Jocelyn, Marthe

Despite her mother's edict against pets in the apartment, eleven-year-old Billie is unable to resist a homeless puppy and enlists the help of her scientific friend Jody in making the little dog invisible.

Contains fourteen stories by North American authors that look at various "firsts" in the lives of the characters, such as first kiss, first job, and first night alone.

Presents a colorful children's ABC book for early readers written in English, Spanish, and French.

Hannah can never decide which of her beautiful dresses she should wear, and on her birthday she tries wearing them all at once.

Colorful images portray opposites such as over and under, big and small, inside and outside, and others.

In 1884, after being sold as a servant by her parents to a harsh school mistress, tiny twelve-year-old Josephine, who stands less than twenty-nine inches tall, finds refuge in the Museum of Earthly Astonishments in New York City.

Examines the system established to care for abandoned babies in England in the eighteenth century due primarily to the efforts of humanitarian Thomas Coram, and looks at the lives of orphaned children in the foundling hospitals and foster homes.

Colorful illustrations and simple text identify things that are the same.

Depicts three children's summer vacation at their family's cabin and celebrates the moments by the lake that make memories.

Rhyming text guides the reader through the book's illustrations, spotlighting things that come in ones and twos on each page.