Books published by publisher Brown Bear Books

The Shadow Parade is a unique children’s bedtime story which encourages the reader to embrace the power of imagination and the magic in everyday life. It tells the story of a child’s bedtime routine, which each night is delayed by a parade of animals making their way through the child’s room. The animals describe their days and interact with objects in the room as they head off to bed themselves. Once the last animal has disappeared, it is revealed that the child has been using a flashlight to make hand shadow animals dance across the ceiling and walls. The last spread of the book provides illustrations of how to make each of the shadow animals featured.

Illustrating stories such as the Thirty Years War, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and the rise of the Pacific Rim using detailed, double-page maps, this reference set centers on the rise and fall of civilizations, trade, conflict, and cultural developments from the earliest times until today. Readers will follow key events with ease using the strongly supported text and extensive visual maps.

With his favorite time of the year approaching, Olsen could not be more excited about Christmas! Most of all, he loves Christmas music, decorations, Santa, and celebrating Jesus's birthday. But after reading about Jesus and Christmas, he is curious about one thing: when is God's birthday? After a lot of searching, Olsen finally realizes that every day is God's birthday. And when God and Jesus share a birthday on Christmas, it's extra special - even Santa helps celebrate by bringing gifts to children around the world! Always the Most Wonderful Time of the Year is a heartfelt tale of Christmas and the beauty of celebrating the birth of Jesus with those we love most.

With science, the world around us, and STEM principles all informing the value of this series, it brightly describes biomes with detailed photography with a strong concentration on the features that make them unique.Wow sidebars center are compare and contrast driven and Bio-Facts describe the interactions between humankind and the biomes. Statistics are up-to-date and both fascinating and frighteningfrom the fact that 20 tracks of land the size of football fields are destroyed in the Brazilian rainforest every day; this contrasted with the fact that 50% of all known species are found in rainforests. Quizzes are part of the endmatter.

Write one last letter. That's what fifteen-year-old Amelia's psychologist says when she tells him about her time capsule--a My Little Pony lunchbox she's buried in the backyard garden after listening to the preacher on the corner shout about the end of times. One last chance to leave her mark when the world's been shaken to its core by a national tragedy not even the preacher sees coming. One last story of humanity's ability to endure, like in all those historical disasters her mother recites like fairytales. One last reminder of her existence, when her illness has turned her into such a ghost of her former self, one more exhale is all it will take before she disappears completely. One last letter to tell the world how she's lived and who she's loved and what she's trying to survive.