While other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick seems to daydream the summer away. When dreary winter comes, it is Frederick the poet-mouse who warms his friends and cheers them with his words.
This "Parenting Magazine" Best Book of the Year and Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year features a kid full of fun ideas. For example, in the morning, gluing her brother's bunny slippers to the floor sounds like a good plan. But now she's not allowed to use glue anymore. And what about when she shows Joey Whipple her underpants--they're only underpants, right? Turn…
Stinky Face always has a lot of questions, and his patient mama always has the right answers! This time, Stinky Face is having trouble going to sleep in his own bed, and asks if he can sleep with her. After all, the water from the drippy faucet could sweep him away at any moment! But just like in previous stories, Mama knows how to reassure her Stinky Face to let him know that she's…
Everyone knows elephants can't fly: they're too heavy, and they have no wings! But what happens when three elephants work together to design a flying machine? How to Fly Like an Elephant combines an introduction to design and engineering with a story about persistence and teamwork. Featuring interactive folding elements and flaps, the elephants will need YOUR help to finally get off the ground.
The Stage 3 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B build on the reading skills from Stage 2 and are slightly longer.
Rookie Readers (Ages 5-7) have provided entertaining, high-quality introductions to reading for more than a generation. Each title features full-color, often hilarious illustrations and engaging stories that always involve a young child figuring out concepts or solving problems on his or her own. A girl and her brother retrieve a large box from the garbage and pretend that it is a cave, car,…
A polar bear in his underwear? Raindrops made of lemonade? Santa Claus searching for Easter eggs? Giggles, creative ideas, and Ask me another one! are sure to follow each page of What if? by Cheryl Steele. The possibilities for fun and learning are limited only by the imaginations of adults and children as they return to these questions time after time, creating new answers with each reading. C…
Howie is finally grown up enough to go to school, but all day long, he fantastically imagines all the fun and games that his mom and little brother Wally must be having. A little sibling jealousy? Homesickness? Mom has the perfect remedy -- she tells Howie about all the clean-up work they do while he's at school and then describes Wally's great big boring, long and fat all-afternoon nap.
Digger and Tiger spend all their time in the Yard. No one else dares comes there - it's their place. Then one day someone arrives, wanting to play. Worse still, it's a girl! But when Meggie builds a fantastic racing car, and then an amazing pirate ship, they have to admit she does have some brilliant ideas.