Washoe County Library System

"Earthrise tells the story of the first time the planet Earth was photographed in colour from space. The photo, later called Earthrise, was taken in 1968 by the astronauts on Apollo 8, the first US space mission to break free of Earth's orbit and circle the Moon. The Apollo 8 astronauts were surveying the lunar surface for places to land future missions. As they were charting the Moon, they happened to look up just as Earth, in a flash of color and...

It's class picture day, but for the second graders nothing is going right: their class pet is missing, their teacher left and hasn't been replaced, and Olivia refuses to smile.

A girl looks at old photographs with her mother, trying to figure out what her mother feels most grateful for in her life.

Learn to read with young Amelia Bedelia! Amelia Bedelia has been loved by readers for more than fifty years. And it turns out that her childhood is full of silly mix-ups, too! In this Level 1 I Can Read, Amelia Bedelia gets ready to smile for the camera on school picture day. This Level 1 I Can Read series featuring Amelia Bedelia as a child proves that a picture is worth a thousand words and will inspire newly independent readers to read, laugh,...

C.J., who aspires to be as great a jazz musician as his uncle, searches for Uncle Click's hat in preparation for an important photograph and inadvertently gathers some of the greatest musicians of 1950s Harlem to join in on the picture.