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Chair for My Mother

Chair for My Mother more books like this

by Vera B Williams

After their home is destroyed by fire, Rosa, her mother, and grandmother save and save in order to buy a comfortable chair for all to enjoy. The family's life together is loving and spirited.

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More More More, Said the Baby

More More More, Said the Baby more books like this

by Vera B Williams

In these stories about three babies and the people who love them, multicultural families display love that spans generations. Colorful gouache illustrations accompany the text.

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Cherries and Cherry Pits

Cherries and Cherry Pits more books like this

by Vera B Williams

Biddemi, a young African-American girl, shares her rich imagination with the world in these three stories about giving, love, and making art.

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Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea

Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea more books like this

by Vera B Williams

This book contains an album of clever postcards and photographs chronicling Stringbean Coe's trip from Kansas to the West Coast in a homemade camper with his big brother, Fred. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1988.

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Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart

Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator)

Amber and Essie are sisters who are also best friends. Their family has fallen on hard times, so they fill in the gaps for each other with spunk and unfailing optimism. Essie cooks while Mama works, and Amber scares away the rat under the sink because Daddy won't be coming home for a long time. Full-color illustrations.

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Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe more books like this

by Vera B Williams

A young girl describes a wonderful canoe trip she took with her cousin and their mothers. She includes instructions for making a fire, tying a knot, putting up a tent, and cooking fruit stew.

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Lucky Song

Lucky Song more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator)

A colorful celebration about a wonderful day in the life of a young girl named Evie. On this spectacular day, Evie gets dressed all by herself, flies a kite that her grandmother made for her, has a tasty dinner, plays with her sister, and is sung to sleep by her father. Illustrated with watercolor paintings.

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Scooter

Scooter more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator)

After her parents divorce, Elana Rose Rosen and her mother move to a housing project in a big city. Elana spends her summer days traveling through her new community on her trusty scooter, getting to know her neighbors and the rhythms of life in the city.

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Music, music for everyone

Music, music for everyone more books like this

by Vera B Williams

Rosa, from "A Chair for My Mother," organizes her friends into a band to earn the money her family needs due to her Grandmother's illness. This is a Spanish language version of the book.

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Something Special for Me

Something Special for Me more books like this

by Vera B. Williams

The coins in the jar that Rosa, Mama, and Grandma have saved are for Rosa to buy a present for her birthday, but she has a hard time deciding what she wants. Finally, she chooses something special that all of them will enjoy.

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Un Sillon Para Mi Mama more books like this

by Vera B Williams

After their home is destroyed by fire, Rosa, her mother, and grandmother save and save in order to buy a comfortable chair for all to enjoy. The family's life together is loving and spirited. This is a Spanish language version of the book.

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Long Walks and Intimate Talks: Stories, Poems and Paintings more books like this

by Grace Paley, Vera B Williams (Photographer)

Originally published in part as a calendar to benefit the War Resisters League, this gorgeously packaged book provides 365 reasons not to have another war. Paley's poems and short fiction--including material published here for the first time--are perfectly complemented by Williams' 30 vivid watercolors.

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Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea more books like this

by Jennifer Williams, Vera B Williams

This book contains an album of clever postcards and photographs chronicling Stringbean Coe's trip from Kansas to the West Coast in a homemade camper with his big brother, Fred. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1988.

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Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Authors & Illustrators more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator), Michael J Rosen (Editor)

Thirteen authors and seventeen illustrators celebrate the places and things that make up the home, in support of Share Our Strength's (SOS) fight against homelessness.

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Algo Especial Para Mi more books like this

by Vera B Williams

The coins in the jar that Rosa, Mama, and Grandma have saved are for Rosa to buy a present for her birthday, but she has a hard time deciding what she wants. Finally, she chooses something special that all of them will enjoy. This is a Spanish language version of the book.

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Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart: The Story of Amber and Essie, Told Here in Poems and Pictures more books like this

by Vera B Williams, Barbara Rosenblat (Read by), Carine Montbertrand (Read by)

With the voices of two individual, but loving sisters resonating through these poignant, interconnected poems the narrative of their difficult, but hopeful lives unfolds with warmth, clarity and humor. Struggling to get through their days with a father in jail and a mother who works long hours, the two young girls find both joy and sorrow in their ...

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Mas Mas Mas, Dijo el Bebe: 3 Historias de Amor more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator), Liliana Valenzuela (Translator)

Reborn as a durable board book, Vera B. Williams' lively tale offers a "trio of gentle vignettes (that) shows three toddlers gathered up and cuddled by grownups"--"Horn Book". Full color.

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The Great Watermelon Birthday more books like this

by Vera B Williams

One hundred children, each with a birthday on August 10, celebrate with a party in the park and form "The Club of 101 Children."

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It's a Gingerbread House: Bake It! Build It! Eat It! more books like this

by Vera B Williams

Let Grandpa and Ben teach you all you need to know about making, baking and building a gingerbread house. Their clear instructions unlock the secrets of a delicious holiday tradition for young and old alike. Three-color.

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Un Sillon Para Mi Mama/A Chair for My Mother more books like this

by Vera B Williams, Aida E Marcuse (Translator)

A child for my mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

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Musica Para Todo El Mundo more books like this

by Vera B Williams

Rosa, from "A Chair for My Mother," organizes her friends into a band to earn the money her family needs due to her Grandmother's illness. This is a Spanish language version of the book.

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It's a Gingerbread House! more books like this

by Vera B Williams

Instructions for baking and constructing a gingerbread house. Three-color illustrations accompany the text.

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Music, Music for Everyone (Spanish Edition): Imusica Para Todo El Mundo! more books like this

by Vera B Williams

Rosa, from "A Chair for My Mother," organizes her friends into a band to earn the money her family needs due to her Grandmother's illness. This is a Spanish language version of the book.

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Our class presents Ostrich feathers : a play in two acts more books like this

by Barbara Brenner, Vera B. Williams, Evelyn Armstrong

When the ostrich loses his tail feathers to a hunter, the jungle animals decide to do some hunting of their own.

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Cherries and cherry stones

by Vera B. Williams

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