Marion Arbona

While on her walk home from school, a young girl passes by many different windows and imagines what is happening inside.

Sam is so frustrated waiting his turn at the playground that a Temper shows up. Within seconds, the beastly, wild thing clears the place, and Sam happily plays alone with his new pet. But his Temper follows him everywhere, causing more and more trouble, until Sam realizes he needs to put a stop to it. How is the question … Kids will laugh at the relatable situations, while parents and teachers will enjoy the chance to talk about pet Tempers and...

"While banished to a dusty study one day "to think things over", a boy pulls a book off a shelf and with great reluctance begins to read. As the afternoon passes, the story nabs him and carries him away. Before long, this good little book becomes his loyal companion, accompanying him everywhere ... until, one day, the book is lost. Will this bad little boy get back his good little book? Will the good little book survive on its own without a proper...

When Robin's father leaves for a long business trip, Robin is overcome by sadness ... until gifts start showing up on the clothesline outside his house that only his father would know to give! Gifts continue to arrive for Robin during his father's absence but the gift giver turns out to be not who Robin thinks!

Somewhere off the coast and around the corner there are two islands. One island is made mostly of stones and the other mainly of sand, and that's where the problem began.

Young Nye doesn't understand why the people on her Island of Sand work so hard to build beautiful sandcastles every day if they are destined to be ruined by the stones catapulted over by the people of the Island of Stones every evening. When she asks "Why?"

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Je m'appelle Imarvaluk. Dans ma langue, l'inuktitut, cela veut dire le chant des vagues. J'aime mon nom, mais je n'aime plus la mer. Je me méfie d'elle depuis qu'un esprit mauvais l'a envoûtée. La mer est devenue un monstre qui dévore lentement l'île de Sarishef, o nous vivons depuis toujours. C'est une toute petite île près du cercle polaire, entre la Russie et l'Alaska. Dans quelques jours, notre maison sera déplacée au centre de l'île....

There's an invisible creature in the waves around Sarichef. It is altering the lives of the Iñupiat people who call the island home. A young girl and her family are forced to move to the center of the island for refuge from the rising sea level. Soon the entire village will have to relocate to the mainland. Heartbroken, the young girl and her grandfather worry: what else will be lost when they are forced to abandon their homes and their community? Addressing...