Whenever he was afraid, Jareb sang. Singing made him feel better. But it made everyone else feel worse. Jareb's singing was dreadful. With these words, Angela Hunt introduces her unlikely hero--a timid young shepherd who helps his brothers tend sheep on the hills near Bethlehem. In this delightful story, Jareb discovers courage in an exchange encounter with the infant Jesus and begins …
Step into the magical world of Child's Play fairy tales...Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate readers with their delightful illustrations and fun lift-up flaps which really add to the action. The 'flip-up' flaps encourage prediction and discussion, and well-known stories will give young readers confidence.
Pepper and Jake love herding sheep in the little valley where they live. But there's a problem— a big problem. Urk, a giant who lives on a nearby mountain, is big and stinky and doesn't care that dumping dirty laundry water in the nearby stream causes a flood down below every single week. So Pepper and Jake hike to Urk's mountaintop lair to confront him. But there's no reasoning with a giant,…
Each book in this set features a few sentences per page that are accompanied by detailed illustrations. Given the familiar contexts, some of the fairy tales have been reworked or adapted so that students are always surprised and eager to read all the way to the unexpected endings. Freddy tricks the villagers to run to help him when he cries 'Wolf!' even though there is no wolf. One day,…
Years ago in a mountain village called Aldburg, the townspeople had rid the area of wolves because they would eat the town’s livestock when they grew hungry during wintertime. Hoky is the sole survivor of the last wolf pack in the region and, against all odds, gradually becomes friends with a young shepherd named Jacob who works to earn his trust. A tale of respect and love between humankind …