Librarians at Work (Meet Your Community Workers)
by Karen Kenney
A hilarious and playful romp about making books, perfect for fans of Press Here and The Book with No Pictures. What happens when a writer learns that he doesn’t quite have as much control over his book as he thinks? When Mark Pett’s characters, led by a panda bear named Spike, take over his book and begin telling a story of their own, pandemonium ensues! Who’s really in charge of this book? With clever interactive elements, including a pull tab, flap, and pop-up, This Is My Book is sure...
Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise
by David Ezra Stein
Surprise! The little red chicken is back — and as endearingly silly as ever — in David Ezra Stein’s follow-up to the Caldecott Honor–winning Interrupting Chicken. It’s homework time for the little red chicken, who has just learned about something every good story should have: an elephant of surprise. Or could it be an element of surprise (as her amused papa explains)? As they dive in to story after story, looking for the part that makes a reader say “Whoa! I didn’t know that was going to happen...
Written with style and heart by Wolverton Hill and illustrated with whimsical art by Laura Carlin, this love letter to Edward Lear brings him wonderfully to life for young readers. Edward Lear popularized the limerick as we know it and invented the modern literary genre of nonsense, made famous by Lewis Carroll. But did you know that as a teenager, he was a natural history artist on par with John J. Audubon? He has a memorial in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, placing him among the UK’s m...
Sequel to the Newbery Honor Book! In this second installment in beloved author Tomie dePaola's autobiographical 26 Fairmount Avenue series, young Tomie and his family are setting into their new house. Charming and lively, with dePaola's trademark illustrations, this is a wonderful addition to the series.
La niña que salvó a los libros / The Girl Who Wanted to Save the Books
by Klaus Hagerup and Lisa Aisato
Una historia encantadora, poética y mágica sobre el amor por los libros. Anna tiene casi 10 años y le encanta leer. Le gusta tanto que Monsen, el bibliotecario, se ha convertido en uno de sus mejores amigos.Un día, su amigo le cuenta a Anna qué sucede con los libros que nadie quiere tomar prestados de la biblioteca. Estos libros desaparecen, se destruyen. Pero, ¿qué ocurre con quienes viven dentro de esos libros, se pregunta Anna, desaparecen también? La idea de que todo ese...
The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Shakespeare (What on Earth Wallbook)
by Christopher Lloyd, Dr. Nick Walton, and Patrick Skipworth
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S plays are presented as never before, with all 38 masterpieces performed in front to you at once on a timeline set in the iconic Globe Theatre. Spot the ghosts, hunt for the murderers, discover the poison and revel in Elizabethan romance as each play reveals its story with a plot summary, key quotes and characters. The timeline features essential moments in Shakespeare's life providing a unique, visual and narrative context to the works of the world's favourite bard. The Wal...
Our Story Begins
by Chris Gall, Alex Gino, Chris Grabenstein, Elissa Brent Weissman, Kwame Alexander, Tom Angleberger, Ashley Bryan, Tim Federle, Candace Fleming, and Marla Frazee
From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today s foremost children s authors and illustrators revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.
Robert Burns and All That (The and All That)
by Allan Burnett and Scoular Anderson
"Robert Burns And All That" is a real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland's national bard. Meet the lassies who stole Burns' heart and the creatures that inspired his poetry. Join his quest to rescue a lost musical treasure - and get chased by ghouls as he explores the dark side of life. Bursting with hilarious illustrations, "Robert Burns And All That" is a book that simply must be read for the sake of auld lang syne!
Harper Lee: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author (Essential Lives Set 9)
by Alexis Burling
W.E.B. DuBois (Transcending Race in America: Biographies of Biracial Achievers (Hardcover))
by Jim Whiting
Judy Moody es experta en libros / Judy Moody Book Quiz Whiz (Judy Moody, #15)
by Megan McDonald
¡Libros, libros y más libros! Judy solo puede pensar en libros mientras se prepara para el primerísimo Gran Concurso de Lectura. ¿La lectura siempre ha sido tan emocionante? ¡Judy Moody está enfocada en ganar! Ganar el el primerísimo Gran Concurso de Lectura. Judy y su hermano, Stink, son dos quintos del club Comelibros de su escuela, Virginia Dare, y han estado leyendo hasta por los codos para prepararse para el enfrentamiento del sábado contra lectores de segundo y tercer grado de la ciudad...
Introduce a new generation of readers to the man who wrote the phenomenally beloved Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien for Kids takes young readers through the exciting life of the man who created amazing new worlds and helps kids discover how he could see them. Explore the personal experiences and subjects that inspired Tolkien's stories through hands-on activities, and learn how he influenced his contemporaries as well as later writers—like you! • Make a Shadowy Dra...
Official Vazdoo's Lessons for (Vazdoo's Lessons for)
by Tabbatha Bella