Written and Illustrated by Eliza Wheeler Inspired by the author’s grandmother’s childhood, growing up during the Great Depression. When Marvel’s father dies from cancer and her mother is left to raise eight children between ages 3 months to 14 years, they are forced to find an abandoned, tumbledown shack in the woods and turn it …
Written by Patricia MacLachlan, Illustrated by Kenard Pak By the time I finished this picture book I was bawling. Patricia McLachlan, author of Sarah, Plain and Tall, has written a story 100 years in the making. In 1819 her grandparents, who had come from Russia and settled in the plains of North Dakota, needed to …
A Drop of the Sea Written by Ingrid Chabbert, Illustrated by Guridi
