Diane Stanley – Books for Children

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Alice Waters Cooks Up a Food Revolution

Whenever young Alice Waters tasted something delicious, like the sun-warmed berries from her family's garden or a crisp, ripe apple picked straight from the tree, she would remember it for the rest of her life. Later, as she tasted many more wonderful foods, she figured out what made them so good-they were fresh and ripe, grown or made the old-fashioned way. When she grew up, Alice opened a restaurant called Chez Panisse. To make sure her meals would be delicious, she searched for small, local farmers to provide their meat, dairy, and produce. The restaurant made her famous, but it did much more than that-it started a food revolution. Today, fifty years after Chez Panisse first opened, home cooks and chefs alike are discovering the simple secret to the Best! Food! Ever! This book is a celebration of food, cooking, and the woman whose curiosity and devotion to flavor kickstarted America's food revolution.

Second Sleep

When Max and Rosie's mother disappears, the family starts to unravel. Hoping a change of scene might help, their grandmother takes them to the old log cabin where their mom had spent her childhood summers. With no electricity or Wi-Fi, it’s a place where, when it gets dark, there’s nothing to do but go to sleep. That night Max and Rosie share identical dreams of an impossibly beautiful place and a dazzling group of new friends. As Max slowly grasps what is really going on, he wonders if he might have found the key to the mystery of his mother's disappearance--and how to bring her safely home. “This is a book for those who love adventure, mystery, and journeys to self-realization. It’s a story with depth and heart, with fully fleshed out characters and, even though the opportunity is there, a delightful lack of cynicism. At once magical and rooted in reality, an engaging story of life, love, family, and heart.” – Starred review, Kirkus

RESIST! Peaceful Acts That Changed Our World

Aspiring activists everywhere will find hope and inspiration in RESIST!, a collection of 21 brief, compelling essays on figures from the past and present who found peaceful ways of fighting injustice. They were imprisoned for disobeying evil laws, they led strikes, called for boycotts, marched in protest, and refused to give up their seats on buses and at lunch counters. They made videos and films, wrote books, recorded songs, created art, blogged, tweeted, filed lawsuits, and started websites. One smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Thanks to these courageous men, women, and children who would not remain silent in the face of injustice, slavery was abolished, women and minorities gained the right to vote, tyrants were overthrown, governments and laws were changed for the better, and thousands of lives have been saved.