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I'll Follow the Moon (Mom's Choice Award Honoree and Chocolate Lily Award Winner)

12 reviews
Stephanie Lisa Tara

Brown Books, 2005

I'll Follow the Moon
I stumbled across this book quite by accident, and I found it to be a treasure. The verse is lovely and calm, as are the illustrations. It also depicts fairly accurately a remarkable natural phenomenon. As a new mom who longed for a child for many years and eventually adopted internationally, I found the symbolism achingly beautiful. I have since given the book to several friends who have ...

Little Library Mouse (Hollywood Book Festival Award)

6 reviews
Stephanie Lisa Tara

Brown Books, 2006

A Special Ed English teacher's top choice!
Finding innovative and evocative ways to stimulate, inspire children - is the key to effectively teaching special education -- a colleague handed me this big beautiful purple book last week, its joyful large-type rhymes had me giggling. Then I put it to the real test and read it to my students. It is rare that I have such a huge response -- Little Library Mouse instantly became everyone's ...

Snowy White World to Save

4 reviews
Stephanie Lisa Tara

Brown Books Publishing Group, 2007

Great for Exposing Young Kids to Global Warming Problems.
Doesn't frighten kids but really great at telling very young kids the story of the desperate Polar Bear mother and cubs to find food and their changing world. Also has a page that lets kids be pro-active by just doing small things they can control. The illustration is beautiful and it's a good size book. Great gift for kids and for teachers, Pre-k and Kindergardeners, to help spread the global ...

Gwynne, Fair & Shining (Gold Ink Award Winner)

6 reviews
Stephanie Lisa Tara

Brown Books Publishing Group, 2006

Marvelous, recalling a 19th century golden age of children's literature!
The beginning of the golden age in children's literature can be tenaciously placed around the 1860s, when playful/nonsensical verse became infused with "lessons", read aloud as entertainment. These joys of old world story-poem verse, Stephanie Lisa Tara reinvents for us today, recalling a time now passed where tv and movies did not exist and parent and child spent long hours together in ...