Summary: The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.

"A Stanford psychologist offers a bold new understanding of empathy, revealing it to be a skill, not a fixed trait, and showing, through science and stories, how we can all become more empathetic"--

"When twelve-year-old Trevor accepts his social studies teacher's assignment to come up with a plan to change the world ... Do a good deed for three people and ask them to "pay it forward" to three others who need help." ... Cover p. [4].

Outlines simple, counterintuitive approaches to raising happy, healthy, and successful children through parental demonstrations of respectful examples and child-directed activities that facilitate early independence and problem-solving ...

An inspiring message from the inaugural Folio Prize winner, George Saunders, one of today's most influential and original writers

After being rescued by a flying cat, Alexander the cat decides to make good on a promise to do wonderful things.

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.

Originally copyrighted 1954, renewed 1982. Illus. in color. Horton, the lovable elephant, tries to protect tiny creatures on a speck of dust. An easy reader with delightful verse and pictures.

" This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.

In this story Alice Walker teaches that our love for family and friiends brings us the most powerful peace and happiness of all.