My mommy and meLittle Mouse loves to skip and run, splish and splash and, most of all, have fun with her Mommy. Soft washes of colors and a spirited, rhythmic text demonstrate the love that this mother and child share. This lovely book is a wonderful gift for Mother's Day. Look for My Daddy and Me, also by Tina Macnaughton, to complete the perfect set.
And You Can Come Too(tumblebook)flash story And You Can Come Too Running away is a lot more fun when you let your family come too. For Sara and her little sister Annie, a quiet Saturday ends with a bout of sibling bickering. When Daddy intervenes with some firm words, Sara crossly announces she’s running away … and Annie can come too. Soon the girls are in the back yard, where they get Daddy to pitch a tent of bed sheets. They also let him bring flashlights when it gets dark, make a yummy supper of cheese sandwiches (with the crusts cut off), and read them bedtime stories. With cross words forgotten, and with all the comforts of home, what could make running away better?
Daddy drives a big red tanker truck, and he's away on the road a lot. But once in a while, he's near enough to pick up his little boy from preschool. And today is one of those very special days!
In her latest novel Mary Higgins Clark, the beloved, bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” exposes a dark secret from a family’s past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years.