Books with author Beatrice de Regniers

An imaginative boy brings a surprising array of friends to dine at the palace in this Caldecott Medal–winning picture book.One day, a small boy receives a very special invitation—the King and the Queen have invited him to the castle for tea. He accepts, with one question: “May I bring a friend?” “Any friend of our friend is welcome here,” says the King. But their guest’s friend turns out to be someone they never expected! Beatrice Schenk de Regniers’s rhythmic text and the fantastical, jewellike artwork of Beni Montresor have made this book a favorite for more than twenty-five years.

When a favorite aunt is reading to her favorite nephew (and she has her arm around him) she can read Shakespeare's sonnets or Milton's epic verse or T.S. Eliot's "Wasteland" and still hold-if not the child's attention, at least the child himself. In the classroom, as every teacher knows, it's different. Each of the 106 poems in this book was chosen with this difference in mind. They were chosen expressly for a teacher to read aloud to-and with-her class. Every selection invites the listeners' participation-vocal, physical, or emotional.

What can you do with a shoe? You can put it on your ear or wear it on your head or butter it like bread or use apple jam instead! What can you do with a hat? You can fill it up with pickles or with popcorn or with glue. An octopus could rest in it, a bird could build a nest in it, a turtle be a guest in it. Or would a horse look best in it? These are samples of the questions and wonderfully silly, laugh-provoking answers in a game played by a little girl and boy dressed up i their parents clothes. On every page of this whimsically playful book, there are enchanting watercolor illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Inspired by the infectiously funny pictures and text, children will soon begin to make rhymes of their own about everyday things. Richly imaginative and wholly in tune with children's high spirits and sense of play, What can you do with a show?, now issued in a new edition with full-color paintings, will be welcomed by young and old. It is a treasure.

An imaginative boy brings a surprising array of friends to dine at the palace in this Caldecott Medal–winning picture book.One day, a small boy receives a very special invitation—the King and the Queen have invited him to the castle for tea. He accepts, with one question: “May I bring a friend?” “Any friend of our friend is welcome here,” says the King. But their guest’s friend turns out to be someone they never expected! Beatrice Schenk de Regniers’s rhythmic text and the fantastical, jewellike artwork of Beni Montresor have made this book a favorite for more than twenty-five years.

Abe Lincoln loved to tell jokes and funny stories. And he liked to listen to them-even when the jokes were on him! Lincoln even had a favorite joke book. And some of these jokes and stories are from that book. All the jokes and stories included here are ones that Lincoln told or were told about him. Maybe you'll want to tell some of them to your friends...