Freddy the Frig lives a carefree life in the forest with his colorful friends: Horace the Owl, Chester the Chipmunk and two rabbits named Snowball and Whitey. When Freddy ignores his friends advice to prepare a warm place to spend the winter, he soon finds himself in terrible trouble. No one seems to be able to help poor Freddy until a familiar and beloved figure graces the night sky above Freddys forest. A warm tale about friendship, grace and the spirit of giving, Freddy the Frogs First Christmas is sure to delight.
The story of Freddy's First Christmas centers on a friendly field mouse named Freddy. Freddy has many bird friends and is envious of their ability to fly. When the weather turns cold, Freddy seeks shelter in a nearby house where he meets a Christmas tree angel named Angie. Angie suffers from old tattered wings but is otherwise a fine angel. On Christmas Eve, Freddy finds a misplaced letter to Santa from Billy, the boy who lives in that house. Freddy devises a plan to use his bird friend feather collection to repair Angie's wings so they can fly to the North Pole and deliver the lost letter to Santa in time to save Christmas for Billy. But once airborne, they become lost but are saved by a shooting star named Scooter who whisks them to the North Pole where Santa saves the day. In the process of helping Billy and Angie, Freddy learns that by helping others, he too was rewarded by friendship and realizing his dream of flying.
The Classic Guide That Helps You Select the Books the Child You Know Will Love In this third, fully revised and updated edition of The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children, the children's book editor of The New York Times Book Review personally selects and recommends books for children of every age. The most comprehensive and authoritative book of its kind has been completely updated for the new millennium. It contains hundreds of new entries, many expanded descriptions, and notations of additional companion and related titles -- more than l,700 in all. The best-loved classics of the twentieth century are included, as well as a thoughtful selection of outstanding titles from the last decade. Six sections are organized according to reading level: Wordless, Picture, Story, Early Reading, Middle Reading, and Young Adult. In addition to a summary of the book, each entry provides the essential bibliographic information you need to find a book in your local library or bookstore, including title author and/or illustrator hardcover and/or paperback publisher and publication year major awards related titles The unique and most popular feature of the guide is its system of special indexes -- more than sixty in all. They make it easy for parents and grandparents, teachers and librarians, even children themselves, to match the right book to the right child. Browse through the indexes and find titles for every interest and mood: picture books about cats, mice, or dinosaurs for babies; funny books to read aloud to toddlers; series about family life or school or fantasy adventures for a middle-grade child; books on divorce or death; and coming-of-age novels just right for someone starting junior high school. There are also indexes for books about minorities and religion, an age-appropriate reading-level index, and much more. Lavishly decorated with more than three hundred illustrations from representative titles, the guide also features extra-wide margins for notes on which of your children liked which book, at what age, and why. Thus the guide becomes a family reading record as well as an invaluable resource you'll use again and again.
