Steve Johnson

Introduces the life of renowned children's author and illustrator Ted Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Angelou's poem celebrates the promise of peace in the holiday season. In this simple story, a family joins with their community--rich and poor, black and white, Muslim and Jew--to celebrate the holidays.

After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.

The growing to maturity of an Austrian deer. The Prince of the Forest Bambi's life in the woods begins happily. There are forest animals to play with -- Friend Hare, the chattery squirrel, the noisy screech owl, and Bambi's twin cousins, frail Gobo and beautiful Faline. But winter comes, and Bambi learns that the woods hold danger -- and things he doesn't understand. The first snowfall makes food hard to find. Bambi's father, a handsome stag, roams...

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a family of bears from one spring to the next. Includes facts about bears.

"A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day"--

Traces the journey of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, describes his background as a wealthy student to becoming one of history's leading advocates for the poor, and discusses his battle with polio, his rise to the presidency, and his New Deal achievements.

A young Native American girl who considers her family's wood-burning stove to be the heart of her home in the Turtle Mountains must adapt when it is replaced.

Tells of the heroic deeds of the legendary New York firefighter, Mose Humphreys.

A simple retelling of the birth of Jesus with emphasis on the quiet time before the arrival of the shepherds, angels, and kings.