Graded worksheets for teaching young learners about holidays from around the world.
* Bonfire Night * Carnival * Children’s Day * Chinese New Year * Christmas * Diwali * Earth Day * Halloween * Easter * May Day * Mother's Day * New Year * Pancake Day * Thanksgiving * Valentine’s Day * World Animal Day
Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could it have anything to do with Little Dorrit, the quiet, kind girl who sews for his mother and goes back at night to her home in the Marshalsea Prison? As Arthur gets to know the Dorrit family, he is too busy looking for the truth about his mother's secret to notice that he has perhaps found the answer to his own happiness...
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.
Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are very good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world. But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather.
"When Hopper's mother tells him that 'Spring is coming at last,' Hopper the bunny take his mother's words literally and eagerly bounds away to meet his new playmate. Soft-edged illustrations with dominant shades of blue and purple aptly suit this charming and childlike end-of-winter story." - The Horn Guide