Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

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A memorable storybook lesson about sharing

Green Cat
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Manufacturer: Tundra Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0887765866
Release Date: 2002-02-19

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Having to share a room with a brother or sister can make for hard feelings, and the siblings in this hilarious book are grumpy about their crowded room. At least it seems crowded until Green Cat shows up. He’s going to show us what a really crowded room can look like. By the time he piles in everything from a toaster to a giraffe, the amazed siblings are ready to admit that sharing a room is not so bad after all.

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A memorable storybook lesson about sharing.......2002-05-17

Written and illustrated by Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Green Cat is a vividly colored picturebook featuring brightly colored, eye-catching artwork in a simplistic yet powerful modern style. The Story is about a brother and a sister who quarrel over having to share a room. Each thinks that the room is too crowded - until the Green Cat comes and shows them how crowded a room can really be! Enthusiastically recommended for family, school, and community library picturebook collections, Green Cat is an entertaining and memorable storybook lesson about sharing.

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Extremely poignant for a children's book
Grandma didn't let any grass grow under her toes
Another Romany stereotype

Tales of a Gambling Grandma
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Manufacturer: Tundra Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Shortcut

ASIN: 0887763359
Release Date: 1994-10-04

Book Description

The grandma of this story is different. Not many grandmas teach their granddaughters how to play poker, or take train rides across the country, bathing in fresh orange juice. But this grandma is also not so different. Together grandma and granddaughter go to the movies, drink tea at a Chinese food restaurant, and see a vaudeville show that stars a beer-drinking hippo. Everyday they have lunch together, and grandma tells the story of her life. This is an off-beat, heartwarming tale narrated by a little girl whose grandmother is her best friend.

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Extremely poignant for a children's book.......2003-07-19

I picked up the book in the library and began reading for the strange title... By the end I was just in tears at the wonderful story and reminded me of my grandma and my relationship with her. Great story that is entertaining for both adults and children, and hopefully will encourage children to cherish their time with their grandma.

Grandma didn't let any grass grow under her toes.......2000-11-08

This is a very sweet reminiscence of the author's immigrant grandma, who embraced life fully. She played poker with Dutch Schultz's gang while her plumber husband fixed their toilets. While she cared for the author as a child she passed along the wisdom she'd accumulated. Advice like "Never, ever go into the woods alone because the gypsies will get you or, should you escape that cruel fate, you'll fall down a hole." Or, "Just in case the Cossacks come to Queens, learn to say 'Da' and always keep plenty of borscht in the refrigerator." As a senior citizen she took the train from New York to California, where she could always find a poker game. When the author was old enough, she taught her to play poker as well. The author's illustrations of the way she imagined her grandmother's stories are a delight. Loving respect informs every page. The author was lucky to have such a grandma, and we are lucky to share her story.

Another Romany stereotype.......1999-12-29

One illustration in this otherwise innocent tale clearly depicts Gypsies as "wood people" who, the text says, will "take" children if they wander into the forest. It is unfortunate to see such blatant stereotyping--in an age when the Romany (Gypsy) population of Eastern Europe is the target of more hate crime than at any time since the Holocaust. It's too bad that so many children's authors remain completely insensitive to the slavery and poverty suffered by the Rom. Discerning readers can help by avoiding books that include any kind of sterotyping. Alyssa A. Lappen

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How Pizza Came to Queens
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0590444069

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A delightful childrens book about childrens relationship with a mysterious lady and how she introduced them to pizza.

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The Snow Cat
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Manufacturer: Tundra Books
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ASIN: 0887764894
Release Date: 1999-09-02

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This is a charming and poignant tale of Elsie, a girl who lives alone in the woods. Praying for a companion, she is sent a cat made of snow and is told not to let it inside. Elsie plays with the cat and they quickly become friends, exploring the woods and marvelling at the wonders of the northern sky. But after parting for the night, Elsie is too lonely, so she lets the cat inside to lie by the fire. Sure enough, the snow cat melts, and in the morning Elsie discovers the water has run down a hill until it gathered to become a pond in the shape of a cat, where the girl plays all year long, and the pond sparkles “like a diamond in the sun.”

I Want a Dog: (ALA Notable Book, Reading Rainbow Review Book) (Dragonfly Paperbacks)

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Enjoying the Process: I Want A Dog
Roller Skate used as dog

I Want a Dog: (ALA Notable Book, Reading Rainbow Review Book) (Dragonfly Paperbacks)
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517881993
Release Date: 1994-03-01

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Every kid wants one, but few are as persistent and inventive about getting one – or a substitute for one – as little May. It seems to little May that everybody has a dog except her. She tries everything, even bringing one home, with no success. Then one day she accidentally discovers that a rollerskate can act like a dog, almost, so she works at acquiring the technical skill that will change it into one, almost. She leads it, walks it – at first timidly, then boldly – ties it up outside stores, takes it all the places a dog can go. In fact, she starts quite a fad on her street of rollerskate walking.

