This author discovered the magic of stories in early childhood, accompanied by a yellow duck toy on her reading adventures. Her early reading included nursery rhymes, poetry, and picture books that shaped her imagination. Dreams of animal characters and their escapades eventually inspired her to begin planting her own story seeds. Her works are rooted in the joy of storytelling and sharing narratives with a new generation.
Adelaide loves writing. Bear loves writing. Thankfully, Adelaide and Bear are ready to team up and persuade the entire class, including Mrs Fitz-Pea, that Bears make the best writing buddies. After all, who better to teach you how to fish and forage for new ideas than a bear? This third picture book in Carmen Oliver's Bears Make the Best...
"When a children's orchestra in Cateura, Paraguay, grows to have more students than instruments, music teacher Favio Chavez works with a brilliant local carpenter to create instruments out of garbage from the local landfill"--
It's time for the first science experiment, but nobody can agree on which one to do. But why pick just one when Bear is around? Bears make the best science buddies, and Bear proves it by helping each group use the scientific method for its special experiment. This fourth picture book in Carmen Oliver's Bears Make the Best ... series will bring the excitement of science to a new audience.
Oliver and Lora have created an homage to the ability of words to paint pictures in the imagination more powerful than anything the real world holds.– School Library JournalSnuggle up for a story that’s sure to captivate your senses!There’s a special place deep in the heart of the wilderness where the creatures of the night gather—where everyone wants to go—where the Night Librarian spins a tale of mystery.Fireflies, nighthawks, bats, mice, and brightly colored beetles make themselves comfortable on the forest floor as the Night Librarian transports them into the land of imagination with her silver silken stories. From feasts of tangy berries and salty seeds, to honey comb hives and whisker kisses, to the scent of evergreens, crashing waves of blue oceans, and echoing canyons, Carmen Oliver’s lyrical text and Miren Asiain Lora’s ethereal art is sure to evoke your senses and send you into dreamland to spin stories of your own.
An endearing and humorous picture book about friendship, authority - and reading.
Adelaide and Bear have tackled reading together, and now they are tackling maths. Adelaide stands up for her best friend Bear and his many talents. But will Adelaide be able to convince her teacher to let Bear be her maths buddy?