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Name: My Grandma Lives in Florida
Brand: Ed Shankman
SKU: 9781933212357
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My Grandma Lives in Florida

$17.99

Journey Around Philadelphia from A to Z

$17.95

Journey Around Chicago from A to Z

$17.95

Charlie on the M.T.A.

$15.95

Ipswich: Stories from the River's Mouth

Rockport, Massachusetts

Boston, All One Family

$27.95

Boston Balloonies

$14.95

Lighthouses of New England

Pilgrim Returns to Cape Cod

$21.95

Mysteries and Adventures Along the Atlantic Coast

$21.95

Journey Around Cape Cod and the Islands Cookbook

$14.95

New England Rediscovered

Revolutionary Sites of Greater Boston

$14.95

Picturing Rhode Island

$29.95

Boston's Emerald Necklace

$14.95

The Berkshires

$29.95

Glass Plates and Wooden Boats

$50.00

Quite a Sightly Place

$29.95

Cape Cod Invasion!

$17.95

Maine Places, Maine Faces

The Sound of Our Town

$24.95

My Provincetown

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My Grandma Lives in Florida

9781933212357

$17.99

This sunny, happy, and lovingly humorous story follows a child alligator--who lives in NYC--as he visits his grandma in her Florida home. I love my grandma and grandma loves me, he says, as they visit the beach, and theme parks, and, best of all, walk and talk and enjoy each other's company. Everyone will find something in the story to remind them of their own relationships with beloved grandparents or grandchildren. With bouncing rhymes and colorful illustrations, grandparents, parents and children are sure to love reading this story again and again!

When we go inside, grandma gives me a kiss.

In fact there's no place on my face she will miss

I may wriggle and giggle and grumble and hiss,

But only a grandma can kiss you like this.

Author Ed Shankman and illustrator Dave O'Neill began creating their award-winning children's books in New England, with stories on Boston, Cape Cod, Maine, and Vermont. In 2011 they turned their attention to New Orleans, Louisiana, and in 2013 they travel to the Sunshine State, Florida!

Journey Around Philadelphia from A to Z

9781933212289

$17.95

Next stop, Philadelphia! That's the call from author-illustrator Martha Day Zschock, who has taken children and their delighted parents on Journeys Around Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Chicago, Maine, Nantucket, and Cape Cod since starting this bestselling series in 1999. Zschock is not only a brilliant artist but also a committed educator, whose books are embraced by teachers and principals nationwide. These are far more than alphabet books. Each page is headed by an alliterative sentence that evokes an important theme. For example, Philadelphia's A page, featuring Benjamin Franklin, is headed Aphorisms and advice appear in the almanac. A playful factoid at the bottom of each page expands on the theme. (Did you know that the aphorism Haste makes waste is traceable to Poor Richard, i.e. Franklin?) In each city she visits, Zschock thoughtfully looks beyond the tourist attractions to the community residing there. For example, here the N page explains how Neighborhoods define urban nature. The O page describes how Old Order Amish obey the Ordnung, while the U page celebrates Philadelphia's stop on the Underground Railroad that helped enslaved African Americans escape the South before the Civil War. Now the second leading history destination in the U.S. (after Washington D.C.), Philadelphia is the perfect city for this thoughtful, beautiful series.

Journey Around Chicago from A to Z

9781889833859

$17.95

Next stop, Chicago! That's the shout from conductor Martha Day Zschock, who has taken children and their delighted parents on Journeys Around Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Maine, Nantucket, and Cape Cod since starting this bestselling series in 1999. Hop aboard the L, circle the Loop, board a water taxi, walk the waterfront! From the Lincoln Park Zoo to Wrigley Field, from the Magnificent Mile to Navy Pier, Journey Around Chicago from A to Z takes readers on a tour of the Second City that is second to none. Over 250,000 copies of Zschock's work are in print, perhaps because Zschock is not only a brilliant artist but also a committed educator, whose books are embraced by teachers and principals nationwide.

Charlie on the M.T.A.

9781938700422

$15.95

Do you know why the transit fare card in Boston is called the CharlieCard? Young readers will find out, and should bring an extra nickel along, when they hop aboard the "T" to follow Charlie through the streets of Boston in 1949. The full-page magical illustrations of Caitlin Marquis will take readers on a ride above and below the streets of Boston as they were in Charlie's time, zooming past familiar landmarks--many still standing, some long gone--wondering all the while, will Charlie ever return? Julia M. O'Brien-Merrill sets the story straight using original historical documents and the original M.T.A. song lyrics of the mayoral campaign song, written by Bess Lomax Hawes and Jackie Steiner, for her father Walter A. O'Brien, Jr. A timeline at the end of the book has juicy tidbits of Boston's history surrounding this time-honored folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio, and will inform and enthrall readers young and old.

Women of the Sea

9781889833781

$19.95

The women in Edward Rowe Snow's life -- his mother, his wife, and his daughter -- were all-important to him. So it's not surprising that the master of New England maritime lore dedicated an entire book to heroines of the deep.Ever since the beginning of time, women have played a far greater part in the lives of men, both ashore and at sea, than the average man cares to admit, wrote Snow in his introduction to the original 1962 edition of Women of the Sea. I have on hand a list of more than 600 items which show women out on the ocean at their best and at their worst.Included in this lively collection of tales are: Hannah Burgess, who navigated her husband's clipper ship safely to port after his deathHis Kai Ching, a widow who took command of her husband's pirate fleetMrs. Jones, a Methodist missionary who was the sole survivor of the Maria, wrecked off the coast of Antigua in 1826Madame Desnoyer, who was cast adrift with her two children and a servant off Santo Domingo in 1767, after her husband had been murderedAlice Rowe Snow, the author's own mother, who spent most of her first twenty years at sea aboard ships commanded by her fatherAs with the other Snow Centennial Editions, first issued in 2002 on the 100th anniversary of Snow's birth, Women of the Sea has been edited and updated by historian Jeremy D'Entremont. It features a foreword by Snow's daughter and only child, Dorothy Snow Bicknell.

Boston, All One Family

9781933212166

$27.95

With virtually unlimited access to the city's leaders, the Boston Globe's society photographer has spent the past two years stitching together a beautiful portrait of Boston-not the bricks and buildings, but the people who make it move. There are celebrities aplenty here (from pols and pundits to actors and artists) but there are also dozens of images of community leaders who donate their time and money to make Boston a family more than ever.

Rhode Island

9781889833835

$29.95

Tucked into a corner of New England, Rhode Island is one of the region's best-kept secrets. Out-of-staters think of it as Providence, Newport, and little else. Photographer Richard Benjamin knows better. His Rhode Island is a four-part scenic tour of the state beginning and ending in the capital: Part One focuses on Providence, Part Two moves Along the Coast from the East Bay to Little Compton and over Newport, Part Three travels the Back Roads from the Hope Valley to Hopkinton, and Part Four returns to Providence to discover the city's rebirth.

Quite a Sightly Place

9781933212913

$29.95

Fifty years ago, there were fifty family dairy farms in the town of Danby, Vermont. Today, there are four. Nationally acclaimed nature photographer David Middleton spent four years working on one of these farms, side by side with the three generations who operate it. Eldest is 93-year-old Hugh Bromley, the grandson of the first Bromley to raise dairy cows here. The property has been in the Bromley family since before the Civil War. Hugh's son, Roger, runs the farm today, along with his wife Trish. Their three sons come and go on the farm, depending on how busy their own lives are. The Bromley farm is quite a sightly place, the description Hugh's wife gave it when she first laid eyes on the place after World War II. Middleton has captured not only the visual beauty of this vanishing world but the voices of the Bromleys. Color images are interwoven with thirty short stories of life on the farm. Hugh recalls the early years as he goes about his chores. Roger, as engaging as he is shy, explains the day-to-day working of the family dairy business today. It'Äôs a fascinating world and, with Roger as the main guide, it'Äôs a pretty funny one as well.

The Sound of Our Town

9781933212302

$24.95

Boston has had its celebrity bands, including Aerosmith, The Cars, J. Geils, and even the band Boston, fronted by the recently lamented Brad Delp. They're all here in this anecdotal, illustrated history. But what makes this book such a great read-and what gives Boston its distinctive sound-are tales of the local bands who played not in the Gahden or even at the legendary Boston Tea Party of late 60s fame and legend, but at The Rat, Club 47, the Lizard Lounge, and all the other clubs, boites, and dives Milano has been haunting since he first arrived in the city as a college student smitten with rock. Observing the scene in 2007, Milano notes, Three decades from now, somebody will likely be getting all warm and fuzzy about the days when you could see the Konks, the Dents, Andrea Gillis, Muck & the Mires, the Downbeat 5, the Coffin Lids, Bang Camaro, Ad Frank, Dirty Ticket, the World's Greatest Sinners, Hooray for Earth, Temper, the Tampoffs, Red Invasion, and the Pug Uglies on a regular basis. Chances are, Milano has heard every one of them.