"All children, regardless of where they live, should have the opportunity to grow up healthy and lead a productive life," writes Melinda Gates in her foreword to this, the latest "A Global Fund for Children Book." As she shares the wrenching statistic that over seven million...
"Cherish baby girls around the world," the back cover rightfully demands. And who could possibly resist the red-cheeked cuddlebug from Russia, the laughing wonder from Peru, the bejeweled bundle from India, the kitty-hugger (never mind the beast himself) from New Zealand, the intrepid explorer (with...
Leave it to the Global Fund for Children (and the always innovative small press Charlesbridge) to offer a colorful new book that uses a clever game of hide-and-seek to celebrate our differences, while sharing our universal sameness. And, of course, novelist/playwright/cartoonist Manjula Padmanabhan also deserves...
Here's another adorable chunky book for the youngest chubby little hands to hold ...
Pictures tell a thousand words ...
Nasreen watches her father being taken away by the Taliban, then loses her mother when she goes out in search of her disappeared husband. Left alone with her grandmother, Nasreen retreats into silence. Her desperate grandmother enrolls Nasreen in a secret school for girls, risking...
