Hello world : a celebration of languages and curiosities

Learn to greet people around the globe in this interactive atlas of hellos. With more than 150 languages, flaps to guide you through pronunciations, and features on hieroglyphs, sign languages, and different writing systems, a world of exploration is at your fingertips.

The home of the winds

Fearing enemies, a group of Maori people build a pa, a fortified village, on a site chosen for its defensibility.

Munia and the orange crocodile

A girl waiting for her loose teeth to be replaced by her permanent teeth is disturbed by nightmares about crocodiles with huge uneven teeth, until a bright orange croc with no teeth keeps her company in her dreams.

Alphabet city

The urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter "A" — while lampposts alongside a highway can form a row of elegant, soaring Ys. A 1996 Caldecott Honor book, this sophisticated, wordless alphabet book is sure to appeal to young and old alike.

One hungry monster : a counting book in rhyme

At bedtime a small boy tries to control ten insatiable monsters demanding food and creating chaos throughout the house.

Lift the flap look who's talking! with baby signing

Look who's talking! A baby signing book full of lift-the-flaps and real-life sounds from Scholastic Early Learners! Lift the Flap: Look Who's Talking! is a multi-button sound book with flaps to link pictures, words, and baby signing.Each of the 10 sound buttons in the sound bar provides one word. Children can look at the picture, press the button, and hear the word! The book also features all …

If you were an exclamation point

If you were an exclamation point, you would yell! You would scream! You would shout, Hey! Over here! What else could you do if you were an exclamation point?

Eats, shoots & leaves : why, commas really do make a difference!

Punctuation play is at its finest in this New York Times #1 bestseller! Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely. You might want to eat a huge hot dog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quick…

Simple signs

Demonstrates through illustrations and brief text twenty-nine American Sign Language signs for words such as hello, cry, dog, and love

Baby high, baby low

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ISBN/ISSN

9781901223965

Collation

24 pages : illustration ; 20 cm

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Call Number

423 BLA