Do you believe in magic? In this whimsical story of family and love, Kisa the cat shows Johanna the strength of her voice and the magic of family, including the family you choose. We have crafted this audio story to include some sound effects, music, and endless opportunities for creativity. This story can be used to help with sleep time, activity focus, or the simple joy of listening to a well-told tale. Kisa the Cat is suitable for an age range from 5 – 9 years old, and we hope some of us big kids who appreciate the art of storytelling might enjoy it too.
We at LMG Creative are storytellers who enjoy crafting tales that light imagination and inspire. Adapted from an Icelandic folk tale by Nora Lang for the Brown Fairy Book, originally attributed to Andrew Lang (but we’re acknowledging it was his wife Nora who did the actual writing.) Further adapted by Rose Hastreiter and Rachel Ivanyi and narrated by Rose Hastreiter. Published by LMG Creative.ca
The Adventures of Little Nenia is a series of beautifully written and illustrated children’s books, aged 4 to 8, which help children understand the world around them, their feelings, emotions and dilemmas. The protagonist, Nenia, talks about her everyday adventures, which sometimes are funny and adorable, and sometimes – full of fear.
Books about Nenia are a perfect form of reading and watching together before going to sleep, during travels or fun family time.
Every child will find a piece of themselves in Nenia, while finding out how to properly react to new, completely unknown situations.
Nenia vs the Night Monsters is the first part of the series. More stories are currently being prepared for publication.
A hilarious Halloween story about the bear from Peru, performed by Julie Walters, based on the Emmy award-winning TV series – The Adventures of Paddington.
It’s Paddington’s first ever Halloween. Instead of trick or treating, Paddington decides it would be nicer to go ‘treat or treating’ around Windsor Gardens dressed up as a pigeon. His grumpy neighbour Mr Curry refuses to join in the Halloween fun… or does he?
'One of the best-loved and most famous characters in southern literature springs to larger-than-life size thanks to Thomas Becker's inspired delivery.'-- School Library Journal
Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence -- when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him -- to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He grew up in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal. Sam quit school at the age of twelve to become a journeyman printer. This was to be the first of many occupations, including a river boat pilot, an officer in the Confederacy, a silver prospector in Nevada and a journalist. In 1865 his fame as an American humorist was launched with The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. He once wrote of his readers, 'To simply amuse them would have satisfied my dearest ambition.' He died April 21, 1910.
The sun shines on Tom Sawyer. The idealized childhood of this fictional hero, based on Mark Twain's own early life along the banks of the Mississippi, is filled with robust good humor and high-spirited adventures. Yet there is also an in-depth experience of the central South of the 1840s'its dialects, superstitions, and social values. While romping through fun-filled fantasy, Tom Sawyer shows how morally complicated real life can be.
A shy small town girl who only had her mother soon realizes the joy of having a special friend after moving to the big city. This is a fastastic little book about friendship. Angela Ellington is a young author born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. She has two daughters and loves writing about her experiences. She began writing after having interesting experiences in her life.
Adept at portraying Latino teenage culture, author Gary Soto has won many honors, including an ALA Best Book Award for his young adult novels. After an East Fresno student is murdered, his mind leaves his body. Now he must get used to being an invisible spirit-one who watches his friends and family deal with his death.
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, with a complete collection of the funniest and most touching Alvin Ho books to date.
Lenore Look's touching, drop-dead-funny book about an Asian American second grader—with pictures by New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham—has tons of boy appeal and is great for reluctant readers. The previous books in the series, Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things and Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters, have received rave reviews. "Alvin's a winner," declares the New York Post, and Newsday says, "The novel . . . shares with Diary of a Wimpy Kid the humor that stems from the hero's Herculean efforts to manipulate the world around him in his favor, without all the facts at his disposal." Perfect for beginning and reluctant readers alike, Alvin Ho perfectly captures the trials and tribulations of boyhood.
It's a bright and beautiful spring day, and Pearl, a pig, is dawdling on her way home from school. Most unexpectedly, she strikes up an acquaintance with a small bone. "You talk?" says Pearl. "In any language," says the bone. "And I can imitate any sound there is." (Its former owner was a witch.) Pearl and the bone immediately take a liking to each other, and before you know it she is on her way home with the bone in her purse, left open so they can continue their conversation. Won't her parents be surprised when she introduces her talking bone!
But before that happy moment comes, the resourceful bone must deal with a band of highway robbers in Halloween masks and, worse, a fox who decides that Pearl will be his main course at dinner that night. And deal it does, with gambits droll and thrilling.
William Steig, incomparable master of the contemporary picture book, has never been better than in The Amazing Bone.
The Amazing Bone is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, a 1977 Caldecott Honor Book, and a 1977 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Picture Books.
Kimberly Willis Holt's The Ambassador of Nowhere, Texas is a stunning post-9/11 companion to the National Book Award-winner When Zachary Beaver Came to Town.
Decades after the Vietnam War and Toby’s life-changing summer with Zachary Beaver, Toby’s daughter Rylee is at a crossroads—her best friend Twig has started pushing her away just as Joe, a new kid from New York, settles into their small town of Antler. Rylee befriends Joe and learns that Joe’s father was a first responder on 9/11. The two unlikely friends soon embark on a project to find Zachary Beaver and hopefully reconnect him with Rylee's father almost thirty years later.
This beautiful middle grade novel is a tribute to friendships—old and new—and explores the challenges of rebuilding what may seem lost or destroyed.
Christy Ottaviano Books
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
