There was an old lady who's ready for school!That lovely old lady has returned just in time for the first day of school. Now she's swallowing items to make the very best of her first day back. And just in time for the bus... With rhyming text and funny illustrations, this lively version of the classic song will appeal to young readers with every turn of the page--a fun story for the first day of school!

Brought to life by colourful and endearing illustrations, this nursery song and rhyme are presented in an infant-friendly cloth book format.

The thirteen short stories show the life and challenges of a group of Romanian and Romanian Jew friends after they escape Romania of Ceausescu. Their destinies brought them first to Israel and subsequently to Canada or USA. The main characters are Dan and Vera, a couple struggling to come to terms with immigration, assimilation, and with Dans mild borderline personality disorder. Veras struggle to keep the balance in life and the sanity in her family as a first-generation immigrant is also shown. The stories are fiction inspired by real life.

From warrior women to female deities who control the cycle of life, female characters in Native American literature exhibit a social and spiritual empowerment that is quite different from the average Pocahontas we are used to seeing in mainstream literature. This work argues that a tribal construct of gender relations, where the relationship between male and female roles is complementary rather than hierarchical, accounts for the existence of these empowered female characters in Native American literature. Focusing on the work of four of the twentieth century's most famous Native American authors, Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, Hollrah suggests that it is important to evaluate Native American literary female characters in a cultural paradigm that is less Euro-American and more compatible to the complementarity of Native American culture.

Everyone in the Opera Populaire knew about the infamous Opera Ghost. They all respected and feared his word. And when he was presumed dead after the chandelier crash, all of Paris rejoiced. But behind the mask that the world was shown, Erik had a life. In a world where appearance is everything, he had been shunned from birth all because of his deformed face. But perhaps there are some out in the world who had not judged him by looks alone. There are many secrets about his life that he never shared, not even with the few who dared to know him closely. The Phantom had a past and now he has a future. And perhaps, in that future, he will have another chance at happiness. Lauren Coker dives into the world of the rejected, lost man named Erik in her companion novel to the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Her story tells of the Phantom's lonely life, his everlasting love, and his broken heart. But above all else, The Phantom's Lullaby tells of hope. Hope for the life and for the love that he had been forever denied.

London. Christmas, 1653. The king has been beheaded. Oliver Cromwell rules England. Cromwell’s Puritan Parliament has banned Christmas, declaring it a pagan holiday. Anyone caught celebrating the Twelve Days of Christmas risks arrest. Strong-willed and kind-hearted, Merry O'Cork is a young midwife with big problems. She is called late one night in a snowstorm to deliver the baby of Captain Javier’s wife. Tragically, his wife dies giving birth to a healthy baby boy. Merry suspects foul play. She must also fight off her ne’er-do-well husband, a gambler and rogue, face her growing attraction for the captain, and defend her reputation as a midwife. Follow the mystery that unfolds during the 12 days of Christmas revealing many suspects with motives that keeps you guessing until the very end.

The dragons are reawakening. All the signs indicate as much. The duration of the spell that forced the beasts into magically prolonged slumber has nearly elapsed. The fanatical Cult of the Wyrm, secretly worshiping the power of the creatures throughout the dark centuries, has come out of hiding and is murdering those whom it believes have the power to reinstate the spell. And the now-forgotten caverns where the wyrms were confined so many centuries ago shake with the stirrings of the restless dragons. A mismatched group of would-be heroes finds itself in the possession of one of the few surviving copies of the spell, the "Dragon's Lullaby." Will this group be able to overcome their own failings long enough to survive to cast the "Dragon's Lullaby" and save the world from the depredation of the dragons? Shadowbender does not think so, but they are resolved to do so or (what's more likely) die in the attempt.