Books with author Cathy Tracy

Constitution Translated for Kids - winner of the 2011 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Education (Government and Politics), the “Mom’s Choice Award” and a “Best Books Award” - is a simple, widely acclaimed, non ideological translation of the entire U.S. Constitution, side-by-side with the original 1787 text. Teachers hail the accompanying free Teacher’s Guide as an extraordinary resource to teach the Constitution to all ages.

Constitution Translated for Kids - winner of the 2011 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Education (Government and Politics), the “Mom’s Choice Award” and a “Best Books Award” - is a simple, widely acclaimed, non ideological translation of the entire U.S. Constitution, side-by-side with the original 1787 text. Teachers hail the accompanying free Teacher’s Guide as an extraordinary resource to teach the Constitution to all ages.

Constitution Translated for Kids - winner of the 2011 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Education (Government and Politics), the “Mom’s Choice Award” and a “Best Books Award” - is a simple, widely acclaimed, non ideological translation of the entire U.S. Constitution, side-by-side with the original 1787 text. Teachers hail the accompanying free Teacher’s Guide as an extraordinary resource to teach the Constitution to all ages.

Going to the zoo? Or can’t get to a zoo? This gives children a preview of what they might see at the zoo. It is real pictures, nearly all of animal mothers and children, all non-threatening images of the animals seen at a zoo. This child friendly book has vibrant full color images to offer a close-up look at exotic zoo animals. The pictures will grab your child’s attention and engage their imagination.

Waddle the baby penguin goes to her mother’s funeral. She’s so sad, and a little mad the world can still go on. Trying to find her mother, she swims with other ocean dwellers. Each one teaches her, mothers her, protects her, or loves her. In each of them, she sees her mother in little ways. She feels less alone when she sees their special star, and knows that mothers are never really gone.

When the light goes off in the refrigerator, a family of colorful, familiar items spring to life, sitting down to the dinner table. The young son (Musty, the mustard) tells how he laughed at a kid at school that day, and then endures his family’s anger for making fun of the new kid. The little boy doesn’t want to admit he was wrong, and struggles with what to do to keep from going rotten in the fridge. This fun, beautifully illustrated, story book (for ages 4-6) teaches kids the value of being nice, through humor and alternative scenarios. It serves as a lively bedtime story, back-to-school story – and it offers insight into kids’ social encounters.

Not Elf on the Shelf - Shelby’s family has Mary and Joseph on the road to Bethlehem. They put Mary and Joseph figurines from the Nativity scene someplace in the house, moving them closer to the manger scene each day. Mary and Joseph’s perilous, 90 mile journey to Bethlehem takes them from the Galilean highlands, to the Jordan River Valley, through the mountains and forests, to Jerusalem, and then on to Bethlehem. The story offers a very human look at Mary and Joseph, and shows the long road Jesus’ parents took at the beginning of the greatest story ever told. Beautifully illustrated, this interactive story illustrates the reason for the Christmas season.