Peter Sís
Author
Series
Madlenka books volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Madlenka plays soccer in her city neighborhood--with the mailbox, a dog, a parking meter, and some cats. Includes facts about the game, and translations for the word "soccer" in various languages.
2) Madlenka
Author
Series
Madlenka books volume 1
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.
Author
Series
Madlenka books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Take a tour around Madlenka's city block and find all of her imaginary dogs.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia--a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter Sís dramatizes Winton's story in this distinctive and deeply personal picture book. He intertwines Nicky's...
6) Robinson
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Robin and his friends are planning to dress up as pirates for their school's annual costume party, but instead his mother creates a Robinson Crusoe costume for him, and while the adults love it, his friends are less welcoming.
8) Dinosaur!
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While taking a bath, a young boy is joined by all sorts of dinosaurs.
11) Ice cream summer
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.
12) The dreamer
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
13) The whipping boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.