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Enjoying the Process: I Want A Dog.......2007-03-11

You can't always get what you want, but if you try, try, try again you might enjoy yourself anyway. In a quiet explosion of colour, character and creativity, this book tells us how.

Roller Skate used as dog.......2000-06-03

May will do just about anything to get a dog, even practice with a roller skate. Check out her methods of persuading her parents to buy her the one thing she wants most of all, A DOG! As a teacher, I will be using this book to help my students learn the art of persuasion and turning this into a writing piece to hopefully persuade their parents for that one special thing. This is really a cute book that accurately portrays how a child will go to great lengths to get what they want.

How Pizza Came to Queens: (New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year)

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A very special little book.

How Pizza Came to Queens: (New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year)
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Miss Rumphius

ASIN: 0517571269
Release Date: 1989-01-25

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A very special little book........2001-08-16

A lot of qualities have to come together to make a childrenÕs picture book special. "How Pizza Came To Queens" has all of them.

The story is wonderful. It takes place at some unidentified time in the past (probably late 40s or early 50s), when an elderly Italian relative, Mrs. Pellegrino, pays a visit to Queens and is disappointed to discover thereÕs no pizza there Ð but she doesnÕt speak English well enough to explain what pizza is. The children she visits want to make her happy, so they do everything they can to find out what pizza is so they can get one for Mrs. Pellegrino. They finally find the answer in the library (using a dictionary and then a cookbook), and buy all the ingredients, thinking all the while that a PIE made with TOMATOES sounds disgusting. To say the least, they get a pleasant surprise.

ItÕs a funny and charming story, but itÕs a lot more than that, too. I think itÕs very important for children to learn to appreciate other cultures, and a book showing that their favorite food has not been in this country forever, but came over with immigrants, is a great way to help them see foreign cultures and people in a positive way. The children in the story are also great role models. The find Mrs. Pellegrino odd (her difficulty with English even makes her seem a little mean at first), but they are able to put aside their feelings and try to help her feel at home. And theyÕre rewarded for their kindness with their first taste of pizza Ð now thereÕs a reward most kids can appreciate.

A charming story and humane values make this book a gem. But the pictures make it even better. TheyÕre not conventionally pretty, but Dayal Kaur Khalso has a unique style based on vivid, sometimes startling colors that are eye-catching and quite beautiful.

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This warm, nostalgic tale and the author’s brilliantly colored paintings evoke a real sense of time and place and family fun that children and parents alike will find irresistible.

May and her parents and her older brother Richie are off to Florida – May’s first vacation far from home. After a long hot drive, full of fights with Richie, they reach their destination. Ahead lie sunny days filled with new adventures and unexpected pleasures that will bring May and Richie closer together. And when they get home, her Florida vacation is a happy memory for May all winter long.

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How Pizza Came to Queens (Audiocassette Tape)

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How Pizza Came to Queens (Audiocassette Tape)
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: 0590609033

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May, of My Family Vacation , is staying with her good friends Linda, Judy, and Peggy Penny while her parents are away. The Penny family is visited by a distant cousin, elderly Mrs. Pelligrini, who walks through the kitchen door, sniffs the air and immediately declares, "Is no good." The girls notice that the only time the elderly visitor is really happy is when she is cooking, and they all wonder about the mysterious "pizza" that Mrs. Pelligrini misses so much. "Maybe it's her daughter . . . " says one of the girls. "Or her dog," ventures another. When the girls learn, at the library, the meaning of the word pizza, they copy the list of ingredients and then go shopping. Mrs. Pelligrini, seeing the items the girls have assembled, flies into action, and soon the house is filled with the aroma of the bubbling, baking pie. This amusing story is embellished with Khalsa's intensely colored paintings in her vigorous primitive style, each one brimming with details of family life a few decades ago. The delicious-looking endpapers depict pizza pies falling from a beautiful blue sky.

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COWBOY DREAMS
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 051757490X
Release Date: 1990-03-24

Book Description

One of the most colorful and best-selling books by Dayal Kaur Khalsa is back in print--and in paper. In this enchanting story, an imaginative city girl yearns to be a cowboy and to have her very own horse. So she builds one on the basement banister and, using a jump rope for reins, rides all winter long, singing cowboy tunes.

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great book - for young child on his way to bed

Sleepers
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Manufacturer: Tundra Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0887764908
Release Date: 1999-06-03

Book Description

A delightful read-aloud book about a very small girl who won’t go to sleep. Everyone and everything go to sleep: her mother and father, the cat and the dog, her aunts and uncle, camels and flamingos, cowboys and clowns. Even the sheep she counts eventually go to sleep – but does she?

Now available in a bright and larger format, this enormously appealing book can be joyfully discovered by a whole new generation of readers. This new format is being published to celebrate Dayal Kaur Khalsa’s enormous contribution to the children’s book world.

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great book - for young child on his way to bed.......2000-06-13

a book about people who sleeping - if it's in the living room couch or the bench on the park - the amazing illustrating of khalsa will make you or your child fall asleep with a smile !

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