Books with title The Little Drummer Girl

READ! READ! READ! That is the author's favorite chant and encourages every one of every age to do it. One reason, she likes to point out, is by reading you can go around the world without leaving your house. Kittie has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia. Her life started in Minnesota, a position with an international airline caused her to transfer to Florida, retirement allowed her to move to Alabama and she now lives in Georgia.This book covers MANY of her favorite topics. First is Jesus Christ. Second is Christmas; third are children of the world. The fourth, she says with a laugh is music. She is tone deaf and cannot carry a tune at all. She does not even sing in church for fear the walls will collapse. She was holding her cat once, and started singing. The cat let out a meow and jumped out of her arms.Even though she does not have children of her own, her fascination with children of the world comes from hosting foreign exchange students. Her family has been doing it since 1968. She has hosted children from Thailand, Spain, Austria and Germany.Another topic that is near and dear to her heart is Type I diabetes. Kittie has had it since 1951 and thanks her parents for giving her the right attitude about it. She loves to talk to nervous parents with new diabetic children and explain that life has NOT stopped; just a more conservative way of living might be called for. That topic will be another book in the future.

One little girl can change your life forever.In The Little Girl, a Chinese bachelor adopts an abandoned baby. He raises her, experiencing the joys and trials of fatherhood. As the girl comes of age, the father realizes that he can't take care of his daughter forever, so he arranges a marriage for her. He suffers through a deep time of loneliness but in the end is rewarded.Each vignette, beautifully illustrated by Fenlin Lee, moves the reader through the rhythms of ordinary life: work, play, mealtime, gift-giving. When viewed over the characters' lifetime, the extraordinary comes to light and father and daughter show themselves to be heroic. Hovering nearby, usually out of sight, is the greater hero who assures children everywhere that someone is always watching over them.Author Phil Wong's personal experience with orphans inspired The Little Girl. The son of Chinese immigrant parents, Wong adopted two boys from Vietnam, and was indelibly moved by the orphans he had to leave behind. He also wrote the book in response to China's sociological crisis: millions of baby girls in China are abandoned due to the one-child policy and a cultural preference for sons. This has led to a gender imbalance that threatens China. New Earth Enterprises plans to market The Little Girl in China, hoping to turn the hearts of mothers and fathers to their daughters and to equalizing the gender imbalance in coming generations.The Little Girl is intended for a variety of audiences. Adoptive families will find the story unique among children's books about adoption because it is set entirely in China, seamlessly affirming adoptive children without forcing upon them the anxieties that multiracial families often expect. Educators will value the depiction of everyday Chinese life. Parents will resonate with the story's poignant pictures of loss and redemption. Children will see themselves reflected in the daily adventures of the little girl.

Ever wanted something you couldn't have? Or felt like everyone else has it easier than you do? The Little Big Girl tells the story about a little girl who wants to grow up as quickly as possible. Everyone around her is bigger and stronger and can do the things she wishes she could do. Through a series of adventures she soon discovers being BIG isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and being little isn’t all that bad. She learns that everyone is unique and special in their own way.

In the second book of the Wild Magic trilogy, courageous young Mup and her family are trying to heal and restore the kingdom when they uncover an ancient and powerful anger.The old queen and her raggedy witches have fled Witches Borough, and Mup’s family has moved into the cold, newly empty castle. But the queen’s legacy lingers in the fear and mistrust of her former subjects and in the memories that live in the castle’s very walls. While Mup’s mam tries to restore balance to a formerly oppressed world, Mup herself tries to settle into her strange new home with her dad, Tipper, and Crow. When an enchanted snow blankets the castle, Mup’s family is cut off from the rest of the kingdom, and the painful memories of the old queen’s victims begin to take form, thanks to a ghost whose power may be too much for even Mup and Mam to handle. Celine Kiernan weaves a timely and essential truth into the second book of her trilogy: that dismantling oppression means honoring the pains of the past, and perhaps the most potent magic of all is encouraging joy and hope wherever possible.

In the second book of the Wild Magic trilogy, courageous young Mup and her family are trying to heal and restore the kingdom when they uncover an ancient and powerful anger.The old queen and her raggedy witches have fled Witches Borough, and Mup’s family has moved into the cold, newly empty castle. But the queen’s legacy lingers in the fear and mistrust of her former subjects and in the memories that live in the castle’s very walls. While Mup’s mam tries to restore balance to a formerly oppressed world, Mup herself tries to settle into her strange new home with her dad, Tipper, and Crow. When an enchanted snow blankets the castle, Mup’s family is cut off from the rest of the kingdom, and the painful memories of the old queen’s victims begin to take form, thanks to a ghost whose power may be too much for even Mup and Mam to handle. Celine Kiernan weaves a timely and essential truth into the second book of her trilogy: that dismantling oppression means honoring the pains of the past, and perhaps the most potent magic of all is encouraging joy and hope wherever possible.

Even a good little girl can turn into a monster when her busy parents don't pay attention!Miranda is a good little girl. She understands that her working parents are often too busy to keep their promises. But enough is enough. When the waffles at the weekly Saturday Family Waffle Breakfast are replaced by yucky eggs and bacon, well . . . Miranda's alter ego and new friend, Lucretia, bubbles to the surface. Now, thanks to Lucretia, Miranda is getting exactly what she wants, and boy does she like it! Her poor parents don't know what's become of their good little girl. Soon even Miranda thinks that Lucretia is mean and bossy, and she wants to take control. But Lucretia likes being in charge, and good little Miranda isn't exactly sure how to become herself again.