New Releases by Charlotte Zolotow

If you are lucky you know someone like the elderly lady in this book. Whenever she sees you--coming home from school, trick-or-treating at Halloween, or walking with your dog in the wood--she makes you feel special. She is someone you admire. She is someone you love.

After she and her father take a walk and have a bedtime snack, a little girl is finally sleepy enough to go to bed.

With her finely tuned ear for the concerns and cadences of childhood, Zolotow records a little girl describing all the things she likes that grown-ups usually do not. This tale, adapted from Zolotow''s I Want to Be Little and newly illustrated with appealing watercolors, will strike a pleasurable chord with adults and children.

These two stories, Janey and My Grandson Lew are about children''s memories of a best friend and a grandfather. Although both children have lost someone close to them, they remember only happy things. The stories are also available on cassette in the Read and Listen series.

I hate hate hated my friend. When I moved over in the school bus, she sat somewhere else. When her point broke in arithmetic and I passed her my pencil, she took Peter''s instead. "Ask her," my mother said. "Ask your friend why."

One by one the members of a family awake one cold November morning to discover that during the night there has been a beautiful snowfall.

Illustrations accompany couplets describing things that go together naturally, such as "Sand with sea" and especially "you with me."

An illustrated collection of poems arranged under eight subject categories including "The Sea," "People and Friendship," "Animals," and "Bedtime Thoughts."

The stories in this collection deal with loss, separation, unrequited and unspoken love, divorce or death of those we care about.

An infant''s mother gives him many loving nicknames until he surprises her by saying "Mama".

‘Gruffness and anger is passed along from person to person until a little dog starts a chain of happiness that reverses the trend. [A] pleasant picture book [that touches on] emotional maturity.’ —ALA Children’s Services Division.

While out for a walk on a spring morning, a little girl shows her mother things grown-ups sometimes miss.

A mother reassures her little girl there is a way to know that someone far away loves you.

Mr. Rabbit helps a little girl find a lovely present for her mother, who is especially fond of red, yellow, green, and blue.

A little girl asks if she may return home to visit when she grows up and no longer spills powder in the bathroom or knocks over the plants.

Together Lewis and his mother remember Grandpa, who used to come in the night when Lewis called.

A young girl describes the loneliness she feels after her best friend moves away.

Two little girls take a walk on a cold snowy day.

Records, in rhyming text and illustrations, the experiences of getting up in the morning and going to bed at night.

A small boy tells his mother what he would like a father to be.

These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Tai National Park in Cote d Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild apes and at the lives of the humans who study them. In tales of adventure, research, and conservation, veteran field researchers and conservationists describe exciting discoveries made over the past few decades about chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. The book features vivid descriptions of interactions among these highly intelligent creatures as they hunt, socialize, and play. More difficult themes emerge as well, including the threats apes face from poaching, disease, and deforestation. In stories that are often moving and highly personal, this book takes measure of how special the great apes are and discusses positive conservation efforts, including ecotourism, that can help bring these magnificent animals back from the brink of extinction.

Poems about nature, memories, and childhood experiences.

Describes the home, family, customs, school, and amusements of an Indian boy living on a houseboat on Dal Lake in Kashmir.

A child reminisces about her old dear friend who now has a different friend, and though she is bereft, plans to find a new friend herself.

Captures some of the joys and beauties of each season.

As far as little sister was concerned, there was nothing big sister couldn''t do. One day, though, little sister wanted to be alone and she hid in the meadow. Big sister couldn''t find little sister so she began to cry--until little sister came to comfort her. Illustrated. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

In this wise and wry take on sibling rivalry, a little boy describes all the things he could have and do if he didn''t have a brother. Full color.