Fran�e Lessac

Follow as life unfolds in the United States and Canada under the Milky Way.

A young boy goes with his best friend to visit the little Caribbean island where he was born.

Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land allotment and Native tribal reorganization, termination (the...

Describes how an Italian immigrant built three unusual towers in his backyard in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Describes scenes along the Mississippi River over the course of a week, beginning in Minnesota when it is a tiny stream and going all the way to the gulf coast of Louisiana. Includes a section of historical information about the river.

Rhyming text and illustrations present the sights of Washington, D.C., from A to Z.

While Mama reads a sleepytime tale at 9 p.m. in Brooklyn, people have a snack in the pantry at 2 a.m. in England, the cat knocks over the samovar at 5 a.m. in Moscow, a family has a barbecue at noon in Australia, and the sun is setting at 6 p.m. in L