Qin Leng
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A busload of beachgoers spills out onto the sand for a day of fun and frolic. Three siblings begin work on a castle, patting and shaping the sand as the sun arcs over the sky. Time and again, their progress is halted: a windswept hat topples their creation; a toddler ambles through it; the tide creeps close, and then too close. Meeting each demolition with fresh determination, the builders outdo themselves time and again, until the moment arrives...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Abby loves her pink and brown sandals with the lime green trim. She wears them everywhere until one day while swinging high, the sandals flip off Abby's feet and fly away with the birds migrating south for the winter. All winter long even though Abby grows to love her warm and comfy boots, she wonders what her sandals might be up to, and where her boots will go when the weather grows warmer.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A lonely little girl and her grandparent need to fill the run-down apartment in their building. But taking over the quarters above their store will mean major renovations for the new occupants, and none of the potential renters can envision the possibilities of the space--until one special couple shows up. With their ingenuity, the little girl's big heart, and heaps of hard work, the desperate fixer-upper begins to change in lovely and surprising...
5) Shelter
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
"As a big storm approaches, two strangers arrive in the forest. All the animal families, safe in their homes, are worried, unsure of their motives. So they all turn them away when they ask for shelter, and the strangers are left to fend for themselves. But then the fox family is suddenly forced out into the storm, and they must ask these outsiders for help. Will they find it in their hearts to give it? A timeless - and timely - story about generosity,...
6) I am small
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"With beautifully composed watercolor illustrations, Qin Leng recalls her own childhood in this story about a little girl who has always been the smallest: smallest of the family, smallest in school, smallest in a crowd. The girl faces her own set of challenges, but her loving parents and an unexpected visitor might change her perception for good."--
7) New year
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A moving, lovely cri de coeur from a father, whose daughter has moved to another country. The sense of loss and dislocation is countered by acceptance of the child's need to move away, grow up and become herself. This book would have great resonance in the Chinese diaspora--but also in any diaspora. The loss that is entailed in leaving home, while at the same time the recognition of why it is sometimes necessary is beautifully and lovingly portrayed....
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways - but the same in the one way that matters most of all.
One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates talk about what makes their families special. One is raised by a grandmother, and another has two dads. One has many stepsiblings, and another has a new baby...
9) Away
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A gentle tale told entirely through sticky notes between a mother and daughter as the girl's departure for her first summer camp draws near demonstrates how love can be found even in scribbled messages and other unlikely places.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hana has signed up to play the violin at the talent show, even though she's only had three lessons. Her brothers predict disaster. But Hana practices and practices, inspired by her grandfather, or Ojiichan, who played the violin every day when she visited him in Japan. As Hana takes the stage, doubt is all she can hear, until she recalls her grandfather's words of encouragement, and shows the audience how beautiful music can take many forms.
11) Me on the map
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this playful introduction to maps and geography, step by simple step, a young girl shows readers herself on a map of her room, her room on the map of her house, her house on the map of her street--all the way to her country on a map of the world. Once the reader is familiar with the maps, she demonstrates how readers can find their own country, state, and town--all the way back to their room"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Piper's older brother leaves Peek-A-Book Island and Piper refuses to take off his old earmuffs, no matter what. Things are going from bad to worse--until she discovers The Fairy Tree"--
13) Norman, speak!
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a family adopts a dog from a local shelter, they cannot understand why he doesn't respond to commands, until a chance encounter in the dog park reveals that their new dog only understands Chinese.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
From Buddha and Muhammad to King and Mandela, from the discovery of fire to the invention of the World Wide Web, and from Romeo and Juliet to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this is a thorough and thoroughly entertaining compendium of important people and events.
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