Most Popular Books by Florence Parry Heide

While working part-time at a carnival, the Spotlight detectives discover a plot to keep the carnival from staying in their town.

An adventure-deprived young boy''s neglectful parents and abusive servants receive their just desserts.

A collection of poems about surviving daily life presented from a child''s point of view.

A young mouse wants to be a bird and sets out to transform himself.

Ernest always does what his mother asks...and never has any fun. When a new boy moves in next door, Ernest''s mother encourages her son to make friends. But the new neighbors seem a little bit...strange--monstrous, even. Obeying Ernest''s new friend Vlapid''s mother means Ernest must do things he''d never dare try at home. And it''s fantastic! Veteran children''s book author Florence Parry Heide and her daughter Roxanne Heide team up with Kyle M. Stone to create a gleefully subversive take on the traditional new neighbor story. Lots of energy and mayhem, and a cool gothic approach to the illustrations make this a great choice for Halloween and all year round.

A young Egyptian boy describes the city of Cairo as he goes about his daily work and waits for the evening to share a special surprise with his family.

Caught between her mother''s fashionable world and her own deep-felt values, Sara must make a painful choice.

With the help of her aunt, Florence is finally able to face a problem she has repressed for years and adjust to the changes in her life.

To a little boy the fire-escape landing is his castle and the center of all his daily activities.

Collects the stories of Treehorn, a boy to whom very strange things keep happening which adults, from his parents to the meter reader, do not seem to think are noteworthy.

Explains the concept of God''s control over all aspects of our lives.

Records the experiences and sensations of a blind black boy as he maneuvers in his small world.

A collection of twenty-one humorous poems, about monsters and their ilk.

There are many things we cannot see but know are there: the sun at night, the flower in the seed, birds inside their eggs--and so it is with God''s presence.

Beasley, a rather portly hippopotamus, is afraid that he is too huge to be good at anything, until he enters a contest he simply cannot lose.