Synopsis: These easy-to-read selections include rhyming and counting stories, while basic concepts are combined with holiday themes.

Synopsis: "Eww! What a stinker! Pig isn't just the world's greediest pug, he's the DIRTIEST, too. It's time he had a bath! But try telling Pig that..."--Page [4] of cover.

Synopsis: A school of ten sly piranhas gradually dwindles as they waylay and eat each other.

Synopsis: The little monsters introduce the numbers from 1 to 21.

Synopsis: After his aunt makes him an apron just like his uncle's, a young boy helps him plaster the chimney.

Synopsis: Maps and globes can take you anywhere -- to the top of the tallest mountain on earth or the bottom of the deepest ocean. Maps tell you about the world: where various countries are located, where the jungles and deserts are, even how to find your way around your own hometown. If you take a fancy to any place on earth, you can go there today and still be home in time for dinner. So open a map, spin a globe. The wide world awaits you.

Synopsis: Lavishly illustrated with more than eighty full-color photographs, a moving, personal account of the author's findings about the socialization of these endangered animals is intended to increase awareness about the need to protect the chimpanzees.

Synopsis: Paul Bunyan encourages young learners to build reading comprehension skills with grade-appropriate vocabulary, extension activities, and an engaging story. Featuring reading activities and a Comprehension…

Synopsis: This text is a fun adaptation of the classic playground song. Help Skunk solve the mystery as he asks each of his animal friends, Mouse, Raven, Squirrel, Rabbit, Turtle, Raccoon, Snake, Beaver, and Frog, who took the cookie from the cookie jar?

Synopsis: Two friends experience the vicissitudes of friendship.

Synopsis: As a little mouse tosses and turns in his bed of dried grasses, he imagines that other animals must surely have better sleeping arrangements. A bird's nest, a kangaroo's pouch, a polar bear's den-they all sound so cozy . . . at first. But a patient mother mouse helps her little one see why home is best for him.This mother and child's loving banter suggests a game that parents and toddlers will quickly add to their own bedtime routines-ensuring…

Synopsis: When Chester the sheep-herding dog moves to the city, he suffers an identity crisis. "This picture book has it all-- slapstick comedy, a touch of pathos, and an actual story with a beginning, a middle, and an end." --"Booklist," starred review

Synopsis: Ginger the cat lives a comfortable life, but when a pesky little kitten moves in, Ginger must share his bed, his meals, and the attention from his people with the intruder, in an ideal tale for cat lovers and children.

Synopsis: Count the mice from 1 to 10 and back again as they outsmart a hungry snake! A companion to Mouse Paint and Mouse Shapes. This suspenseful story features bold collage art and a touch of mischief that's sure to appeal to preschoolers who have mastered counting from 1 to 10 and causing some mischief of their own.

Synopsis: After she overhears her parents' concerns about the family finances, second-grader Josie, who is about to become a big sister again, decides to pitch in her money making ideas with very funny results.

Synopsis: "Nonstop action, real history, serious danger. You gotta read these books!" --Alan Gratz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of RefugeeDecember, 1961Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East -- with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc-controlled eastern side.January, 1989Now a spray-painted concrete monolith, the Berlin Wall bisects the city. Kurt, a young…

Synopsis: If one small act can create a ripple across the universe . . . what happens when a whole group of kids join together and act? Told in eight perspectives--including one in graphic novel form--Operation Frog Effect is perfect for fans of Andrew Clements, Rob Buyea, and Sarah Weeks, and for anyone who wants to make a difference. Hi--It's us, Ms. Graham's class. We didn't mean to mess things up. But we did. We took things too far, and now Ms.…

Synopsis: This groundbreaking thesaurus for children ages 9 to 13 goes beyond the competition by defining each headword and synonym and then providing example sentences for each. Over 500 headwords, 2,500 synonyms, and an extensive cross-referencing index are presented in a contemporary, full-color, user-friendly design.