A girl in India discovers an ancient step well in this companion book to the creators' much-loved Out of the Way! Out of the Way! When a girl discovers a slab of stone on a weedy patch of land, she calls to her friends, "Look! Look!" The children clear away the weeds and garbage and find more stones. They call their families to come and see and begin to dig around the stones. Word travels to villages nearby, and more and more people join in, u...
Ein Berg - zwei unvergessliche Geschichten
Tensing Norgray und Edmund Hillary - der eine hütet Yaks in Nepal, der andere betreut die Bienenstöcke seines Vaters in Neuseeland. Zwei gänzlich unterschiedliche Leben, und doch ein gemeinsamer Traum. Schon früh entdecken beide ihre Liebe zu den Bergen, machen zahlreiche Touren, schließen sich verschiedenen Gruppen an, kommen immer höher und weiter und scheitern doch an dem einem: dem Chomolungma, d...
When a young girl named Anu has trouble adjusting to her new home and school, she calls upon Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, for help vanquishing the ghosts in her closet.
Get out your umbrellas!Children play, birds call, and grownups go about their business during the hot days of summer in northern India. But in the bustle of street and marketplace, everyone is watching, waiting for those magical clouds to bring their gift of rain to the land. Through the observations of one young girl, the scents and sounds, the dazzling colors, and the breathless anticipation of a parched cityscape are vividly evoked during t...
Inviting and original." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Mohandas Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook and changed the world in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads connected these great activists together in their shared goal of social revolution?A lawyer and activist, tiny of stature with giant ideas, in British-ruled India at the beginning of the 20th century. A minister from Georgia with a thunderous vo...
Notable Selling Points:Uma Krishnaswami has won the APALA Children's Literature Award, the ILA Social Justice Award, the Crossword Book Award, the Scientific American Young Readers Book Award, the Skipping Stones Award, the Paterson Prize and a South Asia Book Award Honor. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award twice - in 2020 and 2021.This book stands out from others about the first ascent of Everest by telling the stor...
Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook, and changed, the world, in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads connected these great activists together in their shared goal of social revolution?A lawyer and activist, tiny of stature with giant ideas, in British-ruled India at the beginning of the 20th century. A minister from Georgia with a thunderous voice and hopes for peace at the height of the civil righ...
Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library next to her apartment building. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety bookstand, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something. Illustrations.
Rose petal milk shakes and a world of surprises awaits Dini when her family moves to India in this spirited novel with Bollywood flair.Eleven-year old Dini loves movies—watching them, reading about them, trying to write her own—especially those oh-so-fabulous Bollywood movies where you don't need to know the language to get what's going on. But when her mother reveals some big news, it does not at all jibe with the script Dini had in mind. Her...
This poetic tale opens when Lina, a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb, is found in a flower by her mother. Because she is so tiny, adventure and mishap easily befall her - a giant frog leaves her stranded on a lily pad, she is freed by curious fish, then pestered by crazy bugs. Lina lives by herself in the depths of a forest and as the cold of winter approaches she begins to feel lonely, until one day Lina finds an injured swallow. She revives ...
Dini is back from IndiaNwith Bollywood star Dolly Singh in tow! But life in the States isn't all rose petal milk shakes in this delicious sequel to Krishnaswami's multiple star-reviewed "The Grand Plan to Fix Everything.
Dini is back from IndiaNwith Bollywood star Dolly Singh in tow! But life in the States isn't all rose petal milk shakes in this delicious sequel to Krishnaswami's multiple star-reviewed "The Grand Plan to Fix Everything.
A young boy spots a baby tree growing in the middle of a dusty path in his village. He carefully places rocks around it as the local mango seller rushes past shouting, "Out of the way! Out of the way!” As the tree grows bigger, people and animals traverse the path until it becomes a lane, flowing like a river around the tree - getting out of its way. Over time, the lane becomes a road, and a young man crossing the road with his children rememb...
Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland.
Moving to a new place is hard enough without finding a bunch of mean, nasty ghosts in the closet. This looks like a job for Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god who can change shape in the blink of an eye and chase goblins and demons away with his thundering voice. When Hanuman answers Anu's plea for help, she rejoices -- until she realizes those pesky ghosts don't seem to be going anywhere. Uma Krishnaswami effortlessly weaves motifs from Indian myt...
