Ocean State Libraries

"It's Spring! Kitten and puppies waiting to be adopted abound. Snuggle up and share this heartwarming, true tale of home and family. Children of all ages will love the water color illustrations and sweet lyrical text. Reading "Forever Home" will foster meaningful sharing of your own family pet adoption stories and the wonderful community helpers who care for them. {u200B} Included in the book are activity ideas for the whole family suggesting...

"A little girl named Alice opens on a book on a rainy day and travels around the world through its pages."--

"Bright illustrations paired with interactive call-and-response questions tell of what makes a house a home." --

"Deep in the woods is a house, just a house, that once was--but now isn't--a home. Who lived in that house? Who walked down its hallways? Why did they leave it, and where did they go?"--Page [2] of cover.

Follows a family through seasons and generations as the house to which their immigrant grandparents came is transformed into a home.

"After a long and unsuccessful search, Polka-dot Puppy finally finds a home" --from the publisher.

"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...

A little bunny rabbit hurries past five fat sheep, over train tracks, and across an open field on his way to a special destination.

Tired of his own home, a bear goes exploring, visiting animals around the world in their various habitats.

After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and finally finds "a place that feels like home."