Books with author Michael David Axtell

This charming version of a well-known chant takes place on the African savannaIn this beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-known children's chant, two sisters are looking not for a bear but for a lion―a lion that lives on the African savanna, where the girls go through swishy-swashy long grass, a splishy-splashy lake, and a Big Dark Cave. When they finally meet their lion, they have to run, run, run through it all again to get back home.Young readers will enjoy the playful language and beautiful paintings that reset a familiar story in a far-off part of the world.

This charming version of a well-known chant takes place on the African savannaIn this beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-known children's chant, two sisters are looking not for a bear but for a lion—a lion that lives on the African savanna, where the girls go through swishy-swashy long grass, a splishy-splashy lake, and a Big Dark Cave. When they finally meet their lion, they have to run, run, run through it all again to get back home.Young readers will enjoy the playful language and beautiful paintings that reset a familiar story in a far-off part of the world.

We're going on a lion hunt. We're going to catch a big one.We're not scared.In David Axtell's beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-known children's poem, two sisters are out looking for a lion - a lion that lives on the African savanna. The girls go through swishy swashy long grass, a splishy splashy lake, and a Big Dark Cave. When they finally meet their lion, they have to run, run, run through it all again to get back home. With illustrations bursting with magnificent animals, little adventurers with love journeying through this African savanna.

Running Free & Stevie Gets Back in the Saddle - 2 flash fiction stories about 13-year-old Stevie Buckbee."Running Free" - Running sprints after soccer practice isn't so bad with the help of Cocoa, one of Stevie's horses."Stevie Gets Back in the Saddle" - Jack Rabbit, Stevie's first horse all her own threw her and kicked her over spring break. Now it's time to get back in the saddle.

Under the last Full Moon of summer, in the Overlap of Worlds, the Red Moon Faire opens its gates.Lupe Garcia has never heard of the Red Moon Faire. All she knows is her dream of being a dog and chasing rabbits around Spring Hollow has turned out to be all too real. She has no idea how to change back into her normal girl shape, and now the ghost of a saber-toothed tiger with only one tusk is chasing her through the sleeping neighborhood, roaring at her to return his missing tooth.Eluding the ghost, Lupe stumbles into the Overlap and the Faire. She's still a dog, but the Faire doesn't care. Everyone--and everything--is welcome at the Red Moon Faire: six-foot-tall intelligent rabbits, tiny Elvs, lizardmen in business suits, and much more.But there are also shadows at the Faire, and snares for the unwary. And a prisoner desperate to escape--even if the attempt puts Lupe in harm's way...

This charming version of a well-known chant takes place on the African savanna.We're going on a lion hunt.We're going to catch a big one.We're not scared.Been there before.In this beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-known children's chant, two sisters are looking not for a bear, but for a lion-a lion that lives on the African savanna, where the girls go through swishy swashy long grass, a splishy splashy lake, and a Big Dark Cave. When they finally meet their lion, they have to run, run, run through it all again to get back home. Young readers will enjoy the playful language and beautiful paintings that reset a familiar story in an unusual and very special part of the world.

People with fairy blood in their veins should be careful when saying, "I wish..."Faye Woods, 11, thinks that would have been good to know *before* she wished she didn't have a brother--and knowing she was part-fairy might have been useful information too.Faye and her little brother, Flub, are the newest residents of quirky, beautiful Spring Hollow, a neighborhood where the houses have names like Hawk Briar and Jack Rabbit Run--and where a hole in a park fence leads to Spring Hollow's magical Other Side.Brenna Guin and Lupe Garcia have lived in Spring Hollow all their lives, though on opposite sides, but they have never seen anything like what they find when they follow Faye and Flub through the hole in the fence.When an evil shadow from Spring Hollow's past emerges from the Other Side to threaten Flub, Faye and Brenna and Lupe must work together to rescue Flub before the sun rises.

A new witch has come to Spring Hollow, just in time for Halloween.Halloween is Brenna Guin’s favorite time of year. With her new friends, Faye Woods and Lupe Garcia, plus her new abilities--like being able to see in the dark--this year should be the best Halloween ever. If only her mother would stop ruining it for her.Two nights before Halloween, sneaking out after dark--alone, because even Norv, her pet rat, refuses to cooperate--Brenna encounters Eve Coronelle, the neighborhood’s newest addition.Brenna has never met Eve, but she has heard about “that Eve Coronelle” all month from her mother. Ever since Eve moved into the quaint gray brick house on Gingerbread Row, her mother has had nothing nice to say about the woman. Her mother had called Eve a witch more than once.Turns out, her mother was right ...