Celebrate loved ones with this delightful story. Familyis made of the people you love: mom, dad, foster parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, grandparents, and even friends! Little ones will enjoy exploring these colorful pages filled with diverse family scenarios; and discovering that families come in all shapes and sizes - no one family is alike - and that's what makes us special. Celebrates diverse family situations. Sweet illustrations, simple text, and sturdy board book format is perfect for toddlers. A lovely gift for any occasion.

Our Love Is from Clever Publishing is the perfect way to celebrate the love between parent and child. This sweet rhyme explores the love of family members throughout the year as they engage in activities together during winter, spring, summer, and fall. Children will learn about the four seasons and the various activities that can be enjoyed in each. Young readers will also explore poetry through rhyme and meter as they listen to the verses being read, or read the story themselves. In winter, families spend time playing in the snow, enjoying holiday lights, sledding down hills, and warming up by the fire with a mug of hot chocolate after time outside. Spring brings new flowers and days of flyingkites and looking for shapes in the clouds. In summer, families take walks to the park to watch the animals in the pond, and children play hide-and-seek, swim with friends, and enjoy ice-cream cones to stay cool. Families gaze at the fireflies when it's dark. And the season of fall brings with it cooler weather spent wandering in corn mazes, jumping in leaves, enjoying homemade stew, and decorating the house with pumpkins. And through every season and change that the year brings, the love of family remains as strong as ever!

Recipes for complex meals that come together in no time.Just because you're short on time doesn't mean you have to sacrifice healthy, flavorful homemade food. Thanks to Emilie Raffa's The Clever Cookbook, readers can cut down on cooking time while still creating delicious, complex meals.The highlight of the book is Emilie's incredibly delicious recipes, such as 30-Minute Chicken Piccata, No Sweat Gratin with Brown Rice, Zucchini & Tomatoes and Quick Chicken Stir-Fry with Oven Roasted Broccoli. The recipes are easy and fast, thanks to her clever shortcuts and flavor tricks.Here are some of Emilie's kitchen shortcuts:- Use a wide skillet to cook everything fast (i.e. tomato sauce, pot pie filling and meat sauce).- Cook pasta in less water-it boils faster and the extra starchy cooking liquid creates silky pan sauces. And these are some of her easy taste-boosting tricks:- Save and freeze all parmesan cheese rinds to add to soups and stews for a delicious nutty flavor.- Use the 7-6-5 method for grilling pork tenderloin-sear for 7 minutes, flip and sear for 6 minutes, shut off the heat and let it rest for 5 minutes with the lid closed. Perfectly tender pork every time!Emilie's classic culinary training, knack for creative recipes, savvy shortcuts and flavor tricks will help readers prepare mouthwatering, healthy meals quickly and with ease.

A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent. Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects a great career as a novelist—she's already put Isidore to work on her biography. The only time they leave their rooms is to gather on the old, stained couch and dissect prime-time television dramas in light of Aristotle's Poetics. Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation. But he notices things the others don't, and asks questions they fear to ask. So when tragedy strikes the Mazal family, Isidore is the only one to recognize how everyone is struggling with their grief, and perhaps the only one who can help them—if he doesn't run away from home first. Isidore’s unstinting empathy, combined with his simmering anger, makes for a complex character study, in which the elegiac and comedic build toward a heartbreaking conclusion. With How to Behave in a Crowd, Camille Bordas immerses readers in the interior life of a boy puzzled by adulthood and beginning to realize that the adults around him are just as lost.

When Little Cub falls down, Dad picks her up and kisses her hurt foot, and then carries her on his shoulders. As they travel through their day together, they share many everyday experiences--and when they return home, Little Cub realizes that any day spent with Dad is truly the best day ever! This sweet story of the love between a dad and his child is the perfect way to make story time or bedtime reading even more special.