Books with author Shawn Mitchell

The book "Snowy Days" it is about children getting a much needed break from school due to a Snow storm that hit their city. It will amaze you the talents children have if they want to do something exciting. It had snowed so much it covered the trees, ground and was still coming down. It was very scenic.The children decided they would have a contest with the other children to see who could make the best Snowman in the neighborhood. They used some very beautiful buttons that looked like snowflakes that were very important to the sister. They worked non-stop on this project. Their father once they finished drove all over the neighborhood looking at the other Snowmen and told all the children they had them beat hands down. They were very proud of themselves. It wasn't long before the sun came out and started melting the snowman. The next day the snowplows were out on the streets. The day after the school bus was running again. Their Snow Break was over. However, they have bragging rights at school on The Best Snowman in their neighborhood. Their families were also very proud of there children for all the imagination and hard work.

A little girl named Gabrielle develops low self-esteem in spite of her parent's great love for her. Being bullied at school in addition to the images that she sees on TV and in magazines only makes her feel worse. It is not until a group of wise women share their personal stories with her that Gabrielle discovers that true beauty has little to do with looks and that self-worth has everything to do with God.

Language Chinese, English Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.

This delightful collection of charmingly told animal stories started out as bedtime reading for the author's grandchildren, some ideas of whom contributed to its inspiration. Here you will meet such characters as a little duck who refuses to fly south for the winter with the other ducks because he wants to be independent, Jasper the scaredy-cat who is afraid of everything until he meets little Calico, and a field mouse who constantly exaggerates and never really listens, with unexpectedly dangerous consequences for her family. Interspersed with the stories are funny poems and questions to make you think. Although the animals are frankly humanised, the author's voice is never condescending but supremely natural. Principles to enable a child to cope with life's challenges are communicated in an imaginative and sensitive manner.