Eugenie Fernandes

"In this vibrantly illustrated picture book, a boy and a dog share a special friendship and a love of surfing."--

"Mimi's fictional village is like thousands of real villages in the developing world, where health care, especially among infants and children, is poor or uneven. As a result, every day, 21,000 children under the age of five die, most of them from diseases that could have been prevented with basic health care."--Front jacket flap. "Mimi Malaho and her family help bring basic health care to their community. By making small changes like sleeping under...

Everything seems to go wrong for Melinda.

Examines many different jobs performed by working mothers, including counting money in banks and building bridges.

Sammy and his pet dog, Chocolate go off frogging! They've never caught one yet, but they're sure that tonight is the night! The chorus of croaks lead them to the pond, but try as they might, they can't find any frogs at all. Eventually, they give up and lie down. And just as they're enjoying the frog-song and drifting into "frogness"-- the frogs come out flying! But the frogs are too fast and slippery for Sammy and Chocolate to catch! Finally, "hunt...

Two families discover that despite outward differences, they are really very much alike.

David's little sister, Liz, proves that she is more than just a pest when she rescues a baby from walking over a bed of sea urchins at the beach.