Books with author Christine Wood

Would you love for your kids to use their manners? To say please, thank you, and you're welcome? All of the time? Or maybe just some of the time?!?!This sweet story of Buddy and Belly Bunny will help your young children understand the importance of using their manners and how using manners shows respect.Buddy and Belly learn that it feels good to be polite!BUY Hey Little Bunny - Use Your Manners RIGHT NOW, and help your children learn the importance of manners!

The candy became an obsession between two outcasts—one who only wanted to fit in, the other who knew she never would.Urban legends, rumors, lies, myths, mysteries, fairy tales. Stories, in all their magical forms, bound them together.“Satin Chocolate–Covered–Chicken Bones,” “Astro Pop,” “Fun Dip,” “Thrills.” The candy stories—outrageous, twisted, hysterical— were an escape from a harsh reality and revealed a startling truth.Darkly lyrical, sensual, suspenseful, and disturbing, The Candy Darlings is a celebration of friendship, story, and the power of each to help you define yourself—or simply survive.

Elsie is a calico cat who was born to do great things. When she is taken by humans to their apartment, she begins plotting to take over the world. Soon humans will be in subjugation to cats. As Her Royal Highness Elsie Cat the First, she will unify cats across the world and provide them with their just dues. But Elsie encounters obstacles to her goals: from incompetent messenger rats to spoiled neighbor cats unwilling to join the resistance. This delightful tale from a feline's perspective will vindicate those who always claimed cats were plotting something. The Elsie Files sparkles with acerbic wit amid the contrary ambitions of Elsie and the pesky humans. As Elsie schemes to dominate the humans, she'll begin to question her aims. Will ruling the world be as wonderful as she's always dreamed? Christine Webb gives voice to the pet that prompted the phrase 'dogs have owners; cats have staff.'

When Zero realized that he did not have any value he became very sad and tried to fit in where he did not belong. This story tells what happens when The Zero decides to cooperate."Why the Zero was Sad" was written to give a creative look at the numbers from zero to ten. It will help young children learn to count in an amusing way, and also introduce young children to the rhyming of words.

When Corey visits the Art Museum with his Grandmother, he has no idea the adventure that is in store. As he looks at the portrait of Nathan Hale he is transported to another time and place where he learns the true meaning of honor, courage, character, and being an American. Join Corey for his unforgettable journey in History...Through the Eyes of a Child: Nathan Hale.

Sixteen-year-old Australian, Killara Jones, is the chosen one—for all the wrong reasons. A lone psychic in the sleepy town of Khalija, North Dakota, he is a self-proclaimed freak who can see angels, demons, and a lot of other things in between. Unbeknownst to him, his talents are a means to an end. His death has been foretold—he is a crucial element in the war between Heaven and Hell—until a fallen angel named Sullivan steps in. With Killara very much alive, he and Sullivan must break an ancient pact, stop Killara’s classmates from selling their souls, and prevent the Gates of Hell from opening again. Bad angels, good demons, and a teenager who just wants to survive. Only by believing in themselves and working together, can this team of misfits restore the balance and save their town. Will they succeed? Or watch as all hell breaks loose, forcing them into a Showdown at Evil High?

In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie stars until she was arrested at last in 1962. Shortly before she died in 1974, she tape—recorded her memories-the scandalous stories of a powerful woman who had the city's politicians in her pocket and whose lovers included the twenty-five-year-old boy next door, whom she married when she was sixty-four. Combining those tapes with original research, Christine Wiltz chronicles not just Norma's rise and fall but also the social history of New Orleans, thick with the vice and corruption that flourished there—and, like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Philistines at the Hedgerow, resurrects a vanished secret world.

Licorice, suckers, bubblegum, melt-aways, mints... The candy became an obsession between two outcasts—one who only wanted to fit in, the other who knew she never would. Urban legends, rumours, lies, myths, mysteries, fairy tales... Stories, in all their magical forms, bound them together. "Satin Chocolate-Covered Chicken Bones,""Astro Pop,""Fun Dip,""Thrills"... The candy stories—outrageous, twisted, hysterical—were an escape from a harsh reality and revealed a startling truth. Darkly lyrical, sensual, suspenseful, and disturbing, The Candy Darlings is a celebration of friendship, story, and the power of each to help you define yourself—or simply survive.