Books with author Donald Thompson

What if coins could talk? In The Adventures of Lucky and Nicky they can! And much more! On one hand, Lucky (The Penny) and Nicky (The Nickel) are like your typical 12 year old boys that like to run and play. But on the other hand, the predicaments they encounter are very different. This book Lucky Gets Trapped in a Penny Loafer finds our coins in an unusual situation. As Lucky and Nicky are racing down the sidewalk, Lucky sees a boy running towards them. Let 's get out of here! shouts Lucky. Timmy chases the coins until they slow down and fall over with exhaustion. He scoops them up and runs towards his mother. He is very excited because he knows coins are valuable and plans to add them to his piggy bank. But his mother has a better idea for Lucky. She shows Timmy how to put the coin between the flaps of his penny loafer. Lucky is trapped. Later that night while Timmy is sleeping, Nicky finds Lucky sad and frightened under the bed. Unable to free him, Nicky dashes off looking for help. Soon, he finds Diana, a beautiful young dime. She tells Nicky I don't think I can be much help, but my father will help you. She yells, father, come quickly! Out of the crack in the wall, like a locomotive coming through a tunnel, appears a big and powerful 50 cent piece called Mr. Jack. Nicky leads Diana and her father to Lucky. Soon Lucky will be free. I hope to write more books involving Lucky and his friends. Children could learn math, multiculturalism,diversity,friendship and cooperation.

Graceful and Rosie Bunny are two delightful young daughters in a very special family in Bunny World. They love each other, and most of the time they play nicely together and share their toys. But just like sisters in the real world, sometimes they don't want to share, and sometimes they argue and blame and mistreat each other. Often, after one of those unhappy times Graceful dreamed of a very old lady who loved her and filled her heart with warmth. During one dream Graceful received a special gift. It helped remind her of the beautiful old lady and her loving lessons about kindness as the key to happiness. Graceful and Rosie had always been nice girls, but after the dreams and the special gift, the bunnies who knew them noticed a difference. They laughed more. They smiled more. They played nicely with other bunny friends and giggled with joy. Come spend time with the little bunnies. You'll have fun!

This book is the second book in the "Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat." In the first book, Curtis and Connie adopt a stray cat and train him to be an astronaut. This second book takes the kids and Cosmic Cat to their grandparent's farm for a few days. The children and the cat get into a number of exciting activities. These include such things as swinging out over a pond on a rope and dropping into the pond. Curtis, Connie, Cosmic Cat spend a lot of their time getting into trouble, or at least some mild forms of mischief. They pick a watermelon, a fish bites Connie, they dig worms, catch grasshoppers, look for little people in a giant fig tree, draw a map of the farm and generally have a good time. Curtis gets his back scratched by Cosmic Cat. They explore the pond for slimy web-footed critters near the water inlet and for the barbed swimming things near the cattails. These turn out to be frogs and catfish. Their older brothers strand them in the top of a large oak tree when they the ladder away. The book is 148 pages long with 26 line drawings.