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Only One by Deborah Hopkinson
Category: Picture Books
This lyrical, environmentally focused picture book showcases the unique beauty of our one and only universe--its galaxies, stars, and planets--as well as our one and only Earth and the precious life it contains. Join one girl as she leads her friends to a tree-planting ceremony. Along the way, she expla ...Show more
Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen by Deborah Hopkinson
Category: Children's Educational
This gorgeous picture book biography of one of the most beloved writers of all time pays tribute to an independent thinker who turned ordinary life into extraordinary stories and created a body of work that has delighted and inspired readers for generations. Full color.
Small Places, Close to Home - A Child's Declaration of Rights: Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Deborah Hopkinson; Kate Gardiner (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Non Fiction
The rights of children--and of all living things--begin in small places, close to home.This is a poetic and moving adaptation of U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights in honor of its seventy-fifth anniversary.In backyards and city parks, in school and at home--wherever and however we move through t ...Show more
The Great Trouble : A Mystery of London , the Blue Death , and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
Category: Children's History
Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He's being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. And he's got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a we ...Show more
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
Category: Children's
"A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure." --"Publishers Weekly, "Starred Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He's being hunted by Fish ...Show more
The Story of a Story by Deborah Hopkinson; Hadley Hooper (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Writers young and old know it's hard to create a story of one's own, here's a simple, elegant picture book that might help them find the key. Hint- It involves persistence. A mostly empty page Then another. And still another. There are squiggles. There are doodles. But the words won't come. If you've ...Show more
Under the Bodhi Tree - A Story of the Buddha by Deborah Hopkinson; Kailey Whitman (Illustrator)
Category: Children's
Who was the Buddha? Once upon a time in ancient India, a prince was born. His name was Siddhartha, and one day he would inherit a powerful kingdom. His father tried to protect him from the suffering and hardship beyond the palace walls, but just like children everywhere, the prince longed to see the wo ...Show more
Under the Bodhi Tree: Story ... Buddha by Deborah Hopkinson
Category: Picture Books
Who was the Buddha?Once upon a time in ancient India, a prince was born. His name was Siddhartha, and one day he would inherit a powerful kingdom. His father tried to protect him from the suffering and hardship beyond the palace walls, but just like children everywhere, the prince longed to see the worl ...Show more
We Had to Be Brave - Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport by Deborah Hopkinson
Category: Children's Non Fiction
Through the moving and often heart-wrenching personal accounts of Kindertransport survivors, critically acclaimed and award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson paints the timely and devastating story of how the rise of Hitler and the Nazis tore apart the lives of so many families and what they were forced ...Show more
Who Was Charles Darwin? by Deborah Hopkinson
Category: Children's Non Fiction
As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa ...Show more