Illinois Authors

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York, N.Y. : ©2007.

A young child is comforted by the thoughts of guardian angels through the words of this soothing spiritual lullaby.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York : ©2006.

Counting and dancing go hand in hand at Mambo Jamba's, the place where hippos hokey-pokey and meerkats macarena and ten little chimps do the cha-cha-cha, until Mama Chip says, Time for bed!

At bedtime, a young boy looks forward to falling asleep and dreaming about sailing the ocean of stars with his father.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York : ©2011.

At bedtime, a young boy looks forward to falling asleep and dreaming about sailing the ocean of stars with his father.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York : 2005.

Children learn a way to escape the dreams which scare them.

Summoned to the Great Gorilla Villa by King Big Daddy to meet the newest member of their family, ten gorillas arrive on time using various forms of transportation, including hot-air balloon, taxicab, and pogo stick.

Zeus would rather be anywhere than here--Buffalo Falls, the tiny town his family moved to at the end of the school year. Having left all his friends back in Chicago, and with nothing to look forward to except helping out at his mother's cafe and biking around town with his weird little brother, Zeus is pretty sure this is destined to be the worst summer of his life.

Zeus would rather be anywhere than here--Buffalo Falls, the tiny town his family moved to at the end of the school year. Having left all his friends back in Chicago, and with nothing to look forward to except helping out at his mother's cafe and biking around town with his weird little brother, Zeus is pretty sure this is destined to be the worst summer of his life.

Simon & Schuster Merchand, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012.

Paulist Press, New York : ©2002.

An introduction to the life of Saint Pedro Claver, a seventeenth century Jesuit priest who spent his life caring for slaves in Colombia and working for their freedom.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [Place of publication not identified] : 2009.

Kehl hates pirates. His father, the Warrior Prince, has always told him they were responsible for his mother?s death. So when he is kidnapped by Temoc, the Pirate King, Kehl is more furious than frightened. But Temoc is mapping the vast seas known as the Carrillon and needs Kehl?s cartography expertise. As Kehl spends more and more time with Temoc and his crew, he comes to realize that his father has not been honest with him and that his past is linked to the future of the new world he is mapping.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York, N.Y. : ©2009.

When thirteen-year-old Kehl, fifth son of the Warrior Prince Amatec, is kidnapped by the Fallen King and forced to map the entire Carillon Empire, he also discovers a secret about his own past.

Nixy Bauer, a sixteen-year-old self-made video-game bounty hunter, gets in over her head when she attempts to rescue a game developer's son from a virtual trap--

A little boy promises his beloved friend, an elderly lady, that one day he will fix up her old house--and his words inspire the other people in the neighborhood to pitch in and get it done.

While training to join the ranks of the Queen's legendary army, the Second Guard, fifteen-year-old Talimendra and her new friends Zarif and Chey discover a conspiracy that could bring down the entire Tequendian Empire.

When the Earth guild begins to demand fairer treatment by the queen, Brindl Pacari, an Earth guilder and now Master of Messages for the Princess, must choose sides: join the rebellion, or stay loyal to the crown.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York : ©2008.

Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth-century Caribbean city of Cartagena, works as a translator for a Jesuit priest who tends to newly-arrived slaves and, after working for a Jewish doctor in a leper colony and helping an Angolan boy and his mother escape, he realizes his true calling.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York : ©2008.

Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth-century Caribbean city of Cartagena, works as a translator for a Jesuit priest who tends to newly-arrived slaves and, after working for a Jewish doctor in a leper colony and helping an Angolan boy and his mother escape, he realizes his true calling.

Contains poems about the different people who stop by Marisol's father's music store on a hot summer night, looking for just the right songs to make their hearts fly home.

CHARLESBRIDGE PUBLISHING, [S.l.] : 2019.

Charlesbridge, Watertown, MA : ©2005.

At a busy street market, kids are happily eating ice cream. But disaster strikes when a little dog overturns a spice cart, showering pepper on everyone's ice cream. Will the kids end up crying or cheering? Energetic art and a lift-the-flap feature make exploring language fun.

Charlesbridge Publishing 2011.

Disaster strikes at a street market when a dog overturns a spice cart and showers everyone's ice cream with pepper - Yuck! As the story unfolds in pictures, readers explore the emotions and sounds that children make in different languages. By the end, everyone is yelling -- Hurray! Awards: ALA Notable Children's Books, Bank Street College of Education's Best Books of the Year (Outstanding Merit), Bookbuilders of Boston New England Book Show Winner, CCBC Choices, Nick Jr.'s Best Books of the Year, Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts (NCTE).