Books in Children's Stories series

A beautiful set of bible stories retold and illustrated for children ages 3-6. Each Bible Story is told in clear and simple language with large print for easy reading. The series has twelve stories from the Old Testament and twelve stories from the New Testament and they are printed in a great portable size, easy to carry around or pop into a bag when travelling. Great for introducing children to new bible stories or re-emphasising some of the favourite lessons.

Jewish Children Translated from the yiddish of Shalom Aleichem by Hannah Berman A curious noise comes from the town, a roaring, a rushing, a tumult. In a moment the face of the world is changed for me. Our farm is a courtyard, our house is a palace. I am a prince, Busie a princess. The logs of wood that lie at our door are the cedars and firs of the "Song of Songs." The cat that is warming herself in the sun near the door is a roe, or a young hart; and the hill on the other side of the synagogue is the mountain of Lebanon. The women and the girls who are washing and scrubbing and making everything clean for the Passover are the daughters of Jerusalem. Everything, everything is from the "Song of Songs." I walk about with my hands in my pockets. The nuts shake and rattle. Busie walks beside me, step by step. I cannot go slowly. I am carried along. I want to fly, to soar through the air like an eagle. I let myself go. Busie follows me. I jump from one log of wood to the other. Busie jumps after me. I am up; she is up. I am down; she is down. Who will tire first? "How long is this to last?" asks Busie. And I answer her in the words of the "Song of Songs": "'Until the day break, and the shadows flee away.' Ba! Ba! Ba! You are tired, and I am not." Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem was a leading Yiddish author and playwright from Ukraine. The musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe.

Children's Short Stories, Book 5 is a collection of three short stories: Blizzard & Snowball, Angel The Great Pyrenees, and Anna The Cockatiel. Fasten your seat belt because Blizzard & Snowball is a non-stop action adventure of a lifetime that takes place in the majestic mountains of Alaska. Angel The Great Pyrenees is a charming true story for children about Angel being lost in Sherman, Texas. A dogcatcher finds her drinking out of a creek. He catches her with a large net and brings her to an animal shelter in Sherman. Angel is adopted by a nice woman and she becomes a guardian angel. Anna The Cockatiel is a delightful children's book narrated by Anna, a female cockatiel, from the time she hatched out of her tiny white egg and popped into this world. A bully named Blue that is a Blue Quaker parrot attacks Anna and pulls out all of her pretty long tail feathers. In order to save Anna from being bullied, her owner has to find her a new home.