A delightful children’s picturebook which tells the story of a young girl and her family as they learn and work together on their farm. Her mother teaches her at home along with her three brothers and her baby sister. The story is illustrated with beautiful watercolor paintings. Every page is in full color.
Signora Da Vinci
Caterina was fifteen years old in 1452 when she bore an illegitimate child in the tiny village of Vinci. His name was Leonardo, and he was destined to change the world forever.
Caterina suffered much cruelty as an unmarried mother and had no recourse when her boy was taken away from her. But no one knew the secrets of her own childhood, nor could ever have imagined the dangerous and heretical scheme she would devise to protect and watch over her remarkable son. This is her story.
Henry and Mudge and the Funny Lunch
Ramona and Her Mother (Ramona Quimby #5)
But with her parents’ unsettling quarrels and some spelling trouble at school, Ramona wonders if growing up is all it’s cracked up to be. No matter what, she’ll always be her mother’s little girl…right? This warm-hearted story of a mother’s love for her spirited young daughter is told beautifully by Newbery Medal winning author Beverly Cleary.
Just Like Mama
On Mother’s Lap
Mama’s Bank Account
George Washington’s Mother
Journey Inward
JOURNEY INWARD is the 1982 autobiography of Jean Craighead George, author of around 100 books (almost all for children and young adults, and almost all related to science and nature), including the Newbery Medal winner, JULIE OF THE WOLVES, and the Newbery Honor winner, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. This book basically covers from the period of newly wed Jean writing her first book (published in 1948) until the time JOURNEY INWARD was published, with a few flashbacks to her childhood and earlier adulthood.
The book chronicles Jean’s struggle to make a living, stay true to her artistic integrity in her writing, and raise three children in the turbulent era of the 1960’s (none of these an easy feat for a single woman, especially in that time period).
