Product Description: Lyrical, poetic text and beautiful artwork celebrate the lives of children in a remote Himalayan village as they make their work into play Our village sits above the great river, nestles in the Himilayan mountains. This is what we do on summer days when school is closed for holiday time, in our village in the sky...read more

It is 1821 and a lonely child spends her days hiding in the Vienna Woods until she spies an old man, a music maker. The man is composing a revolutionary new work, but he fears it will be ridiculed and that people will think he's gone mad. The child sits for hours watching and listening as he revises and plays, and slowly she develops a deep understanding of both the music and the man. Together they give each other the courage to face their critics and dare to be different.

Product Description: In a poor village in northern China, a small boy named Li Cunxin was given the chance of a lifetime. Selected by Chairman Mao's officials from among millions of children to become a dancer, Li's new life began as he left his family behind...read more

With no family and little support from his only ally, Miss Radinski, Ben knows that he will have to venture onto the dangerous streets alone to face the woolvs that no one believes exist.

When a little boy asks what Big Cat and Little Dog and his grandmother dream about, she tells him they dream about when they were young

When she meets the famous Australian astronomer John Tebbutt, Alicia realizes that she is no longer doomed to a life of needlework and milking cows but that her future is as limitless as the stars