Audio

PreS-Gr 2—The picture book written by Laurie Monopoli and illustrated by Wendy Sefcik provides backstory for The Learning Station's popular song, "Tony Chestnut...

Gr 4—7—Twelve-year-old orphan Cirrus Flux has spent his entire life in a foundling hospital with no knowledge of his parents...

Gr 8 Up—Seventeen-year-old Ruby has been abandoned by her father, her older sister, and now her alcoholic mother...

Gr 8 Up—This tale about orphaned sisters in 1890s New York strikes a gothic chord in Michelle Zink's first book (Little, Brown, 2009) in a planned trilogy...

PreS-Gr 2—An eight-and-a-half-year-old boy succumbs to moments of monster fear when he comes home to an empty house one evening...

Gr 7 Up—Filled with music and poetry, The Harlem Renaissance Remembered was originally a performance piece created by Jonathan Gross who plays the piano for this recording...

PreS—Grammy nominee Michele Valeri sings 15 of her original compositions, backed up by Marcy Marxer (ukuleles, congas, guitar, mandolin, churango, percussion, bass) and Cathy Fink (banjo, guitar)...

Gr 5 Up—Louisa May Alcott's charming, although now somewhat dated, companion piece to the perennially popular Little Women highlights the life of the wildest of the March sisters, Jo, now married to "her professor," and presiding as the harried but happy mistress over the Plumfield Estate School—home to a small group of needy boys, relatives, and sons whose mischievous antics and emotional upheavals provide ample opportunities for Alcott to share her personal philosophy about learning and life...

PreS-1—Research has determined that children who are exposed to books and language in the preschool years have a much better chance becoming successful readers when they reach school age...