fairy tale about a poor girl who makes good through hard work, diligence . . . and brains.
Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam
Multiple award-winner. The loving memories of the author's childhood in a Vietnamese hamlet.
And Fourteen More
Award-winning collection of poems presents everyday objects in a thought-provoking new light.
Momo, a young Tibetan girl, chases the man who stole her Lhasa terrier--from high in the Himalayas to the Bengal plains and the city of Calcutta.
Another one of our family's favorites, Shadow Spinner tells a plausible "story behind the story" of Scheherazade, the woman who saved her own life and the lives of all the women of Persia by telling s...