Enter the magical world of impossible creatures and the humans (and semi-humans) who protect them. Mal is a small girl who can fly when the wind blows. Christopher is a young boy about to discover that his amazing ability to attract animals is a sign of his true potential. Together they must save the world from a deadly enemy draining the life energy out of their world.
A fantasy graphic novel about a girl and a sea monster who form an unlikely bond, helping one another learn to trust again. Guest reviewed by Nancy Richards.
What do you do with a problem? Do you ignore it, do you shoo it away or hide from it? A beautifully simple book about facing problems and finding their gifts. When a little boy is filled with anxiety about an unnamed problem following him around, he struggles to think what he can do.
Sebastian is shy. When people talk to him, he freezes up, even thought he has lots to say and plenty to share. When the barber cuts his hair like a billiard ball, Sebastian thinks of what he’d liked to say but all he says is ‘fine.’ Oh don’t we all know a Sebastian?
A little girl grows up with huge excitement about learning to read. When she gets to grade 1 though, she is puzzled that the other children move on to bigger readers while she stays stuck on the beginning. With undiagnosed dyslexia her early school years are tough and challenging. It’s not until Grade 5 that a special teacher changes her life.
“In an old house in Paris all covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. In two straight lines they broke their bread and brushed their teeth and went to bed …” So begins one of the great classic children’s books written by author and artist Ludwig Bemelmans in 1939.
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