Books with author Donahue

"A wonderful book for young kids who love to figure things out on their own. I thought that the pictures were very creative and they provided a few chuckles, especially the picture of the children painting. I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars." — Independent ReaderKids can play detective with 25 pairs of similar-looking color photos. They'll compare the unaltered originals on the left to the ones on the right, which include several subtle changes. Suitable for ages 6 to 10, the kid-friendly illustrations depict slumber parties, birthday get-togethers, and other lively situations. Complete solutions appear at the end.

In the mid-1790s, President George Washington had well over 200 black slaves toiling for him in his home and on his sprawling Virginia plantation. Runaway introduces us to the only one of those enchained people to escape and tell her story. Ona Judge was the young personal attendant to Martha Washington. On a spring evening in 1796, she slipped out of the president's home, throwing her master and mistress into a consternation that lingered for years. Why had Ona fled, and where had she gone? Join Harper's and New York Times Magazine contributor Bill Donahue as he traces the flight of America's most intriguing fugitive slave.Journalist Bill Donahue has written for Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, The Atlantic, Runner’s World, The New Yorker, and Harper’s. In reporting stories from over 20 countries, he has searched for fallen meteorites in the Sahara Desert, biked the streets of Shanghai, snuck into Manuel Noriega’s abandoned beach house in Panama, and taste-tested moonshine in the snowy Caucasus mountains of Georgia. He is the author of The Secret World of Saints, an e-book about the Catholic Church and its saintmaking process, and his work has been reprinted in Best American Sports Writing, Best American Travel Writing, and many other anthologies. He lives in rural New Hampshire, where he runs the Scriven Arts Colony.Cover Design by Kerry Ellis.

Let's get moving with an exciting array of vehicles to color! Kids who are fascinated by fast-moving vehicles will be thrilled by these fun-filled, easy-to-color illustrations. Children's creativity will shift into high gear with thirty cute and cartoony drawings of cars, dump and tow trucks, a double-decker bus, trains, airplanes, a helicopter, dirigibles, and other flying and driving machines.

Joshua Loring is the twelve-year-old son of a Union army doctor killed during the Civil War. This compelling novel conveys how Joshua gains new insights into the realities of war and the fine line between friends and enemies when he begins to correspond with a young Confederate prisoner. In the end, he risks his life to travel to the island where his new friend is held captive.

Draw a fabulous gallery of wacky automatons and costumed crusaders! Excite young imaginations with these thrilling but unfinished images of robots and superheroes. Helpful captions suggest what's missing from each of the 106 illustrations. Suitable for ages 6 and up, the humorous drawings are great for coloring, and they'll appeal to adult doodlers, too.

While doing some last minute shopping on Christmas Eve a man has a magical experience. He watches a child preparing to get on Santa's lap through a shop window and is reminded about a special Christmas memory. When the child gets down Santa makes eye contact with the man and they are immediately taken back to a moment they had shared (in his past). So the story unfolds as he stares through a window of time at a Glimpse from Christmas Past . . .

Your new robot friends include a drink-dispensing 'bot, a bird-rescue unit, a marshmallow–slingshot robot, and a two-headed repair drone. With these 24 perforated picture pages, you can mix and match their components — the robot equivalents of heads, bodies, and legs — with those of other wacky automatons. Create all kinds of comical combinations and then color them!

Join the merry band of mechanical men as they march through this high-tech collection of 33 fun-to-follow mazes. Can you help SubBot find his way to the sunken treasure? Or guide SnowBot as he snowboards down a mountain to the finish line? Kids will love helping these space-age characters — and they can color each page afterward. Solutions are included.