From the beloved and internationally bestselling author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst comes a collection of wry and witty poems that touch on every aspect of the roller-coaster ride that is childhood. Did you wake up this morning all smiley inside? Does life taste like ice cream and cake? Or does it seem more like your goldfish just died And your insides are one great big ache? From school to family...

In evocative haiku, Michael J. Rosen depicts twenty different breeds of cats--whether mischievous or mysterious, comical or commanding.

When she was five years old, Lucy wrote her first letter to Santa and left it by the plate of cookies; when she was eight, she wrote her last Santa letter--and left it on her mother's pillow.

Celeste Marconi es una niña de once años soñadora, poeta, y coleccionista de palabras. De pronto, una nueva palabra susurrada se filtra en su vida: subversivos. Su amado país, Chile, ha sido tomado por una dictadura militar, y los subversivos - aquellas personas consideradas una amenaza para el nuevo gobierno - corren cada día más peligro. Los padres de Celeste, que son médicos, tienen que esconderse para mantenerse a salvo, y Celeste, desconsolada,...