Kate Banks
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Kate Banks, Georg Hallensleben
It is night. Inside a house, a child is getting ready for bed. A hall light is switched on, toys and animals are settled in their places. Papa reads a story, Mama comes in to say good night, dreams wait to enter sleep…And if the moon could talk, it would tell of the many different nighttime activities that it sees from its vantage point, outside the house and high, high above.
In this tranquil, evocative picture book, text and pictures illuminate interior and exterior nighttime scenes, showing us what the moon might see-and say, if it could talk.
Kate Banks
What kind of parents would name their child Dillon Dillon?
For his tenth birthday, Dillon’s parents give him a red rowboat with his name painted on the stern: Dillon Dillon. Why did his parents give him a name like that? To Dillon, it seems like the right time to find out. The truth alters everything Dillon has ever known or felt about himself and his family. But with the rowboat Dillon finds a new freedom as he embarks on a journey that takes him back to his beginnings. His discovery of an island and his memorable encounters with a pair of nesting…
Kate Banks
It’s hard for Howie Bowles when his family moves to a new town—what if the kids at school don’t like him? “Just be yourself” is his mother’s advice, but wouldn’t it be easier to be somebody else? Howie doesn’t plan on making his classmates believe that he’s actually a secret agent named Agent Bean Burger, but somehow that’s what happens. Soon everyone is interested in him because he’s a secret agent, and it’s sort of like having friends, except that the other kids still don’t know anything about Howie. And then a case comes along that he has to solve: someone’s…
