When the sun goes down, Mama sings a lullaby which tells of animals getting ready for the night.

Read Pam Allyn's posts on the Penguin Blog The books to read aloud to children at the important moments in their lives. In What to Read When, award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for children to begin to reflectively engage with and understand the world around them. Not only can parents entertain their child and convey the beauty of language through books, they can also share their values and create lasting connections. Here, Allyn offers parents and caregivers essential advice on choosing appropriate titles for their children—taking into account a child’s age, attention ability, gender, and interests— along with techniques for reading aloud effectively. But what sets this book apart is the extraordinary, annotated list of more than three hundred titles suitable for the pivotal moments in a child’s life. With category themes ranging from friendship and journeys to thankfulness, separations, silliness, and spirituality, What to Read When is a one-of-a-kind guide to how parents can best inspire children through reading together. In addition, Pam Allyn includes an indispensable “Reader’s Ladder” section, with recommendations for children at every stage from birth to age ten. With the author’s warm and engaging voice throughout, discussion questions to encourage in-depth conversations, as well as advice on helping kids make the transition to independent reading, this book will help shape thoughtful, creative, and curious children, imparting a love of reading that will last a lifetime. These Penguin Young Reader's Books are referenced in What to Read When Sylvia Jean: Drama Queen by Lisa Campbell Ernst (Penguin Young Reader’s Group: 2005) Two Is For Twins, by Wendy Cheyette Lewison, illustrations by Hiroe Nakata (Penguin Young Readers: 2006) Remember Grandma? by Laura Langston (Penguin Group (USA): May 2004) Soul Looks Back in Wonder compiled by Tom Feelings (Puffin Books) Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Penguin Books USA, Incorporated: December 1957) When I was Young in the Mountainsby Cynthia Rylant illustrated by Diane Goode (Penguin Young Readers Group: January 1993) Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie DePaola (Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Books, Inc.:1973) Good Night, Good Knight by Shelly Moore Thomas, illustrations by Jennifer Plecas (Penguin Young Readers Group: 2002)

In this inspiring collection of vibrant poems, contemporary American poets speak out on a universal theme: the unbreakable bond shared by parents and their children. With kindness, nostalgia, forgiveness and love, poets recall their parents. Book jacket.

A lullaby about a baby who sails the sky in the crescent moon before returning home to mother.

Set against the lush backdrop of the elite and prestigious Country-club life in Farmington, Connecticut, and the renowed game of tennis at the competitive level, Amy Davis, a 50-year-old divorcee, will soon find out the secret of this town after three girls are murdered. After an accident and arthroscopic knee surgery, Amy is prescribed heavy doses of Oxycotin for pain. She slips into the state of delirium through oxycontin as she attempts to recuperate, and she begins having premonitions and dreams of these murdered girls, going even as far as to have their killer revealed to her through her dreams. The Police don't believe her, her friends don't believe her, and her town does not believe her, but when things start to reveal themselves one by one, Amy's truth is heard. The Witching Hours of the night, (between 1-4am) is when the dream take place and the Devil himself even presents himself in a physical form, talking Amy through the clue in an evil plot twist that will haunt you to the bone and leaving you asking the question, what is the true nature of evil? The Devil himself leads Amy down a path where the wrong man is accused, convicted and put to death by lethal injection. With heavy research for the Innocence Foundation and those who are found guilty of a crime that were innocent, The Witching hours Lullaby tackles the most heinous of atrocities, and ask how can an innocent man be put to death? And what evidence is required legally to find someone guilty? The Witching Hours Lullaby brings forth light to the Innocence Foundation, spiritual beliefs and the devastating effects of Oxycontin on the brain of women over fifty. The Witching Hours Lullaby is caught between dreamscapes, Oxycontin, knowing what is right and wrong and even during the presence of pure evil... having the courage to do the right thing.

Naomi Shihab Nye focuses on ordinary people and ordinary situations, which, when rendered through the poems in Fuel, become remarkable. The poet imagines the border families of southern Texas, small ferns and forgotten books, Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East. Nye has written, "Lives unlike mine, you save me."

Setting the record straight about Arab American culture.