A distant marching band grows larger and louder as it nears, and then softer and smaller as it goes away again.

The marching band is in the distance. Big as ants. Loud as crickets. Here it comes! Big as crickets. Loud as birds. Coming closer! Louder and louder, brighter a

★ “Smith spins a quietly moving narrative...Wada’s large-scale woodblock style illustrations are a perfect complement to the story’s restrained text...T

When Senor Don Gato receives a letter from the fluffy white lady cat declaring her love for him, a dramatic chain of events is set into motion. This traditional

It's the middle of a heat wave, and Charlie Schroeder is dressed in heavy clothing and struggling to row a replica eighteenth-century bateau down the St. Lawren