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More More More, Said the Baby

More More More, Said the Baby more books like this

by Vera B Williams

In these stories about three babies and the people who love them, multicultural families display love that spans generations. Colorful gouache illustrations accompany the text.

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A Chair for My Mother

A Chair for My Mother more books like this

by Vera B Williams

After their home is destroyed by fire, Rosa, her mother, and grandmother save and save in order to buy a comfortable chair for all to enjoy. The family's life together is loving and spirited.

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Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart

Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator)

A series of poems tells how two sisters help each other deal with life while their mother is working and their father has been sent to jail.

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Lucky Song

Lucky Song more books like this

by Vera B Williams

A colorful celebration about a wonderful day in the life of a young girl named Evie. On this spectacular day, Evie gets dressed all by herself, flies a kite that her grandmother made for her, has a tasty dinner, plays with her sister, and is sung to sleep by her father. Illustrated with watercolor paintings.

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Scooter

Scooter more books like this

by Vera B Williams

After her parents divorce, Elana Rose Rosen and her mother move to a housing project in a big city. Elana spends her summer days traveling through her new community on her trusty scooter, getting to know her neighbors and the rhythms of life in the city.

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Music, music for everyone

Music, music for everyone more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator)

Rosa, from "A Chair for My Mother," organizes her friends into a band to earn the money her family needs due to her Grandmother's illness. This is a Spanish language version of the book.

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Cherries and Cherry Pits

Cherries and Cherry Pits more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator)

Biddemi, a young African-American girl, shares her rich imagination with the world in these three stories about giving, love, and making art.

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Long Walks and Intimate Talks: Stories, Poems and Paintings

Long Walks and Intimate Talks: Stories, Poems and Paintings more books like this

by Grace Paley, Vera B Williams (Photographer)

This first collaboration of two longtime feminist and antiwar activists melds word and image to create a powerful call for world peace. Paley's poems and short fiction and Williams' watercolours depict the dignity of ordinary lives from El Salvador to the Bronx, from New Hampshire to Vietnam. Scenes and stories of domestic life, solitude, and ...

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Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea

Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea more books like this

by Vera B Williams

This book contains an album of clever postcards and photographs chronicling Stringbean Coe's trip from Kansas to the West Coast in a homemade camper with his big brother, Fred. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1988.

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Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe more books like this

by Vera B Williams

A young girl describes a wonderful canoe trip she took with her cousin and their mothers. She includes instructions for making a fire, tying a knot, putting up a tent, and cooking fruit stew.

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Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Distinguished Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books to Aid the Homeless more books like this

by Franz et al Brandenberg, Michael J Rosen (Editor), Vera Williams (Illustrator)

A collection of stories and poems all centered around homes or special places. Contributors include Richard Egielski, Virginia Hamilton, Vera B. Williams, and Laurence Yep.

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A Chair for Always more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator)

This companion to Williams's Caldecott Honor book "A Chair for My Mother" continues the story of Rosa and her family. When Aunt Ida announces she's having a baby, Rosa's mother and grandmother suggest fixing--or even replacing--their big beloved chair. Full color.

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Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Authors & Illustrators more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator), Various (Illustrator), Michael J Rosen (Editor)

Thirteen authors and seventeen illustrators celebrate the places and things that make up the home, in support of Share Our Strength's (SOS) fight against homelessness.

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Un Sillon Para Mi Mama more books like this

by Vera B Williams

A child for my mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

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WACS: Women's Army Corps more books like this

by Vera S Williams

In the style of her previous work, WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II), author Vera Williams presents an anecdotal and nostalgic history of the Women's Army Corps that was formed in 1942 and had the distinct title of "WACs" until it was absorbed into the regular Army in 1978. First-person accounts of the trials of training, the ...

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Mas Mas Mas, Dijo el Bebe: 3 Historias de Amor more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator), Liliana Valenzuela (Translator)

Reborn as a durable board book, Vera B. Williams' lively tale offers a "trio of gentle vignettes (that) shows three toddlers gathered up and cuddled by grownups"--"Horn Book". Full color.

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Stingbean's Trip to the Shining more books like this

by Jennifer Williams, Vera B Williams

This book contains an album of clever postcards and photographs chronicling Stringbean Coe's trip from Kansas to the West Coast in a homemade camper with his big brother, Fred. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1988.

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Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea more books like this

by Jennifer Williams, Vera B Williams

An extraordinary book designed as an album, filled with the heart-warming postcards and photographs that young Stringbean sent home while on his crosscountry trip to see the Pacific Ocean with his older brother.

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Un Sillon Para Siempre more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator)

Un libro que acompana el Libro de Honor Caldecott "Un sillon para mi mama" Hay ciertas cosas que Rosa sabe. Sabe que se muere de ganas de conocer a su primito, que esta por nacer en cualquier instante en el piso de arriba. Sabe que crecera y se mudara a otro lugar y quiza asista a la universidad y hasta llegue a ser la presidenta de los Estados ...

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A Chair for Always a Chair for Always more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator)

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 ...

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A Chair for My Mother and Other Stories: A Vera B. Williams Audio Collection more books like this

by Vera B Williams

Listen to four stories about "Rosa and Her Family" "A Chair for My Mother" A Caldecott Honor Book "Something Special for Me" "Music, Music for Everyone " "A Chair for Always " plus "Cherries and Cherry Pits" and An Interview with the AUthor

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A Chair for Always/Un Sillon Para Siempre more books like this

by Vera B Williams (Illustrator), Liliana Valenzuela (Translator)

Un libro que acompana el Libro de Honor Caldecott "Un sillon para mi mama" Hay ciertas cosas que Rosa sabe. Sabe que se muere de ganas de conocer a su primito, que esta por nacer en cualquier instante en el piso de arriba. Sabe que crecera y se mudara a otro lugar y quiza asista a la universidad y hasta llegue a ser la presidenta de los Estados ...

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Luftwaffe: A Pictorial History more books like this

by Vera Williams, Eric Mombeek

Using over 400 rare photographs to illustrate the Luftwaffe's operations, from before the Spanish Civil War through to 1945, the researched captions describe the events, people and aeroplanes of the German Air Force. Each section is introduced by first-hand accounts of what it was like to fly and fight in these machines.

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Tres Dias En Una Canoa Roja (Reading Rainbow)

by Vera B. Williams

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Wasps: Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II more books like this

by Vera S Williams

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