Synopsis: Snug and warm, curled and furry, Old Bear sleeps. Red, orange, and brown leaves fly through the air, and it is snowing hard. Old Bear doesn't notice. Old Bear is dreaming about being a cub again. He is dreaming about the beauty of the world. He is dreaming of everything he loves about the forest that is his home. Turn the page and you will see!

Synopsis: Being green is important to Nancy—so important that she wants her family to take care of the Earth morning, noon, and night!

Synopsis: Picture Day is the best day of the year, in Nancy's opinion. She has a fancy outfit all picked out, so now all she needs is a new hairstyle! Beginning readers will laugh at this addition to the Fancy Nancy I Can Read library.

Synopsis: Celebrate American independence with this delightful picture book as you travel to Revolutionary America and meet the amazing Amelia Simmons: mother's helper, baker of delectable cakes, and soon-to-be authoress of the first American cookbook!   Master of the historical fiction picture book Deborah Hopkinson takes us back to late eighteenth-century America and the discombobulated home of Mrs. Bean, mother of six strapping sons, who simply can't…

Synopsis: Curious George finds his sweet tooth--and plenty of chocolate--on a visit to a candy store.When George and the man with the yellow hat go shopping at a chocolate factory store, George becomes curious about how the chocolates are made. Though he starts off following the factory tour, soon he is wanders off to investigate on his own. And when George follows his curiosity there is always fun to be had!

Synopsis: From the author-illustrator team who brought you The Invisible Boy comes the story of a boy who won't stop talking--until he gets laryngitis. You don't have to be a chatterbox to appreciate this tale of listening and learning.Owen McPhee doesn't just like to talk, he LOVES to talk. He spends every waking minute chattering away at his teachers, his classmates, his parents, his dog, and even himself. But all that talking can get in the way of…

Synopsis: A young girl tries to be the best at everything she does. Her ice skating class is going to be in an ice show. And her determination to be the best skater causes her to frown on her classmates' less-than-perfect practice sessions. They laugh and giggle with each misstep. She cannot imagine having fun when putting on a show is most important. But on the day of the Ice Show, she trips and causes everyone to fall down. Instead of being angry with…

Synopsis: A collection of articles linked together by the topic of tornadoes

Synopsis: Presents a visual guide to items and animals of various strength and substance, including such examples as spider webs, bulldozers, black holes, lasers, icebreakers, and the Hercules beetle.

Synopsis: Weather can be wild. Thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other storms can cause accidents, damage property, and injure people. Learn about what makes wild weather and what you can do to keep safe.

Synopsis: Describes various kinds of trucks and their functions, including a log truck, cement mixer truck, and sanitation truck. Trucks lift, dump, mix, and carry things. They do all kinds of jobs. Tractors help on farmsSanitation trucks clean city streets. Some trucks carry houses, or even the space shuttle!

Synopsis: Pairs of fiction and nonfiction books share high-interest topics and encourage children to compare and contrast, distinguish between fact and fiction, and make the transition between fiction and nonfiction reading strategies.

Synopsis: One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his work shows painting at its most lighthearted and luminous, while championing the plein air and color innovations of his time. Renoir's oeuvre was prolific, with some several thousand works in his lifetime. Much influenced by forerunners such as…

Synopsis: Traces the life of the internationally acclaimed musician and composer who helped popularize jazz music.

Synopsis: Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of actual paintings, give children a light yet realistic overview of each artist's life and style in these fun and educational books.

Synopsis: Learning to count with Florida's own counting book, Sunny Numbers, is lots of fun for the little ones...from 1 Old Lighthouse to 6 Lipizzan Horses to 8 Long-armed Octopi and so on. Carol Crane, author of S is for Sunshine: A Florida Alphabet, continues to explore Florida's unique landscape, wildlife, history, and more with her counting rhymes and explanatory text. With beautifully detailed illustrations by Jane Monroe Donovan and many new…

Synopsis: A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his…