Teachers can use these books to support elementary students who are getting acclimated to a new school and country.

Like totems, we pass them on to our own children, each book a spell in itself ... in this emotionally weighty story about a little girl’s fight for love and escape. Miss Trunchbull, the vicious ...

By Donna Barba Higuera Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children ... the Holocaust reaches a farm girl trying to help her ailing ...