Carole Lexa Schaefer Books

Carole Lexa Schaefer crafts stories for children, drawing deeply from her experience with young learners and her own family heritage. Her writing blends a poet's lyrical touch with a journalist's keen observation, resulting in narratives that are both evocative and precise. Schaefer aims to create books that offer young readers sheer delight while subtly encouraging appreciation for differences and the joy of shared experiences.

Chicken Talk Around the World
32 pages
2 hours of reading
Explore world languages and different cultures as we see--and hear--grandmothers' chickens in the United States, Mexico, Kenya, Japan, India, and France, in this delightful book that introduces children to cultural diversity.Kid-friendly text full of onomatopoeia and simple international vocabulary makes Chicken Talk Around the World a great read-aloud. Bright, charming illustrations show multigenerational families and chickens in different environments, celebrating cultural diversity; as well as universal elements, such as the special relationships grandmothers have with their grandchildren no matter where they live in the world.
4.2
Down in the Woods at Sleepytime
32 pages
2 hours of reading
"Author and illustrator make bedtime about as appealing as it gets." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) It's sleepytime down in the woods, but not one of the baby animals is ready to go to bed. The bear cubs want to play, the little hedgehogs are hungry, the bunnies are peek-a-booing, and their mamas are at their wits' end! Welcome to a delightful woodland world full of tots of all types eluding bedtime — until wise Grandma Owl affirms with a story that the time is just right to say good night.

Chicken Talk Around the World

Down in the Woods at Sleepytime