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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal a family's preparations for their Thanksgiving feast, with everyone pitching in to help--including Baby, who sleeps quiet as a mouse.

Neighbors William, Annie, and Thomas are all at their houses, each waiting for something very different and special.

Illustrations and rhyming text present some of the different ways a well-behaved dinosaur can celebrate Christmas.

A young girl wishes her family could be more like her friends' families and subconsciously blames her abuela and her yellow handkerchief, but she slowly grows to appreciate and love the language and culture the handkerchief represents.

When a Masai father in Africa answers his son's questions, the boy learns that his father's love for him is unconditional.

Leila Wayward is a little witch who excels at everything she does. She's the fastest flier, the most cunning conjuror, and the most superb shape-shifter. She has won trophies for potions, herbology, and alchemy--and now she dreams of winning the Magnificent Witchy Cake-off! As the youngest in a long line of masters of the Dark Arts of Patisserie, Leila wants her entry to be perfect. But even with the most bewitching of recipes, she realizes a terrible...

A Japanese boy learns of Christmas when his mother decorates a pine tree with paper cranes.

"Libby and her great-aunt, Lobo, both learn the Pledge of Allegiance--Libby for school, and Lobo for her U.S. citizenship ceremony"--

When a girl is asked where she is from, where she really is from, none of her answers seems to be correct. Not sure how to respond, she turns to her loving grandfather for help. He does not give her the answer she expects. It gives you an even better one. Where am I from?