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Music
Celebrate Music in Our Schools Month! Share the joy of making music with your students.
Hootenanny!
A Festive Counting Book
By: Kimberly Ainsworth
Illustrated by: Jo Brown
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: August 30, 2011
Ages: 2 - 5
Now, 2 owls are ready to play.Hippity-hop, bip-bop, jive and sway!Hootenanny, hootenanny-- it's time for fun. Hootenanny, hootenanny--the party has begun! In this jazzy picture book, a hilarious cast of owls are working their...
Other Formats: eBook
I Love to Sing
By: Anna Walker
Illustrated by: Anna Walker
This edition: Paper Over Board, 32 pages
Publication date: June 7, 2011
Ages: 2 - 6
Ollie loves to sing. He loves to sing in his bed or in the park. He loves to sing with his dog, Fred. In this sweet, engaging picture book, Ollie celebrates singing, friendship and fun.
Mosquitoes Are Ruining My Summer!
And Other Silly Dilly Camp Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: April 26, 2011
Ages: 4 - 8
Smelly bunks! Attacking mosquitoes! Impossible arts and crafts, oh my! Bestselling team and authorities on all things seriously silly Alan Katz and David Catrow hike their hilarity out to summer camp to transform another set...
Other Formats: eBook
Ant and Grasshopper
By: Luli Gray
Illustrated by: Giuliano Ferri
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: March 8, 2011
Ages: 4 - 7
When Ant spies a carefree Grasshopper playing a fiddle outside on the lawn, Ant immediately harrumphs at the insect's foolishness and continues to go about his very serious business of gathering and counting his food for the...
The Gabba Land Band
(Part of Yo Gabba Gabba!)
Adapted by: Tina Gallo / Illustrated by: Karen Craig
This edition: Trade Paperback, 24 pages
Publication date: August 3, 2010
Ages: 3 - 5
The Gabba gang loves to play music. They will form a band. But first, they have to practice, practice, practice.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By: Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
Illustrated by: Lois Ehlert
This edition: Board Book, 36 pages
Publication date: June 22, 2010
Ages: 3 - 6
Chicka chick boom boom! Will there be enough room? There is always enough room for this rolicking alphabet chant that is been a children's favorite for over 20 years! Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault's rhythmic rhymes and...
Smelly Locker
Silly Dilly School Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: June 22, 2010
Ages: 3 - 8
A collection of fourteen Silly Dilly songs, focusing on the silliest aspects of school—from smelly lockers and stressing about testing to class picture day and lunchroom angst—now in paperback, a format easy to...
Other Formats: Hardcover
Who's That Singing?
A Pull-the-Tab Book
By: Jason Chapman
Illustrated by: Jason Chapman
This edition: Board Book, 12 pages
Publication date: June 15, 2010
Ages: 4 - 6
Someone's singing in the jungle and waking everyone up! Who could it be? One by one, jungle animals awaken--and kids can pull the tabs to make mouths and eyes open and close, bringing the animals to life! Find out whose tune...
Pepi Sings a New Song
By: Laura Ljungkvist
Illustrated by: Laura Ljungkvist
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: April 20, 2010
Ages: 4 - 8
Pepi the parrot is ready for a new song. So he decides to step out into the neighborhood to find some exciting things to sing about. He discovers yummy things (sprinkles! icing! dough!) at the bakery, colorful things (paint!...
Too Much Kissing!
And Other Silly Dilly Songs About Parents
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: December 29, 2009
Ages: 3 - 7
Fourteen song parodies about parents and children, including "They're Always on the Cell" (to the tune of "Farmer in the Dell"), "Watch Dad Exercise" (to the tune of "Do Your Ears Hang Low?"), "Dressed Up is Messed Up" (to the...
The Sound of Music
A Classic Collectible Pop-Up
By: Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lindsay & Crouse
This edition: Novelty, 14 pages
Publication date: October 27, 2009
Ages: above 3
Watch the hills literally come alivein this magnificent pop-up adventure drawn fromRodgers & Hammerstein’s classic, The Sound of Music.With paper engineering as unforgettable as eachtimeless melody, The Sound of Music...
Olivia Forms a Band
By: Ian Falconer
Illustrated by: Ian Falconer
This edition: Hardcover, 50 pages
Publication date: October 27, 2009
Ages: 3 - 7
Ian Falconer's OLIVIA FORMS BAND plus CD for only $12.99
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By: Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
Illustrated by: Lois Ehlert
This edition: Anniversary Edition Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 22, 2009
Ages: 3 - 6
A told B, and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree. In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the cocunut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no - Chicka Chicka Boom!...
Marsupial Sue
By: John Lithgow
Illustrated by: Jack E. Davis
This edition: Paper Over Board, 40 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
Sue doesn't want to be a kangaroo! She's sure there's something out there much better for her to be, so she goes off to explore. And sure enough, there are lots and lots of choices out there--but Sue's in for a surprise when...
Tolee's Rhyme Time
(Part of Ni Hao, Kai-lan)
Adapted by: Catherine Lukas / Illustrated by: Kellee Riley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 24 pages
Publication date: July 14, 2009
Ages: 4 - 6
Kai-Lan wants to form a band with her friends. Learning to play a new instrument takes a lot of practice and patience... and coming up with song lyrics that rhyme proves to be a big challenge for Tolee. This sweet story will...
Chicka Chicka ABC
By: Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
Illustrated by: Lois Ehlert
This edition: Board Book, 16 pages
Publication date: June 23, 2009
Ages: 1 - 5
A told B, and B told C, "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree." So begins the lively alphabet rhyme that children and their parents love to recite. Martin and Archambault's rhythmic chant and Caldecott Honor artist...
Catfish Kate and the Sweet Swamp Band
By: Sarah Weeks
Illustrated by: Elwood H. Smith
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 19, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
Catfish Kate and her all-girl band liven up the bayou with their rockin' tunes, but the Skunktail Boys are demanding a little peace and quiet. The boys want to read. The girls want to play. And the swamp's not big enough for...
Going, Going, Gone!
And Other Silly Dilly Sports Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2009
Ages: 3 - 8
Calling all silly dilly fans!
Get ready to take a giant time-out for laughs, 'cause the bestselling creators of Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs and Are You Quite Polite? Silly Dilly Manners Songs...
All God's Critters
By: Bill Staines
Illustrated by: Kadir Nelson
This edition: Hardcover, 36 pages
Publication date: January 27, 2009
Ages: 5 - 8
Big...small...quiet...loud...feathered, flippered, or furred....
All God's critters have a place in the choir! And this jubilant and raucous bunch is waiting for you to join in because everybody has a part to sing. It...
For Singing Out Loud!
SpongeBob's Book of Showstopping Jokes (Part of SpongeBob SquarePants)
By: David Lewman
This edition: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: 7 - 10
SpongeBob and the Bikini Bottom gang have tons of showbiz advice for aspiring performers everywhere in this hilarious new humor book! No strangers to the stage themselves, whether it's SpongeBob singing "Gary in the Shell,"...
Marsupial Sue Presents "The Runaway Pancake"
Book and CD
By: John Lithgow
Illustrated by: Jack E. Davis
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: 4 - 8
“I'm too fast, you're too slow. Pan, pan, patty-cake pan, I can get away from you, I can!” The much-loved story of the Runaway Pancake who pops out of the oven and is sure he can escape all who want to eat him is...
Other Formats: Hardcover
Where Did They Hide My Presents?
Silly Dilly Christmas Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: October 7, 2008
Ages: 2 - 8
It's Christmastime! While everyone else is singing "Frosty the Snowman" and "Winter Wonderland," ring in your holidays with "Our Friendly Mailman" and "Something in My Brother's Underpants"!
Songwriter and comedy writer par...
Other Formats: Hardcover
Flight of the Singing Pilot
(Part of Backyardigans, The)
Adapted by: Erica David / Illustrated by: Susan Hall
This edition: Trade Paperback, 24 pages
Publication date: September 30, 2008
Ages: 3 - 7
Pilot Uniqua takes to the skies to deliver singing telegrams! She only wants to make people smile - but grumpy pirate Captain Moody, Maharani Tasha, and the Abominable Snowman all run away after she sings. Can Pilot Uniqua...
Smelly Locker
Silly Dilly School Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2008
Ages: 3 - 8
A collection of fourteen Silly Dilly songs, focusing on the silliest aspects of school—from smelly lockers and stressing about testing to class picture day and lunchroom angst—now in paperback, a format easy to...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
On Top of the Potty
And Other Get-Up-and-Go Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: March 25, 2008
Ages: 2 - 5
From the hilarious and kid-pleasing team who brought us Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs and Are You Quite Polite?: Silly Dilly Manners Songs comes this selection of songs guaranteed to make potty...
Don't Say That Word!
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 3 - 8
In Art my pal Richie got inky. But Mom, that was only the start. 'Cause Richie then made the room stinky by blasting a really big... DON'T SAY THAT WORD! Michael can't wait to tell his mom all about his day at school. But...
Let it Shine
Three Favorite Spirituals
By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: January 9, 2007
Ages: 4 - 8
This little light of mine,
I'm gonna let it shine.
Let it shine,
let it shine,
let it shine.
With a kaleidoscope of color and cut paper, Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee and two-time Coretta Scott...
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By: Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
Illustrated by: Lois Ehlert
This edition: Book and CD Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: October 24, 2006
Ages: 3 - 6
A told B, and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree. In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the cocunut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no - Chicka Chicka Boom!...
Are You Quite Polite?
Silly Dilly Manners Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: September 26, 2006
Ages: 2 - 8
You all know...
"Do Your Ears Hang Low?"
and
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,"
but what about
"Are You Quite Polite?"
and
Quiet in the Library" ?!
Songwriter and comedy writer extraordinaire Alan Katz has done it again!...
Olivia Forms a Band
By: Ian Falconer
Illustrated by: Ian Falconer
This edition: Hardcover, 50 pages
Publication date: June 6, 2006
Ages: 3 - 7
Ian Falconer's OLIVIA FORMS BAND plus CD for only $12.99
Where Did They Hide My Presents?
Silly Dilly Christmas Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: October 4, 2005
Ages: 2 - 8
It's Christmastime! While everyone else is singing "Frosty the Snowman" and "Winter Wonderland," ring in your holidays with "Our Friendly Mailman" and "Something in My Brother's Underpants"!
Songwriter and comedy writer par...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Marsupial Sue Presents "The Runaway Pancake"
Book and CD
By: John Lithgow
Illustrated by: Jack E. Davis
This edition: Book and CD Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: August 30, 2005
Ages: 4 - 8
“I'm too fast, you're too slow. Pan, pan, patty-cake pan, I can get away from you, I can!” The much-loved story of the Runaway Pancake who pops out of the oven and is sure he can escape all who want to eat him is...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
The Singing Suspects
(Part of Nancy Drew Notebooks)
By: Carolyn Keene
Illustrated by: Jan Naimo Jones / Photographer: Michael Frost
This edition: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publication date: July 26, 2005
Ages: 6 - 9
ROCK-STAR REWARD? OR ROCK-STAR REGRET? There's nothing better than tickets to an Eric Stanley concert -- at least that's what Nancy, George, and Bess think. That's why they enter the River Heights Singing Contest! First...
Marsupial Sue
By: John Lithgow
Illustrated by: Jack E. Davis
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: August 31, 2004
Ages: 4 - 8
Sue doesn't want to be a kangaroo! She's sure there's something out there much better for her to be, so she goes off to explore. And sure enough, there are lots and lots of choices out there--but Sue's in for a surprise when...
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3
By: Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson
Illustrated by: Lois Ehlert
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: July 6, 2004
Ages: 3 - 7
1 told 2 and 2 told 3, "I'll race you to the top of the apple tree." One hundred and one numbers climb the apple tree in this bright, rollicking, joyous book for young children. As the numerals pile up and bumblebees...
Other Formats: eBook
The Remarkable Farkle Mcbride
By: John Lithgow
Illustrated by: C. F. Payne
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2003
Ages: 5 - 8
In his first book, actor and musician John Lithgow introduces a memorable character, a fickle yet lovable child prodigy who brings the sounds and rhythms of an orchestra to sprawling visual life. With a double gatefold showing...
I'm Still Here in the Bathtub
Brand New Silly Dilly Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2003
Ages: 2 - 8
If you like...
"Wheels on the Bus"
and
"Itsy Bitsy Spider,"
you'll go NUTS for
"The Meals at My Camp"
and
"Tiny Baby Brother"!
Songwriter and comedy writer par excellence Alan Katz has done it again! He's turned fourteen...
Elizabeth's Song
By: Michael Wenberg
This edition: Hardcover, 30 pages
Publication date: November 1, 2002
Ages: 4 - 8
Marsupial Sue
By: John Lithgow
Illustrated by: Jack E. Davis
This edition: Book and CD Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2001
Ages: 4 - 8
Sue doesn't want to be a kangaroo! She's sure there's something out there much better for her to be, so she goes off to explore. And sure enough, there are lots and lots of choices out there--but Sue's in for a surprise when...
Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 1, 2001
Ages: 2 - 6
Remember... "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad"? Songwriter and comedy writer extraordinaire Alan Katz has turned those and other old favorites on their ears and created new nonsense...
Gabriella's Song
By: Candace Fleming
Illustrated by: Giselle Potter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2001
Ages: 4 - 8
In the streets and canals of Venice, Gabriella can hear nothing but sweet music. The drying laundry goes slap-slap, the church bells go ting-aling-ling, and the lire go jing-aling-ling. Soon, Gabriella is humming her way...
Barnyard Song
By: Rhonda Gowler Greene
Illustrated by: Robert M. Bender
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2001
Ages: 3 - 6
"Moo, A-H-H-H-H-CHOO!"
Buzz, buzz, mew, mew, cock-a-doodle-doo...the barnyard is humming with a happy song. But when Bee buzzes in with a sneeze, the animals' voices soon turn to sniffles and snorts! How will Farmer cure...
The Remarkable Farkle Mcbride
By: John Lithgow
Illustrated by: C. F. Payne
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2000
Ages: 5 - 8
In his first book, actor and musician John Lithgow introduces a memorable character, a fickle yet lovable child prodigy who brings the sounds and rhythms of an orchestra to sprawling visual life. With a double gatefold showing...
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By: Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
Illustrated by: Lois Ehlert
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2000
Ages: 3 - 6
A told B, and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree. In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the cocunut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no - Chicka Chicka Boom!...
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
By: Lloyd Moss
Illustrated by: Marjorie Priceman
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: May 1, 2000
Ages: 4 - 8
Ingenious, sprightly rhymes and energetic, vivid pictures introduce the youngest readers to musical instruments and the composition of an orchestra.
Other Formats: Hardcover
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
By: Lloyd Moss
Illustrated by: Marjorie Priceman
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: March 1, 1995
Ages: 4 - 8
Ingenious, sprightly rhymes and energetic, vivid pictures introduce the youngest readers to musical instruments and the composition of an orchestra.
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Chicka Chicka ABC
By: Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
Illustrated by: Lois Ehlert
This edition: Board Book, 14 pages
Publication date: September 1, 1993
Ages: 1 - 5
A told B, and B told C, "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree." So begins the lively alphabet rhyme that children and their parents love to recite. Martin and Archambault's rhythmic chant and Caldecott Honor artist...
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By: Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
Illustrated by: Lois Ehlert
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1989
Ages: 3 - 6
A told B, and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree. In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the cocunut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no - Chicka Chicka Boom!...
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Celebrate in your school or library with these books from Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.
Seeing Green
Book Three in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective)
By: Carolyn Keene
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: April 6, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
In Green with Envy, book two in the Eco Mystery trilogy, Nancy continues her investigation into the ecological abuses at the Casa Verde resort in Costa Rica. Everything’s not as shiny and clean as it seems, and Nancy...
Other Formats: eBook
This Is Our World
A Story About Taking Care of the Earth (Part of Little Green Books)
By: Emily Sollinger
Illustrated by: Jo Brown
This edition: Board Book, 12 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: 4 - 6
Join the fun on this interactive journey while learning to clean the air, reduce pollution, recycle, and more. Nine double-sided puzzle pieces are included in this book so kids can create two different puzzles!
Poetrees
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: above 6
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his...
Other Formats: eBook
How Does a Seed Grow?
A Book with Foldout Pages
By: Sue Kim
Photographer: Tilde
This edition: Board Book, 14 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: 4 - 6
Watch seeds grow right before your eyes! Readers can follow the fun clues and guess what delicious fruits will grow from each seed. With a lift of each foldout flap, kids can watch the seeds take root in the soil, sprout from...
I Can Save the Ocean!
The Little Green Monster Cleans Up the Beach (Part of Little Green Books)
By: Alison Inches
Illustrated by: Viviana Garofoli
This edition: Paper Over Board, 24 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: 4 - 6
Max the Little Green Monster is a cute, furry green monster that loves the outdoors, especially the beach! But Max and his friends don't like cleaning up after themselves and after a picnic on the shore, they leave a big mess...
Green with Envy
Book Two in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective)
By: Carolyn Keene
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: February 9, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
In Green with Envy, book two in the Eco Mystery trilogy, Nancy continues her investigation into the ecological abuses at the Casa Verde resort in Costa Rica. Everything’s not as shiny and clean as it seems, and Nancy...
Other Formats: eBook
Green-Eyed Monster
Book One in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective)
By: Carolyn Keene
This edition: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publication date: December 1, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
George, Bess, and I were so excited when we won an amazing vacation at an eco-resort in Costa Rica. Fun, sun, surf -- all in the name of ecology and helping to keep our planet clean. But, as always, dirty business seems to...
Other Formats: eBook
Don't Throw That Away!
A Lift-the-Flap Book about Recycling and Reusing (Part of Little Green Books)
By: Lara Bergen
Illustrated by: Betsy Snyder
This edition: Board Book, 14 pages
Publication date: October 13, 2009
Ages: 4 - 6
You can keep that trash and reuse it in all kinds of wonderful ways! Do you see that old jar? Don't throw that away! You can turn it into...a new vase! Follow an eco-conscious super hero as he teaches kids how to recycle and...
SpongeBob Goes Green!
An Earth-Friendly Adventure / Little Green Nickelodeon (Part of SpongeBob SquarePants)
By: Molly Reisner
Illustrated by: Stephen Reed
This edition: Trade Paperback, 24 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
SpongeBob celebrates the Earth with an eco-friendly 8 x 8 story! Includes easy green tips for kids! Right in time for Earth Day (April 22, 2009), SpongeBob is going green in this original, environment-friendly story packed...
Easy to Be Green
Simple Activities You Can Do to Save the Earth (Part of Little Green Books)
By: Ellie O'Ryan
Illustrated by: Ivanke & Lola
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
Everyone's talking about the environment these days, especially kids. But what can kids do? A lot! This book is filled with cool coloring pages, Earth-saving tips, fun facts, and easy activities kids can do to help the...
Dora Celebrates Earth Day!
Little Green Nickelodeon (Part of Dora the Explorer)
By: Emily Sollinger
Illustrated by: Dave Aikins
This edition: Trade Paperback, 24 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 3 - 7
Dora explores the ways we can all make a difference and help save the planet by doing simple things at home.Perfect for teaching preschoolers about the environment and what they can do to help protect the planet, This book...
The Polar Bears' Home
A Story About Global Warming (Part of Little Green Books)
By: Lara Bergen
Illustrated by: Vincent Nguyen
This edition: Trade Paperback, 24 pages
Publication date: September 9, 2008
Ages: 4 - 6
Come along on an Arctic adventure with a little girl and her father and learn all about polar bears! This 8 x 8 storybook shows how global warming affects two baby polar bear cubs and their family. Includes tips for kids on...
I Can Save the Earth!
One Little Monster Learns to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle (Part of Little Green Books)
By: Alison Inches
Illustrated by: Viviana Garofoli
This edition: Trade Paperback, 24 pages
Publication date: September 9, 2008
Ages: 4 - 6
A new “green” series!: Little Green Books will educate children on what they can do to be more eco-friendly. The books in this line will be made from recycled materials, and the storylines will cover subjects such as...
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Share some poems with your students today!
Pond Circle
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Stefano Vitale
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: June 9, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
On a summer night by a small pond, all seems still. But a closer look reveals a world of activity—mayflies dart, beetles dive, frogs spring, skunks shuffle, and owls swoop. As a young girl watches, the circle of life...
The Underwear Salesman
And Other Jobs for Better or Verse
By: J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by: Serge Bloch
This edition: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 7 - 10
Have you ever talked at length with an exterminator?
Or had a heart-to-heart with an ice sculptor?
Or waxed philosophical with an acrobat?
No?
Well, look inside.
What's the Weather Inside?
By: Karma Wilson
Illustrated by: Barry Blitt
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 6 - 10
Here are more than 120 hysterical, philosophical, rhetorical, and commonsensical poems and pictures that explore the perfectly not-so-perfect world of picky kids, Miss Muffet's revenge, magic homework wands, yellow snow, and...
Other Formats: eBook
A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk
A Forest of Poems
By: Deborah Ruddell
Illustrated by: Joan Rankin
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
In a watery mirror the rugged raccoon admires his face by the light of the moon: the mysterious mask, the whiskers beneath, the sliver of cricket still stuck in his teeth. Take a lighthearted romp through four seasons in...
Other Formats: eBook
Dinothesaurus
Prehistoric Poems and Paintings
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: above 6
This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You’ll find a big Iguanodon, As well as clever Tro-o-don. There’s Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with GIANT necks . . . Step back in time in...
Other Formats: eBook
Going, Going, Gone!
And Other Silly Dilly Sports Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2009
Ages: 3 - 8
Calling all silly dilly fans!
Get ready to take a giant time-out for laughs, 'cause the bestselling creators of Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs and Are You Quite Polite? Silly Dilly Manners Songs...
Word Builder
By: Ann Whitford Paul
Illustrated by: Kurt Cyrus
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2009
Ages: 5 - 7
Begin your new construction with twenty-six letters...
Where would a sentence be without words? And what's a word without letters? Just like when constructing a building, you have to build your words from the ground...
Bella & Bean
By: Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Illustrated by: Aileen Leijten
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 10, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
Bella wants to write poems.
Bean wants to go for a walk.
Bella wants to write poems.
Bean wants Bella to look at her cute toes.
Could these two best friends be more different? But as Bean's attempt to coax Bella...
My People
By: Langston Hughes
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
Langston Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribue to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Charles R. Smith Jr. interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory,...
Sleepsong
By: George Ella Lyon
Illustrated by: Peter Catalanotto
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: December 23, 2008
Ages: 1 - 4
It's time.
Bears, birds, cats, whales, oceans the earth itself must call it a day.
Just the time to pick out this book, climb on a lap, and listen.
Just the time to watch the light rise and fall at the corners of...
The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry
By: Various
Afterword by: Steven Kellogg / Edited By: Bill Martin Jr / Foreword by: Eric Carle / Illustrated by: Various / with: Michael Sampson
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: November 4, 2008
Ages: 4 - 8
The definitive anthology of children's poetry, collected by a beloved author
Years in the making, this full-color treasury contains nearly two hundred poems, all of them handpicked by Bill Martin Jr. Traditional children's...
Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails
Patterns & Shapes . . . Naturally
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steve Jenkins
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: August 26, 2008
Ages: 3 - 7
Come explore the hidden shapes and patterns in nature. The peacock's flashy tail is a masterpiece of color and shape. A buzzing beehive is built of tiny hexagons. Even a snake's skin is patterned with diamonds. Poet Betsy...
Boogie Knights
By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Mark Siegel
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2008
Ages: 4 - 8
Place: the castle
Time: late
Event: the Madcap Monster Ball,
the rockin'-est
knee-knockin'-est
beboppin'-est
party of them all.
It's impossible to sleep through.
Just ask the prince
Or his off-the-wall...
Oops!
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: Edward Koren
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: 7 - 10
Find your funny bone and grab your giggles!
You're about to embark on an adventure through the hilarious landscape created by ALAN KATZ and EDWARD KOREN.
From the kingdom of His Royal Sloppiness (also known as the...
America at War
Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Edited By: Lee Bennett Hopkins / Illustrated by: Stephen Alcorn
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 8
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and paintings
divided into eight sections, one of America's most distinguished poets
and anthologists, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and internationally acclaimed
painter and...
Angels Watching Over Me
Adapted by: Julia Durango / Illustrated by: Elisa Kleven
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: 2 - 5
Every hour...
every minute...
every second...
angels...
watching...
over...
me.
What better way to reassure a young child than with the words of a soft, soothing spiritual exuberantly expanded by author Julia Durango and...
If
A Father's Advice to His Son
By: Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 6
What makes a boy into a man?
Courage.
Confidence.
Patience.
Integrity...
For more than one hundred years, this classic poems has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves.
In pictures and words, here's...
Today at the Bluebird Cafe
A Branchful of Birds
By: Deborah Ruddell
Illustrated by: Joan Rankin
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 4 - 10
It's all-you-can-eat at the Bluebird Café, A grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet, with berries and snails and a bluebottle fly, a sip of the lake and a bite of the sky. A world of birds unfolds in twenty-two vivid poems...
Twist
Yoga Poems
By: Janet S. Wong
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 7 - 10
Come explore yoga in a new way with TWIST, a collection of sixteen original poems sure to inspire even the youngest yogi! Feel the damp soil beneath you as Cobra, and grab hold of a star as Half-Moon. From Low Crow to Eagle...
Birdsongs
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steve Jenkins
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 9, 2007
Ages: 3 - 7
The sky is quiet.
The yard is quiet.
The creek is quietly gurgling.
Then...tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat! A red-capped woodpecker starts his rap for the day. Next comes nine soft coos from the...
Mathematickles!
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steven Salerno
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: June 20, 2006
Ages: 5 - 10
Follow a girl and her cat as they walk through the seasons, and note the mathematical concepts illustrated around them.
This unique collection of math-poems addresses the principles of addition, subtraction, division,...
Castaway Cats
By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Ponder Goembel
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2006
Ages: 4 - 7
A storm, a shipwreck, an ongoing ocean, then finally, finally a deserted isle. . . . Safety -- but wait! The fifteen swimmers braving the waves are, after all . . . kitties. They are not into cooperating until, until on this...
Way Far Away on a Wild Safari
By: Jan Peck
Illustrated by: Valeria Petrone
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 9, 2006
Ages: 3 - 6
Grab your binoculars
and follow me.
Let's travel far away
on a wild safari.
There are lots of fun trails!
Many sights to see!
As we hike, hike, hike,
on this wild safari.
Old Cricket
By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Ponder Goembel
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: May 9, 2006
Ages: 3 - 6
Old Cricket tells his missus why he can't fix the roof -- "I woke with a creak in my knee, dear wife."
He tells Cousin Katydid why he can't pick berries -- "I woke with a creak in my knee and a crick in my neck."
He tells...
Other Formats: Hardcover
When You Are Happy
By: Eileen Spinelli
Illustrated by: Geraldo Valerio
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: April 11, 2006
Ages: 3 - 6
When you are afraid
I will take your hand
and not let go--
In this delightful and lyrical text by renowned children's author Eileen Spinelli, a young girl finds reassurance from all of her family members and learns that love...
