Books with author Alice B. Woodward

Ivy is a little young girl who is not obedient yet full of imaginations. Her life revolves around imagining of big things and travelling to many parts of the word by imagination. Ivy does not like to study and is always pushed to do her homework by her parents. She is assigned duties to do but never does. Realizing how mischievous and disobedient she had become, her parents lock her in a room and orders that she does not leave the room until she finishes her homework. She was not even allowed to play with her dolls. She goes to her room, lies on her bed and continues to daydream. She does not even attempt to do her homework. Suddenly she receives an imaginary visitor who worked as a librarian the big city. John the librarian decided to help Ivy get out of her imaginations and face the real world. She is taken to the biggest library in the city where there lost of book. She read through the book but first she gets interested in fiction stories. The librarian guides her in looking at things in a more realistic way and suddenly Ivy starts to see things in the real way She goes to a place where there blank books and wonders what to do with them. Finally she gets a book talking about herself. She reads is through and impressed about it, she writes all the other blank books. Once she is done, she finds herself back in her room, wiser and energetic. She takes her homework and completes it. The story of Ivy teaches us to look at things in a more realistic way and not to live in world of imaginations

The story of the amazing anything tree, bring into picture a family that has three children, 2 girls Cindy and Emily and one boy called Alvin. They all share the same birthday day but their age is different. Cindy is 5 years old and is the youngest, Alvin is 10 years old and Emily is the first born and aged 1 years. The three children have always enjoyed gift from their parents every birthday. However the parents realize their children had grown big and needed to learn to nurture what they have, work together regardless of their age differences and to always share. They therefore get them a tree, the amazing anything tree and plants it at the backyard of their house. They get them a book giving guidelines of how to grow the tree. The parents plant only 1 tree and buy 1 book for the children to share. They all work hard to grow the tree and when they fail they share experiences and looked for the way forward together. They finally manage to grow the tree and each one of them gets to enjoy what they had wished for but in a different way. The story teaches little children to protect what they have and be independent. They learn that life has many challenges that they must encounter and get a way to overcome them. Life is not all about parents or other people providing, it is also for the children, to work hard in order to achieve their dreams and desires. The road to success may be difficult and challenging, but the fruits are sweet.

Rose is a 10 year old girl who stays with her parents in a big city. Rose loves to adventure at his young age but she has not been getting the opportunity because she believes it is upon her parents to take her out to different places. She hates being in her house very much and refers to her parents and relatives as boring. Everything around her seems boring. Her elder sister studies in a college far from home, but Rose believes her sister studies a very boring subjects. She dislikes her sister for leaving such a boring life. Rose lives a life of blaming others for not taking her places.As she walks around her house, she sees a big album with photos of her family. She goes through it and discovers how her family had an adventurous life when they were growing up. She realizes that for one to have an interesting life, one had to go out and make life interesting by themselves.The story of Rose teaches us not to depend on other people and not to blame others for our failures. Rose’s family cannot pull her out to adventure, she needs to think of how she can go out and make life interesting to live it. Life is all about creativity. When Rose realized that she needed to go out and explore the world by herself, life was no longer boring! She even gets interested in learning the magic that her sister studied.Go out there and make the world interesting to live in!

Lola is a young girl aged 14 years; she lives with her father only as her mother died when she was only 5 years old. She grew up with her father who was a mechanic at his garage. Lola’s father Moses had lived his life as a mechanic and would therefore interact more with people who shared the same thoughts. Lola got bored of being in the house and decides to help work at the garage where his father worked. And so every morning they would leave for work together. She learnt so much at the garage and one day she decided to assemble a robot that she would interact with every time she was at the garage. She faced a few challenges when assembling the robot but never gave up until she was able to assemble it. The robot did not come to life until Moses helped his daughter to fix a battery. He was proud of his daughter that she had learnt engineering skills while working at the garage. Later on when Lola grew up, she opened her own garage where she employed many people. She had good knowledge and skills on mechanical issues and handled her work well. She then assembled many more robots and sold them to people and taught little children how to assemble robots. The story of Lola teaches us to be focused and follow our dreams. When she went to work at the garage she used the little knowledge she gained to come up with something similar to what she had learnt. She did not look at engineering as a course for men as many people associate it. She proved that she can do any kind of work!

One day in the village called Tuna, there lived a mother and her 3 children 2 boys and a girl. Her mother was very poor and worked in a tea plantation to sustain her children. She taught her children many things and prepared them to meet the other world with confidence. The children helped their mother so much and often went to the forest to collect food and cook a meal for themselves and their mother. One day the mother asked them to go out and build their own houses where they would live on their own. She did so because they had grown big and she wanted them to be independent since she was aging and never wanted to die and leave them without a good life. The 3 siblings woke up one day and began their journey to look for a new home that they could leave in. They got to a big farm and decided to build their houses and they each lived in their own house. But Elsie’s house was carried away by the heavy floods and they put up another one for her with stronger materials. They worked very hard and each one of them got employed and they could sustain themselves. One day they went back to the village to visit their aging mother. She had stopped working at the tea plantation because she had grown very old and could not do manual jobs again. When they returned to their homes, they went with their mother and she lived with them thereafter. The story of the three siblings teaches us to work hard no matter our poor or rich backgrounds. We all need to lay a strong foundation for our children so that they can be able to face the outside world when nobody is there with them.

