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Books : Children's Books : Authors & Illustrators, A-Z : ( T ) : Tomes, Margot
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Everyone knows about Paul Revere's big ride to Lexington. But not everyone knows the harrowing details and narrow escapes along the way. Did you know that Paul Revere forgot his spurs on his famous ride. Or that he whittled false teeth to make extra money? A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Full color.
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A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
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All King George the Third ever wanted was for everyone to be as conscientious as he was about obeying the rules! After all, he followed the rules for being a good king: he married a princess, he had heirs, he was careful with his country's money . . . so why were those pesky Americans causing so much trouble? A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an IRA/CBC Children's Choice Book. Full color.
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Christopher Columbus counted on finding gold and spices when he set sail to discover a new route to the Indies, but all he got was parrots, naked natives in grass huts, and mosquito bites. But that didn't stop him from making more trips across the sea. What he never expected was that he'd discover a whole new world. Jean Fritz makes history accessible once more in this wry biography of a legendary explorer. An ALA Notable Book, A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, A Booklist Notable Children's Book of the Year, and an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.
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The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920s.
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Someone is planning to kill George Washington, and young Phoebe Fraunces is trying to save his life. Phoebe gets a job as George Washington's housekeeper, but her real job is to work as a spy. She listens and watches very carefully, and she meets her father every day to tell him what she has learned. One day Phoebe's father tells her that Washington is planning to leave town in a few days, and the person plotting against him will act before then. Phoebe is very frightened, but she is determined to figure out who is after Washington before it's too late. . . .
"This episode drawn from the Revolutionary War is related with historical accuracy and suspense and illustrated with finesse." (School Library Journal)
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A brief biography of Patrick Henry tracing his progress from planter to statesman.
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Little Polly Flowerdew lives with her two maiden aunts, and she is absolutely sure that something special is going to happen this Christmas. She leaves her bedroom window open on Christmas Eve, just in case the three wise men decide to come visit. When she wakes up on Christmas morning, more than one miracle seems to have taken place.
A moving, lyrical, and endearing chapter book, celebrating the magic as well as the mystery of Christmas, this is Godine's first title by Elizabeth Goudge, mistress of the art of storytelling, and it's charmingly illustrated with ink drawings by Margot Tomes. It is a perfect Christmas read-aloud for young children and their parents.
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Hetty feels grownup when Papa and Mama allow her to go by herself to Birdie's Emporium to buy some eggs.
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Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and family from all sorts of dangers and evil spells. These stories and many others like them were gathered by scholars from all the countries of Europe, but are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, innocent, and passive.
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Given some pumpkin seeds by his older brothers, Johnny plants them and makes a scarecrow from a witch hazel branch, an old dress, and an old bonnet. From that night on, Witch Hazel stands guard over the best pumpkin of all. Then on the night of the Harvest Fair beneath a harvest moon, Johnny learns Witch Hazel's true magic. Full color.
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Looking for a soup bone on Halloween, a little old lady finds a hungry skeleton instead.
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Depicts the indomitable spirit of a young girl, Tempe Wick, as she saves her beloved horse from the mutinous soldiers of Jockey Hollow during the American Revolution. Reissue. SLJ. H.
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On a hot, humdrum day Ty meets a man who, using a washboard, comb, spoons, and pail, fills that night with music.
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A new edition of a classic Slavic fairytale featuring a charming, but very determined, heroine includes beautifully evocative illustrations by an award-winning artist. Reissue.
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Perfect for sharing between parent and child, this book is filled with some of the most popular childhood songs and games--"I'm a Little Teapot," "The Eensy Weensy Spider," and more. Full color.
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A clever lass, in need of a meal, shows some stingy villagers how to make soup starting with a "magic" stone.
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The fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish.