Gabi Swiatkowska

After the sight of a night sky filled with stars makes eight-year-old Uma feel very small, she asks people how they think about infinity and gets a variety of answers before realizing the comfort in knowing that some things go on forever.

"A lyrical biography of Mary Cassatt, the free-spirited Impressionist painter"--

Based on the true story of a bird of prey's survival after being struck by a poacher's arrow.

Grandpa explains that the golden rule is a simple statement on how to live that can be practiced by people of all ages and faiths, then helps his grandson figure out how to apply the rule to his own life.

Illustrations and rhythmic text describe the delights of a summer evening. A poetic interpretation of the summer evenings of childhood: Lovely the lateness in summertime darkening. Dinner is over. The grownups are talking. Seizing their moment, the children steal away from the dinner table to play out of doors, until it's too dark to see the ball and their mothers call them home. Finely wrought oil paintings, beguiling and dreamlike in their detail,...

Although she really would have liked a jump rope for her birthday, Yoon is happy to receive a Korean picture book and a jade bracelet passed down from her grandmother, and when she wears the bracelet to school it seems as if her wish for a jump rope and a friend is about to come true.

Alice's parents get her a parrot for her birthday.

While waiting for it to be born, a young child wonders what its new sibling will be like.