Product Description: A whimsical rhyming tale set in a fairy world. The king has set forth an invitation to the fairies: come to the ball! And everyone is in a delightful tizzy, searching for their top hats, their boots, and their crowns—and where-oh-where are those spider-web gowns? The fairies finally arrive, towed by swans, rowed by fish...read more

Product Description: Two poetry masters create a slice of American life, in renga form. This portrait of a day in the life of an American village is told in an ancient poetic form known as the renga (meaning ''linked verse''), in which one poet writes a verse and another poet responds to that...read more

Offers the story of the delegate from Delaware who, having received news that the congress was about to have their vote regarding American independence, raced to Philadelphia to do his duty--and change the course of history in the process.

Product Description: First published in 1955, this widely acclaimed novel by Newbery Award-winning author Elizabeth Yates tells the inspiring true story of a young Quaker teacher name Prudence Crandall. The year is 1833, and Prudence Crandall opens a school for African American women in her town of Canterbury, Connecticut...read more

After buying, wrapping, and storing in a chest the Christmas gifts for her large family, an Italian grandmother discovers others more in need

The fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish