It's fun to kick a soccer ball and to score goals. Soccer balls are made in a special way so that you can kick them fast and straight.
This story introduces children to key works by Van Gogh, Monet, Chagall, Gauguin, and Jackson Pollock. When Daisy decides to enter a painting competition, she sets off around the world traveling in the footsteps of great artists in search of inspiration. Entering the Famous Painting Contest, young artist Daisy explores the world of classic art for inspiration for what her subjects will be and …
This energetic book takes young readers on a journey with a very curious baby elephant who has one question on his mind: What do crocodiles eat for dinner? But whenever he asks this question, he gets a spanking! Though he’s never seen a crocodile before, the baby elephant sets out to the banks of a river to find the answer to his question. Geoffrey Patterson has simplified the original text f…
Especially if the tattler happens to be an armadillo with ears as tall a jack rabbit's and as wide as a steer's horns -- an armadillo who can hear anything and everything with his humongous ears.Armadillo Tattletale loves nothing better than eavesdropping on other animals and telling tales about what he hears. That is, until ... Armadillo's friends give him the how-come and the why-not of tattl…
Mog loves her garden, but somehow it seems to have completely disappeared overnight. What Mog doesn't realize is that the flappy-floppy thing that has replaced her garden is in fact a marquee put up for a cat show. Mog hides in the house and is oblivious to the cats of various sizes and colors who parade themselves hoping to be winners. But soon curiosity takes over and Mog makes a spectacular …
When the water in the village pond begins to disappear overnight, Katerina the goose makes the sensible decision to follow the leak, leading her family into an exciting underground adventure. Who knows where the geese will surface next? Meanwhile, the villagers try to solve the problem of the empty pond, but only little Millie Buswell seems to notice that its inhabitants are missing too! Will s…
Annie and her dog, Oscar, have had a busy day playing in the snow. Somehow Annie's red mitten has disappeared in all the fun. They look high and low. . . . It's not on the sledding hill, and it's not by the snow castles. Maybe an eagle carried it off to keep its baby's head warm. Or maybe a mouse is using it as a sleeping bag. When the sun goes down, Annie and Oscar have to give up their search…
To Kathy the greatest thing in the world is a best friend. And Louise Jenkins is hers. They do everything together, from sharing their chocolate milk at lunch to riding Golden Silverwind, their make-believe horse who lives in the imaginary stable between their houses.
Roberto is excited about the paper mouse he made in school, until Amy asks, "Does it do anything?" Roberto isn't sure, so he leaves the mouse on his window sill and goes to bed. Before long his apartment building is quiet, but Roberto can't fall asleep. So he gets up to look out the window and sees Archie's cat being chased by a big, snarling dog! Roberto doesn't know what to do, but fate steps…