Places and peoples Books

Age range 9 to 12A unique guide to 30 of the world's most beloved cities, including 5 U.S. cities, accompanied by more than 1,000 gorgeous watercolour illustrations, matched by a vibrant writing style.From the rain-soaked streets of London to the...

"This is a well-told and highly informative read. Highly recommended for young adult graphic novel and nonfiction collections." School Library Journal (STARRED review)Winner of the2024 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated Young Adult...

The Year of the Dragon is the most lucky and popular... for good reason! Dominic is an adventurous dragon whose journey celebrates the new year. 2024 is the Year of the Dragon! This revised edition is bilingual in simplified Chinese. Dominic's proud...

This is the second volume of the collection HISTORY FOR KIDS, the ideal collection to learn history while having fun. The text is full of amusing illustrations and visual jokes that help children understand the historical facts that are narrated more...

This is the first volume of the collection HISTORY FOR KIDS, the ideal collection to learn history while having fun. The text is full of amusing illustrations and visual jokes that help children understand the historical facts that are narrated more...

Chinese New Year' s eve is the most important day of the year for the Chinese people. The whole family sits around the table to celebrate the reunion. However, a long time ago, on this day, people were used to running away from their homes and hiding in...

Age range 14+Those who would suppress and destroy you stand not a chance when confronted with the power that lies within these pages...Elliott D'Angelo-Brandt is sick and tired of putting up with it all. Every week, she attends a support group for teen...

This children's book depicts what life on the farm is really like for moms and wives! In "On the Farm With Mama: Harvest Edition," the children watch their hardworking mom go about her day and learn about the priceless value she brings to their family...

A panorama of Christmas traditions around the world, from France to Iran, Egypt to MexicoChristmas traditions differ from culture to culture, location to location, and family to family. In24 Christmas Stories: Faith and Traditions from Around the...

Un divertido y emocionante homenaje a todas las madres, de la mano del bestseller internacional Chris Haughton.Mam Pingina sale a buscar la cena. Salta, nada, escala un resbaladizo acantilado y pasa de puntillas... junto a unas feroces focas dormidas!...

Age range 12 to 17This inspiring introduction to activism and social justice for young teens shows the important role music plays in changing the world, featuring:Musicians young teens will know and love: Beyonc, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X, and...

A remarkable story about a brother and sister's determination to attend school and their inventive solution to get there safely.Features an afterword from Julian Lennon, and notes from co-authors Aaron Friedland and Ndileka Mandela.Every...

Age range 3 to 7Multicultural Day is coming up at school, and Kai is nervous about sharing her family's Chinese food with her classmates. Kai's mother is excited about making special dishes, but Kai doesn't like feeling different from everyone else...

Discover the incredible life and work of an iconic Inuit artist in The Life and Art of Ningiukulu Teevee.Learn about a celebrated Inuit artist! Ningiukulu Teevee is a talented artist from Kinngait, Nunavut. Find out about her incredible body of work, her...

Age range 4 to 8Stuck in your worries? Bright ideas are everywhere! Lexi is all about rules and schedules, so when the first day of school brings unwelcome surprises (like a giant hairball on her favourite new dress), she starts to get anxious. Before...

Age range 3 to 6Yoo-hoo, unicorn! Let's go for a ride!Nothing could be more special than riding a unicorn! Or, at least that's what a plucky adventurer thinks. In the spectacularly illustrated storybook, How to Ride a Unicorn, a curious young explorer is...

Age range 10+This 'heartbreaking...powerful work' (School Library Journal, starred review) introduces the contemporary issue of forced disappearances to readers 10 and up - with 'deceptively simple black line drawings'...

Age range 6 to 8A child makes their way along the Arctic shoreline on a dark day. Everything around them seems as ugly as their mood until the child closes their eyes and breathes. What they once saw as an ugly landscape is now wonderful and vibrant.From...

Age range 7 to 11This multicultural children's book is full of activities, recipes, songs and stories!Brimming with ancient traditions, exciting decorations, and delicious, seasonal foods, Japanese Celebrations for Children will take you on a...

Mandarin/English bilingual flashcards that can be used for playing memory and snap, or as simple learning cards! - Each box contains 42 cards. - Versatile and educational-get the whole family together for endless hours of fun. - Simple and colorful...

The first diverse children's book of its kind, The Book of Cultures is a 120-page book with 30 stories for young readers to discover the world and embrace diverse realities.This perfect bedside book features fictional stories of buddies from...

Discover the wonders of China's rich culture and traditions with this fun-filled story perfect for celebrating Chinese New Year with your littles! For as long as she could remember, Mei Ling wanted a baby brother. She asked and asked, and wished and...

Age range 9 to 12The New Seven Wonders of the World are introduced from the architectural point of view in this fully illustrated title.The Great Wall of China, Petra, The Colosseum, Chichn Itz, Machu Picchu, The Taj Mahal, and Christ the Redeemer were...

Age range 3+One kokeshi, two kokeshi, three kokeshi, four.... Anna is a Japanese-American girl whose grandparents live in Japan. They have been sending her adorable Kokeshi dolls made of painted wood each year for her birthday since she was very small...

