Synopsis: This brand-new edition of Eric Carle’s beloved classic now comes with a CD narrated by award-winning actor Stanley Tucci!The barnyard rooster crows and Jack wakes up—hungry, of course! What does he want for breakfast? A big pancake! But first, Jack’s mother needs flour from the mill, an egg from the hen, milk from the cow, butter churned from fresh cream, and firewood for the stove. Will Jack ever get his pancake? With his trademark collage…

Synopsis: With nothing less than his usual fiery, brilliant illustrations, Eric Carle breathes new life into this well-known children's song, treating the reader to a mouth-watering collage of culinary delights, spirited animals, and culturally diverse children.--"The jaunty tune gets new life in a picture book bursting with food, animals, and lots of energy.... Carle's always innovative artwork steps center stage with gloriously colored collages". --…

Synopsis: Join Mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he decorates all the pumpkins in the patch in this sweet board book from Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. Mouse is excited for fall because that means it is time to decorate pumpkins! But one is missing. Where could it have gone? This is the perfect Halloween book for the very youngest reader, and is just the right book to get kids and budding artists inspired to work on their own Halloween crafts.

Synopsis: Blast off into space with New York Times bestselling author and artists James Dean and everyone’s favorite cat-stronaut, Pete the Cat, in Pete the Cat: Out of This World.When Pete heads off to space camp, he gets to float in zero gravity, build rockets, and even goes on an extraordinary interstellar mission that is out of this world—literally. Houston, ready to rock out with Pete the Cat!Don't miss Pete's other storybook adventures, including…

Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author-artist James Dean brings us a new Pete the Cat adventure, a special reimagining of “The Tortoise and the Hare” as a race between Pete and Turtle, in Pete the Cat: Go, Pete, Go!Ding, ding. There’s nothing Pete the Cat loves to do more on a sunny day than ring his little bell and pedal fast on his bicycle. But on this sunny day, Turtle wants to race someone in his new car. Vroom, vroom! Pete and his bicycle are up…

Synopsis: Digger the Dinosaur is starring in a play! But will he remember all the lines he has to say? Young children just learning to read will enjoy the warmth and humor of this My First I Can Read story about a little dinosaur who keeps trying, no matter what.Author Rebecca Kai Dotlich is a poet and picture book author of such titles as What Is Science? and Lemonade Sun (an American Booksellers "Pick of the Lists"). Her work is featured widely in…

Synopsis: It’s bath time for two little ducklings and one big dinosaur! Spike loves soap, but Feather and Flap don’t want to scrub. What will Spike do to make getting clean fun for everyone? This short, sweet, and very bubbly story will help show kids how much fun bath time can be.Duck, Duck, Dinosaur: Bubble Blast is a My First I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for shared reading with a child.

Synopsis: It's Froggy's mother's birthday, and Froggy wants to bake her birthday cake all by himself. He gathers the chocolate, the sugar, the eggs, the flour, and pretty soon, Froggy has all the ingredients he needs to make... a big mess! Jonathan London and Frank Remkiewicz have collaborated on the six previous Froggy books, and they've cooked up another winner here, sweetened with generous helpings of Froggy humor and charm.

Synopsis: This modern classic celebrates the tradition of tamales and family bonding at Christmas.Christmas Eve started out so perfectly for Maria. Snow had fallen and the streets glittered. Maria's favorite cousins were coming over and she got to help make the tamales for Christmas dinner. It was almost too good to be true when her mother left the kitchen for a moment and Maria got to try on her beautiful diamond ring . . .This is the story of a treasure…

Synopsis: We're stirring up fun, love, and memories in Grandma's kitchen! This sweet story celebrates the special bond between grandmothers and their grandchildren. A perfect gift for a grandma shower, Mother's Day, Easter basket, little valentines, or a birthday. A wonderful keepsake from grandmother to a grandchild for any occasion. Cute bunnies in a vintage setting are used in place of people, to be any race, gender, or age. Collect all the books in…

Synopsis: Available in board for the first time, this popular lift-the-flap celebrates Spot's dad's birthday. Spot and Mom make a list, shop for the ingredients, mix them all up, bake and decorate the cake, not without some funny messes along the way. Lift-the-flap surprise throughout include a little gray mouse all too eager to help.

Synopsis: A little buckaroo is turning two in this birthday book for the very young, the fifth story about the delightful holiday mice. Mischief and near disaster abound when the littlest mouse's sister and brothers throw him a cowboy-themed party. Through simple rhymes and charming illustrations, readers witness the party preparations, the arrival of the guests, the opening of presents, and the blowing out of the candles, as well as the ensuing…

Synopsis: Introduces fruits and vegetables through photographs and brief text that describe one item for each letter of the alphabet. Build phonetic awareness and support content-area learning with these fascinating nonfiction books. From A to Z, these books match the letters of the alphabet with vivid, full-color photographs. They teach letter recognition and capital and lowercase letters, plus letter names, shapes, and sounds. The easy-to-use…

Synopsis: Describes the ways food can change, using butter as an example, and shows the steps needed to make heavy cream into butter.

Synopsis: An instant New York Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of Go the **** to Sleep and healthy eating advocate Camila Alves McConaughey comes a whimsical role reversal in which picky eater parents are confronted by their three kids, with hilarious resultsThese three kids are determined to get their parents to put down the ice cream, cake, and chicken fried steak to just try one bite of healthy whole foods. But it's harder than it looks…

Synopsis: Mo, a little boy who doesn't want to eat his dinner, turns himself into a series of ever-expanding monsters that eat virtually everything except stringbeans and cheese souffle, including math teachers and entire countries.

Synopsis: With inspiring and educational stories, Scholastic's Hello Reader series caters to the spectrum of reading abilities among beginning readers. My First Hello Readers use basic words to reinforce phonics and sight vocabulary. The books at this level offer punch-out flash cards plus six additional pages of skill-building activities. Levels 1 - 4 combine a greater vocabulary and longer sentence length. Each book has an introductory letter from an…

Synopsis: Ten-year-old Justin hates that his sisters and his mama are always fussing at him. They make him feel stupid because he can't clean his room or cook. But why should he? He'd rather be outside playing. After all, cooking and cleaning is just “women's work.” That's why Justin is glad when his grandfather invites him back to his ranch for the summer. Justin is sure he can get away from all the women and do some actual “men's work,” such as cleaning…

Synopsis: Look! Look! The Cat wants to cook! Told with simple rhymes and rhythms, this jaunty illustrated tale gives very young readers a taste of the Cat in the Hat’s flamboyant cooking skills as he slaps on a Chef’s hat and whips up purple cupcakes using some truly odd ingredients!

Synopsis: From the creator of The New York Times bestseller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk -- four times over an in alphabetical order each time. Kitty is not happy hen she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are Asparagus, Beets, Cauliflower, Dill...and 22 other equally unappealing vegetables. So she: Ate my homework, Bit grandma, Clawed the curtains, Damaged the dishes, and so on, through Z. Only when…