Books with author Aliki

Hello. Good-bye. Every day we use these words.In one way or another we say them again and again. We say "hello" when we meet.We say "good-bye" when we part. They are a beginning and an end.Who but the incomparable Aliki would be able to take these two simple words and show us that they are filled with possibilities. There are many different kinds of hellos -- and just as many good-byes. And each can be filled with excitement and surprise. Start reading-and say hello to fun!

Remember those days of sand castles and sunburns, of saltwater taffy and sand-drenched sandwiches? Remember how the cousins would romp inthe waves, and roll inthe hot sand like fish cakes? And on rainy days everyone stayed inside and read or played games? At night it was long walks on the board walks, Ferris wheel rides and sticky cotton candy. Those are the days that Aliki calls back in this heartfelt remembrance of one special summer vacation by the shore. Pile into the car, and journey to the seashore with Aliki.

A sea captain must depart in haste from the inn where he had eaten a meal of four fried eggs. He returns six years later to pay his debt and discovers that the innkeeper's menu has gone up considerably—500 gold pieces, he demands! But a clever lawyer finds a way around the innkeeper's avarice. As The Bulletin of the Center of Children's Books said of this book, also published by Pantheon in 1971, "The style of the retelling is excellent (and) the illustrations have vigor and humor."