Nancy Willard
1) Sweep dreams
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man who loves a magical, dancing broom learns how to make her happy, finds her after she is stolen, and finally sets her free and hopes that she will someday return home.
2) Shadow story
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The clever Holly Go Lolly, now orphaned, lures the evil parent-eating ogre Ooboo into the make-believe forest she has created with hand shadows.
Author
Language
English
Description
The lyrical poems of award-winning author Nancy Willard celebrate the magic of life
Nancy Willard, who was the first recipient of a Newbery Medal for a volume of poetry, displays her versatility in these companion collections.
Divided into five sections, Water Walker blends the mundane with the mystical. From sleeping fish to Marco Polo to a tortoise who dispenses unique advice to a bride on her wedding day, these poems integrate fables,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Birthday presents for mothers are never right-they're always too big, too small, or the wrong color. So when a young girl's mother simply asks for a homemade birthday cake, the girl thinks her troubles are over. Her happiness quickly disappears, though, when she hears the name of the cake her mother wants. The girl knows she won't find a High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake recipe in The Joy of Cooking. It will take a secret...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The weird creatures which inhabit a medieval painter's home drive his housekeeper away, until a change of heart sends her back to the beasts and to Bosch in a new and loving relationship.
7) Gum
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
James and Danny dream of getting the silver racer from Mr. Wright's gumball machine, but only the luckiest people get things other than gumballs, luckily James has a magical Canadian quarter.