Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

My Family Vacation

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.


From the Hardcover edition.

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

An Italian visitor to Queens bemoans the unavailability of pizza until some thoughtful girls enable her to make some.

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

When her parents refuse to get her a dog, May creates an imaginary dog out of a roller skate, proving to her parents that she can handle the responsibility.

Tales of a Gambling Grandma

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.

Tale of a Gambling Grandma

The Snow Cat

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.”

How Pizza Came to Queens

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

Cowboy Dreams

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.

Green Cat

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.

Sleepers

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.