Orris and Timble: The Beginning: (A Heartwarming Early Chapter Book About Friendship, Courage, and Helping Others - For Kids Ages 5-8 in Grades K-3) Poetry_Gift_Guide the reader will know

the reader will know

The narrative moves smoothly between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries as we see the country through both Washington’s and Philbrick’s eyes

idealistic Alice Jones longs for the kind of true love her mother and father have

This vivid

Orris and Timble: The Beginning: (A Heartwarming Early Chapter Book About Friendship, Courage, and Helping Others - For Kids Ages 5-8 in Grades K-3) Poetry_Gift_Guide the reader will knowFrom beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes the first book in a warm and funny early reader trilogy about a misanthropic rat and a naive owland the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech. A small owl has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris make the good and noble choice (as the king on