Jane Cabrera's signature animals celebrate Christmas with joy and love in this adaptation of the beloved holiday song. Her cheerful illustrations show magic mice, drumming dogs, skiing squirrels, and
Inspired by Lynch's students' fascination with the sixties, in which they wear sixties styles and T-shirts with sixties rock stars, and listen to sixties music; set in the Haight-Ashbury District of S
The Frazzle family is very forgetful, even when Aunt Rosemary visits and tries to straighten them out with her system, until Annie finds a simple and effective way to remember.
At the park, Nate doesn't want to race, but with Mom's encouragement, he enters one and wins. Children will relate to Nate's fears and applaud his courage to try something new.
With energy wars flaring across the globe, oil prices gone crazy, regular power cuts, and soldiers keeping the Outsiders in check, Hunter, one of the privileged of society, is fascinated by the Outsid
With expressions from all parts of the country, an American collection of similes for each letter of the alphabet reflects our nation's diverse heritage and creative use of language.
Looks at the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday, as a family remembers their ancestors and celebrates with sugar skulls, marigold petals, and joyful songs.
Looks at the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday, as a family remembers their ancestors and celebrates with sugar skulls, marigold petals, and joyful songs.
In early 1790s Paris, young and sheltered Eugenie de Boncoeur finds it difficult to tell friend from foe as she and the royalist brother she relies on become the focus of a sinister spymaster with a g
With expressions from all parts of the country, an American collection of similes for each letter of the alphabet reflects our nation's diverse heritage and creative use of language.
An accessible text and colorful illustrations add up to fun in this vibrant guide by the celebrated author and illustrator of "Working with Fractions" and "You Can, Toucan, Math." Page IV, Super Bowl
With an alligator, a cook, a trumpeter, and others in the bed, the little mouse finds it difficult to get comfy and so rolls over to get some additional room, but that leads to the pirate falling on t
In early 1790s Paris, young and sheltered Eugenie de Boncoeur finds it difficult to tell friend from foe as she and the royalist brother she relies on become the focus of a sinister spymaster with a g
At the age of fifteen, a girl who has spent most of her life moving around the country with her father and brother, filling the emptiness inside her with chocolate, remembers her real name, Sherica, a
When the city of Carthage falls to the Romans during the Punic Wars, Sara, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a senator, must flee with her father and take to the seas, she must face a life wildly diffe
Presents an introduction to fractions, with examples using illustrated objects and situations familiar to young readers, in order to simplify and reinforce important mathematical concepts and make the
As part of the Christmas tradition, his family and the neighbors decorate their lawns with scenes from The Twelve Days of Christmas, but when the pieces go missing night after night, young Alex become
Beginning with a concise discussion of each food group and the newly redesigned food pyramid, and including sections on exercise, drugs, and self-esteem, an informative and lively book will help kids
The author recounts her experiences in the Terezin concentration camp with the other Jews, detailing how, despite sickness, terror, and loss, the adults tried to make the children's lives more bearabl
Provides early readers with an informative review of the life, inspirations, and celebrated accomplishments of this genius, scientist, teacher, peace activist, and Nobel Prize winner.
After running into a bored and hungry Big Blue Beastie with his scooter, Dexter tries to come up with increasingly inventive ideas to keep the beastie from eating him out of shear boredom.
The future Bard of Avon, Will Shakespeare, while carousing with his friends, wooing women, and sneaking off to see plays, finds himself torn between two women--Anne Whateley, with whom his best friend
The author recounts her experiences in the Terezin concentration camp with the other Jews, detailing how, despite sickness, terror, and loss, the adults tried to make the children's lives more bearabl
Desperate for spring to arrive, Emily decides to help the groundhog with his task on Groundhog Day and so, with the help of her equally eager friend Harry, attempts to lure him out of his cave on that
Iguana is planning a big fiesta, but Iguana's friends Tortuga the tortoise, Conejo the hare, and Gulebra the snake don't want to help, in a retelling of the story of the Little Hen--with a Mexican twi
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball
With the help of some spunky and humorous characters, provides children with ideas and simple directions for writing, illustrating, designing, and binding books.
The inspired voices of Sheila Hamanaka, Gloria Geuvara, and Margaret Mahy come together with traditional chants and sayings of the Inuit, Maori, and Chinese to make a buoyant anthology of lively poetr
As part of the Christmas tradition, his family and the neighbors decorate their lawns with scenes from The Twelve Days of Christmas, but when the pieces go missing night after night, young Alex become
The African experience in America is celebrated with a soulful, affecting blues poem and powerful paintings that detail the long journey from the Middle Passage to life today.
Detailed illustrations enhance a colorful book about the landscape, plants, and animals of the North and South Poles, along with a review of their explorers and scientists.
Drawing from interviews with survivors and from meticulous research, a stirring chronicle of the bravery and dedication of the Danish Resistance during World War II discusses how many of Denmark's Jew
An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish
Enhanced with bold illustrations, this collection of poems celebrates the joys and traditions of holidays throughout year and the diverse beauty that comes with each of the four seasons.
An introduction to the genius with a curious mind who loved to experiment and who invented the phonograph, light bulb, movie camera, and numerous other items