Age range 9 to 14A famous woman scientist, war heroine and freedom fighter from the Philippines!This delightful children's book follows the life of Maria Orosa a pioneering woman scientist who studied food science in the United States then...

'It's a wicked cold, the Alaska winter, and can kill a man in a second...'Nearing 15, Zac Greene travels to Alaska to re-connect with the father he's only ever known from a distance. But Zac's dad is a lone wolf a wounded soul who'd rather drown his...

From the author of Pest-a Washington Post Noteworthy Book-comes a hilarious new novel that showcases the author's talents at their best.Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Davies's life is challenging enough. She's short. She's scrawny. She prefers Evernote to...

Age range 12 to 18This young adult mystery horror takes us to a remote borderline village in an intentionally unspecified place and time where people still live by their own rules and still believe in old gods. Twelve years ago, four children suddenly...

Explore the history of real female piratesand learn about their lives on the high seas!Daniela discovers her grandmother's old book with stories of ten brave pirate women. From the seas of China to the shores of New York, from ancient Greece to modern...

A perfect tale to read to curious daughters.To the dreamers. To the ones who love braids.To the ones who prefer to wear their hair down.To the ones who fill their mouths with jelly.To the ones that chat away, even when they're asleep.To the ones who...

Age range 5 to 9A multicultural story of children's dreams of a better world, with stunning illustrations by award winning illustrator Concha Pasamar.Mohesiw's wishes take shape in the jungle where he lives and plays. Amunet smiles as she thinks about...

Age range 6 to 9Greece, the cradle of Western Civilisation, depicted in a novelty format like never before.Thousands of years ago, the first tribes arrived in the Balkan Peninsula, laying the foundations of Europe's oldest civilisation: Greece, which...

Age range 6 to 9A sequel to Encyclopedia of Ordinary Things, which appeared in Wall Street Journal review.We live in our houses, cook in our kitchens, relax in our living rooms. But how did people live before the invention of the bathroom? What was the...

Age range 6 to 9Who brings Christmas presents in Italy?Where can we sunbathe on the beach on Christmas Day?Why do Russians celebrate Christmas in January?Everyone loves Christmas! But have you ever considered that Christmas might be celebrated elsewhere...

Age range 6 to 9From a skyscraper to a houseboat, kids live in all kinds of places. Peek insidetheir dwellings across the globe and see their amazing cultures!Have you ever wondered how kids live in other countries? This book gives you a great...

Age range 6 to 9 Who said ordinariness is boring? This book shows ordinary things, along with their origins and inventors, in a new light. Come explore their secrets!They're all around us. We use them daily, pass them by, and it never occurs to us to...

We have all heard of famous people like Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Cleopatra, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and William Shakespeare. But what do we know about their childhoods? Play a game and guess which celebrity is hidden on each spread. Clues from...

Age range 6 to 9 Take an exciting manga pop-up journey across Japan with Chico and Neko the Cat!Pick up where Tokyo Pop-Up Book left off, as Chico and his mischievous cat Neko visit Japan's most famous landmarks. The chase is on as naughty Neko...

My First Book of Haiku introduces children to inspirational works of poetry and art that speak of our connection to the natural world, and of their own ability to see an entire universe in the tiniest parts of it. It pairs fresh interpretations of 20...

Here, beautifully illustrated and presented in both English and Japanese, are 12 of the best Japanese folktales - shared with generation after generation of Japanese children. These charming tales engage your imagination as you're carried on turtle-back...

Once Upon a Time in Japan presents eight stories from the NHK JapanBroadcasting Corporation's popular radio series of the same name. TheJapanese folk stories in this volume are among Japan's oldest and mostbeloved stories, and all eight tales are...

Age: 8 to 12"This is a story about the art of caring. Its message will speak to the heart of any child who reads it and nourish his or her roots in the process" - Ron Himler, illustrator of Sadako and the Thousand Paper CranesCenturies ago, a Japanese...

Age range 11 to 13An inspiring journey of women's struggles and victories around the globe as they fought for the right to vote.Citizen She! tracks the global fight for women's suffrage from the first pioneers in the eighteenth century to the heroines of...

Due to a rare brain tumor, Vera Garcia's soccer career is suddenly sidelined at the start of her senior year. When her single mother Eliza, terrified at the thought of losing her only daughter, clings too tightly, both Vera's identity and her freedom are...

What if . . . Thanks to a science fair project gone bonkers, you just spent a few days teaching Leonardo da Vinci about gravity and relativity. . . You escaped a bonfire of the vanities-only to come home and find things are not what they were before. . ...

The Haunting of Hill House meets The Lovely Bones in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller following three teen girls solving a past treacherous murder.Nobody believes sixteen-year-old Lila Sadler, who was diagnosed with bipolar...

"A gleefully apocalyptic page-turner . . ." -Kirkus ReviewsMeet Chloe and Elizabeth Yetti: antisocial, semi-homicidal eighteen-year-old twins casually surviving the AI apocalypse.Ten years ago, a powerful machine intelligence unleashed a nanoengineered...

A nine-day canoe trip turns into a profound, life-altering event as Louis discovers the untold stories of Voyageurs and Native Americans in his family's history.This thrilling adventure tells of Louis's family and his Scouting friends. They discover...