Bright April by Marguerite de AngeliLike the month she was born in and named after, April was bright one moment and dark the next. But mostly she was Bright Aprilbecause of her happy family, her Brownie Scout troop, and all her friends in the Philadelphia suburb where she lived. This is Aprils story. It is especially the story of her tenth birthday, which brought the best surprise she could have ever imagined. Marguerite de Angeli has made the life of a specific cultural group as real

The Princess and the Frog

not a poet

The illustrations are gorgeously dreamy and intricately detailed

Since 1926

Butterflies Belong Here is proof that even the smallest of us are capable of amazing transformations

In 1968 she was awarded the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for her outstanding contribution to children's literature

giving them a new richness

Target Age: 3-7

Little Fairy's Christmas and Little Fairy Can't Sleep (all Floris Books)

It was not until Beatrix had printed the book herself that Frederick Warne agreed to publish it

and Days with Frog and Toad

natural history