More than two hundred illustrations, as well as musical and lyrical selections, celebrate the successful collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and their contributions to the develo
Who ate Mrs. Meech's blueberry pie? Mrs. Meech calls on private eyes Wizard, Skinny, Tubby, and Snitch to help her find out! When this book was first published, The Horn Book praised its "real humor,
The legendary Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author and illustrator John Steptoe shares the story of a baby who desperately wants to get his older brother’s attention.Spare
When orphaned Mary Lennox, lonely and sad, comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long c
Get your gun!" Sam's father said. "The British soldiers are coming this way!" Sam's father was a Minuteman. Sam was ready in a minute.Father and son rushed to the village green. Other Minutemen were a
Creak...Crash...BOO! Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards...all to chill your bones! Share these seven spine-tingling stories in a dark, dark room.
Ms. Piggle-Wiggle's left her upside-down town house and has moved to a farm in the country. With the help of her cows and pigs and horses, she's still curing girls and boys of their bad habits. So wha
Red Fox wants a big canoe. And when he gets it, he's off to catch a million fish. But Red Fox gets more than he bargained for in his roomy new canoe -- a bear and his buddies, two otters, a raccoon an
From the publishers of the best-selling Macmillan Dictionary for Children, here is the Macmillan Dictionary for Students. Authoritative and easy to use, it is the most comprehensive dictionary geared
Presents a brief history of baseball and instructs in improving the basic skills needed to play the game; sliding into base, fielding ground balls, making judgments, and many others.
Describes the composition and characteristics of the earth's atmosphere, its importance to life, the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle, and the effects of air pollution.
Bret Maverick doesn't call poker gambling. In gambling you can lose, and losing is one thing Maverick doesn't plan to do as he roams the frontier looking for action. But when he tangles with a larceno
Presents the essentials of French grammar in a series of focused self-test exercises answer sections. The book provides the means for readers to test their knowledge of written French and identify the
A woman driving upstate with her five-year-old daughter takes a shortcut that leads to disaster when her car breaks down in a rainstorm. When they seek refuge in a nearby farmhouse, she and her daught
this beautiful volume offers an astonishingly rich and detailed view of one of the greatest French artists of the nineteenth century. In addition to over 250 color illustrations, this work draws on a
Written between the ages of twelve and fifteen, this diary tells the story of Jim Carroll, a kid growing up stealing, hustling, getting high, playing basketball, and trying to find something pure on t
An essential reference source for both academic and general readers since 1984 has now been expanded and thoroughly revised to reflect the most current religious trends of our ever-changing world. Wit
Easy-to-follow instructions guide readers through more than seventy inspirational ideas for table decorating, covering a wide variety of occasions and featuring templates and diagrams for the projects
As Russia and the United States stage Operation Pit Bull, the greatest war games in history, a conspiracy, led by fanatical hard-line communists from the former U.S.S.R., aims to sabotage the games an
Josef Tanaka, a part-Japanese forensic pathologist, links the marks on the victims of a sadistic Philadelphia serial killer to the Praying Mantis style of kung fu, while the killer chooses Tanaka's lo
The three-dimensional poster Keith buys as part of a Virtual Reality package becomes a omen of an impending evil, leading him into a future he may be powerless to change. Original.
Following established precedent, Gauguin by himself is concerned to present as comprehensive a picture of the life and work of its subject as possible, by means of the artist's paintings, drawings, ce
Exploring the jungle outside the Jedi Academy, twins Jacen and Jaina Solo discover the remains of a TIE fighter that went down during the first Death Star battle, and their plans to repair it are over
Emma Brody, who has recovered her sight after a transplant operation, sees the blurred figure of the man who murdered her upstairs neighbor, and since he does not know she cannot see clearly enough to
Offers practical advice about planning a trip to the region, and describes points of interest in Myanmar (Burma), Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietn
A guide to China, Hong Kong, both North and South Korea, Macau, Mongolia, Taiwan, and Japan includes tips on travel, accommodations, restaurants, and sightseeing
Examines the life and works of the noted Impressionist painter, offering more than three hundred examples of his work arranged according to theme and numerous firsthand accounts of Degas and his conte
A celebration of Hollywood's finest films, from the silent screen era to the present, documents outstanding comedies, war movies, musicals, crime flicks, epics, and more, accompanied by a history of e
Traces the development of English painting from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, focusing on the works of Hogarth, Blake, Gainsborough, Stubbs, Reynolds, Constable, Turner, and Bacon
Whether you are looking for a few wise words of advice, like "Least said soonest mended," some trenchant observation, such as "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink," or a common b
When Mister Mxyzptlk starts pulling dangerous pranks all over Metropolis to get into the headlines, Superman? uses his ties at theDaily Planet to trick the trickster into taking a serious time-out!Per
FIT FOR LIFEAll diets work and all diets fail, but here at last is hope for anyone who wants to achieve - and maintain - permanent weight loss.Fit For Life is a revolutionary diet and lifestyle progra
