Books with author Michael Walter

A Stray is a story about Myra-Lou who longs to have a stray cat for a pet. Her parents are appalled and her brother is disgusted. But Myra-Lou is insistent. After much haggling and a twist of fortune, Myra-Lou finally gets her stray. This is a story that deals with the irrational attachment that children can have over a dream or an object, and the extent that a family would go to to reach a compromise without abandoning their principles.

In a day and age when everything seems to be moving a little too fast and winding children down for bed seems impossible, "In Pursuit of Purple Sleep" will quickly become a nightly favorite. Uniquely designed as a children's bedtime story with a paradoxical purpose, it will gently relax their spirits, while stimulating their imaginations. Written in easy to read and easy to remember rhyming stanzas, each page rhythmically pursues an imaginary dream-world full of colorful adventures and suggestions of relaxation. It's a well blended mixture of digitally crafted actual images, woven in a tapestry of magical illustrations bursting with color and dripping with artistic fancy. Sail the Imagination Ocean along with your children and discover a place where it is impossible to fail.

The crowd couldn't take it anymore. They jumped the fence! They surrounded the ref. They grabbed his whistle and threw it onto the ground. A granny pirate stomped on it. A toddler pirate even gave it a punch! Grand Finals are different. And the Soccer Knockout Grand Final is as different as it gets. Things go haywire! They go crazy! They go completely insane! And then they get really weird! Can Maxx, Rexx and the Stone Valley Saints overcome the rottenest team in history, or is this where their Grand Final dream gets fed to the sharkies?

In Wallace's stirring fantasy adventure, two kids in Vermont discover a magical land where a kingdom of bears is fighting a desperate struggle for survival against a gang of rapacious weasels. Mistaken for emissaries of a lost human kingdom, they join with a band of renegade bears, a skunk, and a clan of fierce badgers, to reclaim the throne of the Kingdom of the Bears. The Kingdom of the Bears is a page turner for fantasy lovers of all ages, in the vein of The Chronicles of Narnia.

The Beecheys were a close-knit family: eight brothers and five sisters under the loving eye of their mother. But swept into the devastation of the Great War, the brothers paid the ultimate price for King and country, one after another. A family sacrifice almost without parallel, it was forgotten and unmarked - until now. In a small case handed down through the family were hundreds of letters from the boys. Scraps of paper scribbled on in the firing line, heartfelt deathbed letters and exasperated notes detailing life in the trenches. Piecing together the Beechey story, Michael Walsh interweaves theses letters with a moving account of the war, and its shattering effects at home and abroad.