From sun up to sun down, spend a day in the life of a dairy cow. Rise at dawn, "big and heavy", and head for the barn, ready to be milked. Then lumber back to the pasture to eat and chew your cud all day long, take a cool drink from the river, and maybe a nap in the shade of a tree during the hot afternoon. "Your ears twitch to clear the flies from your face. You swish them from your back with a long bushy tail." As dusk approaches it's time to head back to the barn for the evening milking. "You graze, you chew, and you rest. It's hard work being a cow." Malachy Doyle's spare text, told in the second person, is quiet, and poetic, and complemented by Angelo Rinaldi's stunning artwork. Mr Rinaldi's beautifully shaded, close-up, and detailed oil paintings are so realistic and lifelike that you'll think you're looking at photographs. Together word and art offer a simple and elegant peek at a cow's life down on the dairy farm. Perfect for youngsters 3-7, Cow is engaging, early non-fiction at its best, and an evocative picture book that shouldn't be missed.

Georgie lives in a home for children with mental problems. He trashes his room and his clothes when things get too much. Georgie feels as if his whole world has been taken away from him when he is told he is moving, but the home itself makes him feel worse. Then he is moved to the last place for kids like him and he starts to make a connection with the world again. But somewhere deep inside his mind is the reason he is at the home and he may not be ready to remember.

This book is incredible. Georgie is the kind of character who gets inside your head and under your skin and makes you realise how lucky most of us are. This book has the kind of depth that I found reading "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson and "Cut" by Patricia McCormick. Like both of these other books "Georgie" is a relatively short book but it feels longer because of the intense emotions that are riddled throughout the story.

This book is amazing and I highly recommend it.

This is a wonderful book with beautiful illustrations! It covers basic gardening techniques for growing runner beans as well as the wonderful relationship between Jody and her grandfather. My own children enjoyed growing their own runner beans up a similar teepee! A true delight for young and old!.....And if you have young "picky eaters," perhaps this will motivate them to try their beans!

A young girl has found a new puppy. He is so new his eyes are not even open. A humorous look at the effort put forth to get the young pup to open his eyes ensues. Julie Vivas' (I Went Walking and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge) illustrations are bright, cheerful, and makes you want to hold a new puppy. Most appropriate for preschool to second grade, but anyone who has ever loved a new puppy will enjoy this great read aloud.