The Excellent Adventures of Billy Bob and Giraffe by Mitchell Swanson __________________________________

The Adventures of Billy and Bob Thank you for your interest One day in the park, Billy makes an unlikely friend: a giant blue monster named Bob. While meeting a monster is always a little scary, Billy manages to strike up a friendship with the monster and finds out they have a lot more in common than he would have guessed, including a love of S'mores, lasagna, and the underdog. Together they go on adventures both big and small that teach them both valuable lessons about accepting others, having friends who are different and trying to see the world form someone else's point of view. Join them on this epic adventure to the park, camping, first sleepover, favorite holidays and more. You will fall in love with their friendship, laugh at their jokes and admire the bravery with which they face the bully with kindness, in every tale. The Adventures of Billy and Bob contains a total of 8 stories, or chapters, that follow this dynamic duo, through their 1st-grade year. Perfect bedtime story that keep your kids excited. Full-color professional illustrations with hilarious scenes. Simple everyday lessons in an easy to understand manner. You and your children are going to love this book.

Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, steps up with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Whether it’s a Fourth of July in rural Maine, the opening game of the 2015 World Series, editorial exchanges with John Updike, a letter to a son, or his award-winning essay on aging, “This Old Man,” what links the pieces is Angell’s unique perceptions and humor, his utter absence of self-pity, and his appreciation of friends and colleagues encountered over a fruitful career unlike any other.

Some travel books authors try to impress the reader with a full sense of the danger and hardship they have undergone. Others are deadly afraid of bragging about their adventures, knowing, for instance, that hundreds of others have been charged by a lion and may be reading their book. In The Land of Footprints, Stewart Edward White attempts to be the ideal travel book author, one who tells the reader what the country, its people, and its animals are really like, "not in vague and grandiose 'word paintings,' not in strange and foreign sounding words and phrases, but in comparison with something they know." The Land of Footprints is the enormous enjoyable, immensely readable memoir of Stewart Edward White's year spent in East Equatorial Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. STEWART EDWARD WHITE (1873-1946) was born in Michigan and lived in California where he became known as the author of many articles, short stories, and books about the state's mining and lumber camps and his explorations around the world. He devoted the last thirty years of his life to writing accounts of his wife's mediumistic explorations of the inner dimensions of life.