Essie is smart. She can read hard library books and make cocoa. Amber is brave. She isn't afraid of the rat in the wall or of climbing up in high places. Amber and Essie are sisters and best friends. Together, they can do anything.

A funny book that makes you cry. A sadbook that makes you laugh. A book about two sisters and their family that makes you wish you were part of it--and grateful that you are not. In short, this book is one surprise after another. The only thing that is not a surprise is that Vera B. Williams has created a wholly unforgettable, absolutely wonderful portrait of Amber, Essie, and their world. Open the book. You will never be the same again.

There are some things that Rosa just knows. She knows that she can't wait to meet her new baby cousin, due to be born at any minute right upstairs. She knows that she will grow up and move away and maybe go to college, and perhaps even become the president of the United States. And she knows that the chair—that wonderful, beautiful, beloved chair, the chair for her mother—will always be there.

Always.

Just the way it is. Covered in velvet with roses all over it, ready for who-knows-what new adventure . . .

A funny book that makes you cry. A sadbook that makes you laugh. A book about two sisters and their family that makes you wish you were part of it--and grateful that you are not. In short, this book is one surprise after another. The only thing that is not a surprise is that Vera B. Williams has created a wholly unforgettable, absolutely wonderful portrait of Amber, Essie, and their world. Open the book. You will never be the same again.

There are some things that Rosa just knows. She knows that she can't wait to meet her new baby cousin, due to be born at any minute right upstairs. She knows that she will grow up and move away and maybe go to college, and perhaps even become the president of the United States. And she knows that the chair—that wonderful, beautiful, beloved chair, the chair for her mother—will always be there.

Always.

Just the way it is. Covered in velvet with roses all over it, ready for who-knows-what new adventure . . .

Follow the red canoe from page to page as it journeys down river carrying the family on a camping tour. It's the next best thing to paddling it yourself.

Here are Little Guy, Little Pumpkin,and Little Bird.

Their grownups love then. So will you.

Un libro que acompaña el Libro de Honor Caldecott Un sillón para mi mamá

Hay ciertas cosas que Rosa sabe. Sabe que se muere de ganas de conocer a su primito, que está por nacer en cualquier instante en el piso de arriba. Sabe que crecerá y se mudará a otro lugar y quizá asista a la universidad y hasta llegue a ser la presidenta de los Estados Unidos. Y sabe que ese sillón—ese maravilloso, hermoso y querido sillón—el sillón de su mamá, siempre estará allí.

Siempre.

Así es.

Forrado de terciopelo y salpicado de rosas, listo para quién sabe qué aventura nueva . . .

Un libro que acompaña el Libro de Honor Caldecott Un sillón para mi mamá

Hay ciertas cosas que Rosa sabe. Sabe que se muere de ganas de conocer a su primito, que está por nacer en cualquier instante en el piso de arriba. Sabe que crecerá y se mudará a otro lugar y quizá asista a la universidad y hasta llegue a ser la presidenta de los Estados Unidos. Y sabe que ese sillón—ese maravilloso, hermoso y querido sillón—el sillón de su mamá, siempre estará allí.

Siempre.

Así es.

Forrado de terciopelo y salpicado de rosas, listo para quién sabe qué aventura nueva . . .

Here are
Little Guy,
Little Pumpkin,
and
Little Bird.

Their grownups
love then.
So will you.

Here are Little Guy, Little Pumpkin, and Little Bird.

Their grownups love then. So will you.

When Bidemmi starts to draw, her imagination takes off. Enter her world, look at her pictures, and watch her stories grow and grow. You will never forget her.

A book of love and tenderness filled with the affirmation of life.

The jar of coins is full. The day has come to buy the chair - the big, fat, comforable, wonderful chair they have been saving for. The chair that will replace the one that was burned up - along with everything else - in the terrible fire.

A book of love and tenderness filled with the affirmation of life.