Best Selling Books by Pat Lowery Collins

A dancer describes how dancing can be performed in a variety of places, including a grassy field or sandy beach, and during such activities as skipping down the stairs, dribbling a soccer ball, or flying a kite.

Are you an artist? Do you see the world around you in a special way? I Am an Artist shows you how simply observing the delights of nature can inspire you to create. Can you name the colors inside a seashell? You''re an artist!

A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe''s customs of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation.

While studying under Vivaldi, three girls in a Venice orphanage forge their own notions of love in a sensuous, engrossing novel told in three narrative voices. It is a longing and search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage renowned for its extraordinary musical program. But for Rosalba, Anetta, and Luisa, the love they seek is not where they expect to find it. Set in the early 1700s in the heart of Venice, this remarkable novel deftly weaves the history of Antonio Vivaldi’s early musical career into the lives of three young women who excel in voice and instrument. Under the composer’s tutelage and care, the orphans find expression, sustenance, and passion. But can the sheltered life of the orphanage prepare them for the unthinkable dangers outside its walls?

In the mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts, twelve-year-old Addie learns a startling secret about her past when she escapes servitude by running away to live in the snowy woods and meets an elderly Wampanoag woman.

On a trip to the aquarium with his brother Jon, Tim finds that his inability to read the many signs gets him in trouble.

A lyrical tale complemented by oil-on-linen landscape illustrations conveys a sense of quiet suspense as a young boy accompanies his father on a woodland tour in the hope of spotting a deer, a shared quest that takes them over dunes and through a marsh into a wooded area filled with captivating wildlife.

Hildy is so angry that she thinks she will hide from her family forever, but they manage to find her and make things right.

" ... chronicles the generations-old art of shipbuilding, and the extraordinary construction of a modern-day schooner.

During the Depression, having discovered that she has the ability to have out-of-body experiences, twelve-year-old Mary Francis tries to use it to deal with the "peculiar domestic situation" caused by her family''s financial plight.

When Turtle tells Squirrel he''d like to fly, Squirrel finds a way to help him--much to Turtle''s dismay!

Text and photographs describe what happens when Missy''s brother Joe is born prematurely and needs special care in the hospital, disrupting family routines and causing Missy to feel confused and left out.

John makes a "pet" of a tumbleweed, considering it to be a friend and missing it when it disappears.

A youngster relates the unusual attributes of his friend, Andrew.

Millie knows her three-year-old cousin will love the way she takes care of him when his parents go away--even though he does kick and spit and scream at her.