Synopsis: This fact-packed book contains everything you need to know about space, from moons to galaxies! Throughout the book, a galactic gallery of photographs makes exploring the universe a breathtaking experience. Perfect for budding astronauts aged 8 and up.

Synopsis: "Told in rhyming text, Pig the pug spreads destruction wherever he travels, creating complete chaos wrecking parties and parades until finally the locals unite to tell him to go away--but Pig never really learns his lesson and remains a bad traveling companion to this day." --

Synopsis: A set of six books written simply for beginning readers. Five of the six books stress a single short vowel sound with controlled vocabulary. One book includes all the short vowels in the simple text.

Synopsis: Book by Carratello, Patty

Synopsis: Text and illustrations, including x-rays, provide a guided tour of the human skeleton, encouraging the reader to find and feel each bone as it is described.

Synopsis: Antelopes leap! Elephants roam! Lions stalk and zebras gallop! Wild creatures from all over the African continent scamper through the pages of this delightful book, giving beginning readers a fascinating way to learn the alphabet while discovering some of their favorite animals. Award-winning filmmakers and photographers Dereck and Beverly Joubert bring their vivid images of African wildlife to this superbly engaging alphabet book. Readers will…

Synopsis: Incidents from the life of Pecos Bill, from his childhood among the coyotes to his unusual wedding day.

Synopsis: Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.

Synopsis: Tomie dePaola's classic wordless picture book is just as fun as a serving of pancakes for breakfast!Missing ingredients and mischievous pets create one humorous complication after another for a little old lady determined to make pancakes for breakfast.Fans of such favorites as Strega Nona will love Pancakes for Breakfast.“The optimistic determination of the woman and the gentle humor of the illustrations make this an appealing book for the very…

Synopsis: Learn firsthand, brand-new information about our oceans, delivered directly from scientists in the field. These days, if you want to look something up, you just turn on your computer. But are you really getting all the information you need? Is it correct and up to date? Is there more information out there? There is! OCEANS presents cutting-edge information directly from oceanographers themselves. It reveals how this information was…

Synopsis: A simple biography of a great black leader emphasizing his dream of equal treatment for all Americans.

Synopsis: All three pigs set out to seek their fortune, but two of them come to a sorry end.

Synopsis: "Your journey beneath Earth's surface will take you through the fascinating world of limestone caves, sea caves, glacier caves, and lava tubes. You will learn how caves form and what can be found within them"--Page 4 de la couverture.

Synopsis: Presents the stories of a dog that helps stranded dolphins, a capuchin monkey who helps a young man with physical limitations, and a rat that sniffs out land mines.

Synopsis: This bind-up features original stories for the Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland), Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty), and The Queen (Snow White…

Synopsis: Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

Synopsis: When Kermit and Fozzie visit some of Kermit's friends in the swamp, they find out that an amusement park and shopping center are going to be built there. Kermit tries to convince his friends that keeping the swamp as it is would be better.

Synopsis: Help Me Be Good About Disobeying is a self-help book for 4-8 year old children. It deals with the behavioral issue of disobeying and offers practical, down-to-earth advice on ways to overcome this behavior.

Synopsis: Rhyme follows rhyme as layer after layer of winter clothing ("bunchy and hot, wrinkled a lot, stiff in the knee, and too big for me!") is first put on and then taken off to the relief of the child bundled inside. Clever rebuses and jaunty illustrations make The Jacket I Wear in the Snow especially fun for prereaders and new readers.

Synopsis: The students in Miss Mickle's third-grade class enjoy a boat trip on the Connecticut River after a class discussion of ancestors reveals that Sidney and Ida both have connections to the sea.