Harold the squirrel is living the life in New York City, feasting on nuts from a kind old man in the park. The old man never feeds, the rats, though.
In this latest installment of the ever-popular series, Jack and Annie go to New Orleans on All Saint's Day in 1915 to find a young musician named Louis Armstrong. Music, mystery and ghosts combine for another riveting quest for the sibling adventurers.
Dogs come in many shapes and sizes and with a variety of attitudes - all evident in inspired drawings and limited text. Join the canine walk presented with verve and humor - with a twist of tale (or maybe tail!) at the end.
It can be scary being very little especially if you're a small mouse with a big list of concerns. Droll humor is used to great effect in both text and illustration as the tiny rodent documents his worries.
Thousands of undocumented immigrants yearly scramble across the U.S.-Mexican border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway. Many do not make it out alive.
Tired of the togetherness of his large family, Sunny (a meerkat) sets off to visit his mongoose relations who live far away from the Kalahari Desert. Sunny chronicles his journey on postcards until he returns home and foils a hungry hyena.
Bone confronts illegitimacy, poverty, the troubled marriage of her mother and stepfather, and the stigma of being considered "white trash" as she comes of age in South Carolina.
LaLa learns the stories of her Awful Grandmother and weaves them into a colorful family history. The "caramelo," a striped shawl begun by her Great-Grandmother, symbolizes their traditions.
The people of Nollop are good citizens, but as the use of more and more letters in the alphabet is outlawed, how will its residents communicate?
Oskar Schell, a gifted 9-year old, explores the mystery of his father's death during the 9/11 attack.