San Antonio College Library

"In David Wiesner's whimsical and elegant New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Medal-winner, the events of a delightfully unpredictable Tuesday invite readers to find the potential for the wondrousness in every day. It begins on Tuesday evening, when the frogs suddenly start to float. . . . Thrill to the humorous cascading adventures that follow in a celebration of possibility unbounded--and of unexpected cause and effect. From the genius of international...

This volume explores visual communication by manipulating simple geometric shapes and discussing their effect and the mood they create. By using simple colors and arrangements of basic elements like circles or triangles, the author demonstrates how simple and complex arrangements within pictures work, how they transfer obvious (and more hidden) messages, and how philosophy and psychology within illustrations work. She uses the simple story of Little...

When Brad Meltzer welcomed his first child into the world, he started keeping a list of heroes whose virtues and talents he wanted his son to share when he grew up. Heroes for my son is a collection of 52 extraordinary men and women, some celebrated across the globe and some lesser-known, but each in their own right a hero. The book will include short vignettes, quotations, and black and white photos of each hero.

Biography of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.

The Brandywine is a river, and a valley, running from southeastern Pennsylvania into Delaware, still ""a pastoral landscape dotted with structures of indigenous stone, "" where a Revolutionary battle was fought and fashioned into legend, where a tradition of romantic illustration arose around Howard Pyle and, tempered by the strictures of pure form, continues in the person of Andrew Wyeth. This is auspiciously timed: the issuance of the magnum Wyeth...

"Pantheon fairy tale and folktale library." Over 100 tales of local legend, fairy tales, etc. from rural France.

A collection of poems that celebrates the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark.

Presents haiku poetry about nature and the seasons.

Presents fifty traditional nursery rhymes in comic book format, with illustrations by well-known cartoonists.