Books with author Sara Henderson

Wrong place. Wrong time. A boy on the run.THE MARKET’S ON FIRE. FIRE! FIRE! THE BOY DID IT!Smoke belches out through the market entrance.And me?I turn and run.Inverness 1889. When 12-year-old Phin is accused of a terrible crime, his only option is to flee. In the unlikely company of an escaped prisoner and a group of travelling entertainers, he enters a new world of Punch and Judy shows and dancing bears. But will Phin clear his name? And what can he do when memories of a darker, more terrible crime begin to haunt him?PUNCH is good proper storytelling, packed with colourful characters, shifting settings and real tension. Like Punch's nose I was hooked and with Phineas every fleeing, hiding, performing page of the way.Janis MacKayVivid, exhilarating, and heartwarming; a dramatic and colourful tale of life on the run.John K Fulton

Daniel’s back and even more draw-ery than before! There are a few simple rules Daniel follows. Rule One: never let an adult see your weakness. Daniel made that mistake and look where he ended up—summer camp. Rule Two: never make fun of the person who feeds you, unless you like Miss Gunderson’s peppery pancakes and green hamburgers. Rule Three: stay away from girls who love Glitter Ponies. They have cooties, after all. And Rule Four: never, ever lose your magic pencil. But Daniel has broken all of his own rules. Now he’s stuck and starving at Camp Bigfoot with the school bully as his bunkmate and an ooey-gooey girl who won’t leave him alone. If all of that wasn’t bad enough, his prized possession, a pencil that brings his drawings to life, has gone missing and wacky creatures are popping up all over camp. Can Daniel survive Camp Bigfoot and find his magic pencil before it’s too late?

This oversized board book traces a city across the span of a day -- filled with the people, traffic, parks, streets, stores, and buildings that make up the town. The breadth of the urban experience may all be found here: from the bicyclist lazily gliding through the park to the raucous swooshhhhh of traffic; from the clanging crash of construction work to the quiet of a sweeping streetscape as seen from a high-floor apartment building.Vibrant colors that zing with the heat rising from a steaming sidewalk are perfectly matched to a syncopated, sound-filled, chant-again-and-again text. Ingeniously die-cut pages reinforce the experience of the city skyline in a stylish book that represents a tour-de-force performance by Sara Anderson.

Macbeth got his foot to the ball a split second before it crossed the line. It stuck to his boot as if the leather for both had come from the same cow . . . Andy Macbeth is the star player on his school's football team. He knows a trick or two but does he know enough to survive his first year of high school?Andy thinks he does. So, what can possibly bring him down? Falling for Fifi L'Amour? Betraying his best mate? Being a deadest idiot? A tale told by an idiot, full of more idiots and football

Way back in the bayou country lies Crawdad County. The Spanish moss on the live oaks hangs so thick that unless you look especially closely, you might not notice rickety Alligator Acres, huddled cozily upon the water s edge. Its country just teeming with folks, a friendly kind of place Cecil, the alligator, calls home. Back beyond live Cecil's neighbors, including little Woo, the armadillo, and a zebra named Eloise. Just how a zebra came to be there is a story for another time. The wind does not often blow through the steamy bayou but when it does, a story is sure to follow. The wind is blowing tonight, there's a distant fiddle singing, and the story we are here to tell is about the Crawdad County dance of Eloise, who didn't quite fit in, and of Cecil and Woo, who made sure that she did.

This oversized board book traces a city across the span of a night -- filled with the people, traffic, parks, streets, stores, and buildings that make up the town. The breadth of the urban experience may all be found here: from the bicyclist lazily gliding through the park to the raucous swooshhhhh of traffic; from the clanging crash of construction work to the quiet of a sweeping streetscape as seen from a high-floor apartment building. Vibrant colors that zing with the heat rising from a steaming sidewalk are perfectly matched to a syncopated, sound-filled, chant-again-and-again text. Ingeniously die-cut pages reinforce the experience of the city skyline in a stylish book that represents a tour-de-force performance by Sara Anderson.

Start at the tips of the foamy waves, where the sun glints off the water, and go down to the depths of the sea, where the eel's phosphorescence glows in the dark with otherworldly intensity. Below the waves, there are to be seen, among a myriad of living creatures, the octopus, the snail, and the angelfish. Deeper still are the whales, the lobsters, and the sticklebacks. Resting on the floor are barnacles, pompanos, and eels. Returning to the surface, there are still more magnificently depicted examples of sea life—until the sunny beach and golden sand beckon. A journey through the ocean is imaginatively plumbed in words and pictures. Informative, clear, and graphically lovely, readers of all ages who dive into this book will never look at the sea in quite the same way.

It is not true that toddlers don't like vegetables at least, it won't be true after leafing through this delectable board book. Faster than the pages are turned, youngsters will gobble their celery and carrots! In her uniquely graphic drawings, Sara Anderson conveys through her brilliant use of color the ripeness of a tomato, the elegance of an eggplant. Exactly matching the kinds vegetables to be found in the kitchen and on the table, this book will inspire young children to count, classify, identify, add to their vocabularies, and enlarge their repertoires of favorite foods.