Búsqueda de Editorial : GROUNDWOOD BOOKS

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  • SIDEWALK FLOWERS
    LAWSON, JONARNO / SMITH, SYDNEY
    In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. "Written" by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to ...
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    $ 77,000.00

  • SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A FOX
    DANIEL, DANIELLE
    In this introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals, young children explain why they identify with different creatures such as a deer, beaver or moose. Delightful illustrations show the children wearing masks representing their chosen animal, while the few lines of text on each page work as a series of simple poems throughout the book.In a brief author?s note, Da...
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    $ 47,000.00

  • FRIEND OR FOE?
    SOBOL, JOHN / TOLSTIKOVA, DASHA
    Each night the mouse gazes up at the cat in the palace tower. Is the cat my friend? he wonders. Determined to find out, he bravely makes his way into the palace through a tiny hole and climbs all the way up to the tower, where the cat sits on the windowsill. ...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • TOKYO DIGS A GARDEN
    LAPPANO, JON ERIK / HATANAKA, KELLEN
    Tokyo vive en una pequeña casa en medio de rascacielos con su familia y su gato. Por años, autopistas y grandes edificaciones han sido construidas en torno a la casa tomando el lugar que alguna vez ocuparon colinas y árboles. ¿Podrá Tokyo y su familia volver a disfrutar del mundo natural otra vez?Un día un anciana ofrece a Tokyo unas semillas que crecerán para convertirse en lo...
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    $ 84,000.00

  • THE MOON INSIDE
    FEDER, SANDRA V.
    Yellow is Ella’s favorite color — she loves the bright, sunny daytime. But every night, as darkness falls, she becomes afraid. When her mother encourages her to look at the soft glow of the moon and fireflies dancing in the night, and to listen to the chirping of crickets and the gentle rustling of the wind, Ella gradually realizes that nighttime can be something to look forwar...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • THE HOLLOW UNDER THE TREE
    CARY FAGAN
    u003cpu003e When a circus train derails in 1925, a lion escapes and finds shelter in a four-hundred-acre park in the middle of a big city. No one knows about the creature except for Sadie Menken, the feisty daughter of a pie-maker. As various squirrels, dogs and an expensive peacock meet unfortunate ends, and the park "beast" is spotted by visitors, the lion's presence draws th...
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    $ 75,000.00

  • THE BREADWINNER
    DEBORAH ELLIS
    The first book in Deborah Ellis's riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families, and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's fathe...
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    $ 59,900.00

  • TWO WHITE RABBITS
    BUITRAGO, JAIRO
    In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the U.S. border. u003cpu003eThey travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She s...
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    $ 89,000.00

  • ABUCHAKA'S SHOES
    TAMAR TESSLER
    Abukacha finally throws away his worn out shoes and gets himself a new pair. But the old shoes, somehow, keep finding their way back to him. When author and illustrator Tamar Tessler was a little girl, her aunt would tell her the story of Abukacha and his shoes — a story that had been told to her by her own Polish aunt, Fella. The plot was always different, but the problem rema...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • ALONG THE RIVER
    STARKOFF, VANINA
    Boats of all shapes and sizes travel on the river, through the seasons, toward the sea. Who will you meet on the river?This vibrant picture book from Brazil depicts the joy of the journey, showing in simple yet detailed illustrations the people you might meet along the way, the sights you might see and the food you might eat. Readers will delight in identifying recurring detail...
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    $ 78,000.00

  • THE PROMISE BASKET
    BILL RICHARDSON
    u003cpu003eA stone when it's thrown can damage, can break, but nothing can shatter the promise I make.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eSo begins the poem a mother writes on a scrap of paper. She wraps the paper around a stone and places it in a basket to give to her daughter on her first birthday. They are poor, but the mother is determined that gifts will be given when gifts need givin...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • MY BOOK OF BIRDS
    VALAERIO, GERALDO
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    $ 112,000.00

  • DOS CONEJOS BLANCOS
    BUITRAGO, JAIRO
    En esta conmovedora y oportuna historia, una niña pequeña describe lo que es ser un migrante mientras ella y su padre viajan hacia el norte hacia la frontera de los Estados Unidos. Viajan principalmente en el techo de un tren conocido como La Bestia, pero la niña no sabe adónde van. Cuenta los animales por el camino, las nubes en el cielo, las estrellas. A veces ve soldados. Du...
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    $ 89,000.00

  • AND SO IT GOES
    VALDIVIA, PALOMA
    u003cpu003eIn this gentle meditation on the cycle of life, author and illustrator Paloma Valdivia gives us an opportunity to reflect on those who have gone, those who will come, and those of us who are here in this world -- for the time being.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eThe neighbor's cat, a favorite aunt or the fish in yesterday's soup have gone -- and we may well miss them. At th...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • DON'T
    LITSA TROCHATOS
    This cleverly conceived board book appeals to a young child's sense of fun while providing facts about different animals. A series of impossible but delightful-to-imagine cautionary statements are followed by informative explanations: Don't take a bath with a pig. It loves wallowing in the mud. Don't start a food fight with an octopus. It has six more arms than you do. The simp...
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    $ 50,000.00

  • NOCTURNE
    ISOL
    u003ciu003eNocturne: Dream Recipesu003c/iu003e is a unique bedtime book that hints at the magic inherent in dreaming.u003cbru003eTwelve glow-in-the dark pictures present possible inspirations for a night in which the hidden world becomes visible. Just choose a dream from among the pictures and descriptions in the book, and then turn off the light to see a surprising glow-in-the...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • MIGRANT
    TROTTIER, MAXINE
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    $ 85,000.00

  • MOVÍ LA MANO / I MOVED MY HAND
    LUJAN, JORGE
    When a little girl moves her hand, she changes the world as she discovers it. As she moves her known world, she discovers her own power and creates everything anew. The poem, written by Argentine poet Jorge Luján, comes from a culture saturated with magic, in which even the very young can make the world by reaching out and moving it. Mandana Sadat’s imaginative illustrations de...
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    $ 88,000.00