Books with author Jennifer Storey Gillis

On Tuesday afternoon, December 7, 1993, Toni Morrison stood before an audience at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Dressed in a black gown, she began her speech with the words "Once upon a time." She was at the academy to give her Nobel Lecture in Literature. She would be accepting the Nobel Prize, a writer's highest honor. She was the first African-American woman and only the eighth woman ever to be so honored in literature.

Read and Learn is an extensive new collection of non-fiction books that help young readers discover and understand the world around them. Packed with fascinating facts and wonderful colour photographs Read and Learn provides a bridge from the Foundation Stage into Key Stage 1. Celebrations focuses on the features and rituals that characterize important celebrations such as Christmas and Hanukkah. It provides readers with a mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar to gain an understanding of differences and similarities of celebrations in different cultures. Chapter headings are designed as child-friendly questions to help children focus and learn.