Sarah is a young girl aged 15 years who cannot communicate well with the people around her because she is telepathic. Sarah could hear people thoughts but had no power to enjoy them. At first Sarah felt like her parents were frustrated with her but never gave up. Sarah and her family moves out of the village to a new home in the city where everybody was telepathic. She meets a friend the same age with her and who had the same problem and they decide to work together to end the problem. Sarah braved herself by fighting monsters that everybody was afraid of and that had threatened the whole town. She however wonders how to handle the situation because monsters were known to hide their thoughts. But she and Tom who by now are used to living around peoples thoughts and never interacting with them, had to learn to observe and connect with the people as people. Children with such problems should not be considered less fortunate in the society. It is good to encourage them to be what they are and work towards achieving more. In this world we cannot all be the same and feeling less fortunate can make one’s life very difficult to live in. Parents should be very supportive to such children and give them support without treating them like people with inabilities. We call learn to deal with uncertainties which makes us better persons and we should start from an early age like Sarah did. We also learn that we can use our fear to build our strength like Tom did. He was always afraid of monsters but with the help and support of Sarah, he went out to fight them. At the end of the day he emerged strong and could face a monster. It is all about believing in oneself and taking up an opportunity when given chance.

Elvis is a young boy who lives in an isolated house at the New York City with his daredevils. All the daredevils and Elvis are orphans and their parents passed away when they were young. The city was known for low class level people and high class level people and they were not allowed to mingle among themselves. One day Elvis meets a young beautiful girl who apparently belonged to the higher class. They became friends despite the fact that it was not allowed for her to meet people of the lower class. Sooner or later, Elvis is arrested for dating Mercy and jailed. But after a few days he is released. He however continues to date Mercy secretly and without knowing discloses the secret, and he is rearrested again. After a few hours in jail, he is realized as the town anticipated floods that were believed would kill all the people who were in the isolated houses and only those at the top empire would survive. So Elvis is released from prison yet again, hoping that the floods would eventually kill him. But when the floods came, Elvis saved all the refugees who had come to seek help at the empire and he managed to climb and open all the doors and window and the whole town was saved from the floods. The people at the top empire were amused by his efforts and eventually allowed him to marry Mercy. From that time hence, all the people of New York City lived together without looking down on the less fortunate. Elvis teaches us to appreciate all people regardless of their status because problems can happen to anyone and we would all need each other’s help.

Tiny Jasper is a penguin who has for a long time been staying alone in a small lake. His only source of food came from the small lake. However the lake soon dries up and he must go out and look for a new home where he could also get his food. In his journey he meets animals who make good friends with him. He shares the side of his story with them and also listens to their story of life. His friends are all willing to give him a home close to them but Jasper wants a home of his own. He is a bright little Penguin because he does not want to depend on other people for his life. If Jasper was lazy, he could have accepted the offer from his friends, and stayed on waiting for them to help in everything. But being a bright penguin he wanted to be independent and have his own life. Thou all his friends had different personalities, he equally listened to all. Jasper is never afraid of trying new things. Having lived in a small lake, he was headed to an ocean. And even though he was afraid of being in an ocean because he was tiny; he still went on and managed to swim and enjoyed himself. In the story of Jasper, he teaches us to appreciate our friends but remain focused and not to be carried away by every idea we get, that would make us lose focus.

The story of the monsters involves two brother cats Collins the elder brother and Peter. Peter was a very naive cat who always depended on his brother Collins for protection. He could not go anywhere without Collins. One day as they were taking a walk they met a female cat called Bobby whom they were very afraid of. The cat scared them when he spoke to a monster. Peter was very afraid of monsters. So as they walked round the garden in the neighborhood, Collins was kidnapped by the monster and Peter was left alone. He was very worried and started searching for Collins without success. Suddenly, Peter decided to seek help from the female cat who he was afraid of. He had to put his fears aside and approach bobby for help. So as they searched for Collins together with another friend, eventually both Bobby and his friend were kidnapped by the monsters and Peter is left with nobody to help him.He had learnt so much since Collins was kidnapped and he was now brave to search for his brother and his friends. We walked to the woods of the monsters and when he got there, the big monster tried to threaten him but he was not afraid. He confronted the monster and eventually rescued his brother Collins and his friends. They walked back to their garden happily and Collins was happy that his brother had become a brave cat.The story gives children the courage to face the world and overcome fears. Some children depend entirely on their parents or older people for help and when they encounter a problem on their own, they cannot handle it. We learn from Peter that nothing is impossible and our fears can make us stronger and fearless. It is all about building confidence in us.

The Banbury Cross Series was a collection of 12 volumes of books edited by Grace Rhys and published in London by Dent in the 1890s. Each book is attractively illustrated with full page and partial page pen and ink drawings in a classic Art Nouveau style by leading artists of the era. This title collates Banbury Cross with many other familiar nursery rhymes that will delight young and old alike. Alice B. Woodward's black and white illustrations of sweet children and quaint, idyllic scenes are a wonderful match for these timeless poems. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.

THE STORY OF PETER PAN. Sir J. M. Barrie's delightful creation, "Peter Pan," has by this time taken a secure place in the hearts of children of all ages, and there are few nurseries in the land in which Peter, Wendy, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook and his Pirates, the Mermaids and Redskins, and the exciting world in which they lived, are not as familiar as the most time-honoured lore of fairyland. The popularity of Mr. Daniel O'Connor's version of the story, issued with Sir J. M. Barrie's kind consent, and illustrated so charmingly by Miss Alice B. Woodward, has induced the publishers to bring out the present re-issue at a lower price. The selections of music which will be found in it are included with the permission of Mr. John Crook, the composer, and Messrs. Price and Reynolds.

The Banbury Cross Series was a collection of 12 volumes of books edited by Grace Rhys and published in London by Dent in the 1890s. Each book is attractively illustrated with full page and partial page pen and ink drawings in a classic Art Nouveau style by leading artists of the era. This title collates Banbury Cross with many other familiar nursery rhymes that will delight young and old alike. Alice B. Woodward's black and white illustrations of sweet children and quaint, idyllic scenes are a wonderful match for these timeless poems. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.