Miki And The Wishing Star

Miki is back in this wintery tale of determination, friendship and hope. It's the three friends' birthday and they all make a special wish, but Penguin's wish leads him into dangerous territory...A magical Antarctic journey in a book. Miki is a highly successful character in the gift and greeting card market and a theatre production is currently touring the country to rave reviews. A firm favourite with CBeebies, Miki was read on CBeebies Bedtime Hour by David Tennant and Miki and the Moon Blossom by Patrick Stewart.

Miki is back in this wintery tale of determination, friendship and hope. It's the three friends' birthday and they all make a special wish, but Penguin's wish leads him into dangerous territory... A magical Antarctic journey in a book. Miki is a highly-successful character in the gift and greeting-card market and a theatre production toured the country to rave reviews last year. A firm favourite with CBeebies, Miki was read on CBeebies Bedtime Hour by David Tennant and Miki and the Moon Blossom by Patrick Stewart.

Stella has found a wishing star! She knows she must use it wisely, but there are so many things to wish for. How can she choose? A twinkling tale of friendship and kindness - perfect for sharing at bedtime.

Little Brown Mouse and Little Grey Mouse are the best of friends. One night they see a sparkling Wishing Star fall into the lake, and so they hurry down the river to find it. But there is only one star, and both mice want to make a wish.

A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers. Decades later, Elizabeth comes to recognize the shame and self-loathing that haunt both her and her mother, and attempts a form of reconciliation, not only to come to terms with the embattled dynamics of her family but also to reckon with the injustices that reverberate throughout the history of Okinawa and its people. Clear-eyed and profoundly humane, Speak, Okinawa is a startling accomplishment—a heartfelt exploration of identity, inheritance, forgiveness, and what it means to be an American.