Cha-Cha Chimps
By: Julia Durango
Illustrated by: Eleanor Taylor
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2006
Ages: 2 - 6
In this jazzy countdown, a band of chimps sneaks out of bed and boogies on down to the local watering hole. One by one, each primate finds a partner and dances the night away—at least until Mama Chimp catches on and they...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Who Said Boo?
A Lift-the-Flap Book
By: Phyllis Root
Illustrated by: Ana Martín Larrañaga
This edition: Board Book, 14 pages
Publication date: August 9, 2005
Ages: 2 - 5
Someone said boo!
But who?
Lift the flaps
of this silly mystery
to find out
who's the spookiest
character of all!
So, What's It Like to Be a Cat?
By: Karla Kuskin
Illustrated by: Betsy Lewin
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 31, 2005
Ages: 3 - 8
So, what's it like to be a cat? I'm very glad you asked me that. Are cats afraid of the dark? Where do they prefer to sleep? What time do cats eat their breakfast? And what do they really think of dogs (and people!)? The...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
This Is the Van That Dad Cleaned
By: Lisa Campbell Ernst
Illustrated by: Lisa Campbell Ernst
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: April 26, 2005
Ages: 3 - 7
A father's work is never....
Counting Our Way to the 100th Day!
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steven Salerno
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: June 29, 2004
Ages: 4 - 8
Join the counting fun!
It takes just a poem a day to count down to the 100th day of school!
Keep count with numbers.
Keep count with stars.
Keep count with beans
in a big glass jar.
Keep a long tally
and keep count with...
Wonderful Words
Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
Illustrated by: Karen Barbour / Selected by: Lee Bennett Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2004
Ages: 6 - 11
Come, words, come in your every color. Whether we are sharing poems or secrets, acting onstage, or just telling jokes, the words we use are our best friends. Join acclaimed poet Lee Bennett Hopkins in this glorious...
Ellington Was Not a Street
By: Ntozake Shange
Illustrated by: Kadir Nelson
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2004
Ages: 5 - 11
In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in...
Knock on Wood
Poems About Superstitions
By: Janet S. Wong
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2003
Ages: 7 - 10
What superstitions do you follow?
In this collection of original poems, accomplished poet Janet S. Wong explores seventeen superstitions, some common, others that are less known, and delves into their origins as well as...
Fireflies at Midnight
By: Marilyn Singer
Illustrated by: Ken Robbins
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2003
Ages: 5 - 9
A robin cheerfully greets the day at dawn.
A horse nibbles grass under the heat of the midday sun.
A rabbit stands still, disappearing into the grass at dusk.
As evening falls, a frog tells the world that he's the king of the...
Here's What You Do When You Can't Find Your Shoe
(Ingenious Inventions for Pesky Problems)
By: Andrea Perry
Illustrated by: Alan Snow
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2003
Ages: 4 - 8
Do spiders make you squirm? Stop turning down picnic invitations today and get a Super Spider Spotter. You'll never be surprised by one again!
Are you a messy eater? Buy a Crumbunny and watch it nibble up your problems!
Is...
The Spider and the Fly
By: Mary Howitt
Illustrated by: Tony DiTerlizzi
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
Ages: above 6
"'Will you walk into my parlor,' said the Spider to the Fly..." is easily one of the most recognized and quoted first lines in all of English verse. But do you have any idea how the age-old tale of the Spider and the Fly...
Other Formats: Hardcover
Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?
By: Shel Silverstein
Illustrated by: Shel Silverstein
This edition: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2002
Ages: 3 - 7
Shel Silverstein Who wants a cheap Rhinoceros? Looking for a new pet? Bored with cats, dogs, goldfish, gerbils, and hamsters? How about a cheap rhinoceros? Shel Silverstein's loving look at the joys of rhino ownership may...
Sometimes I Wonder If Poodles Like Noodles
By: Laura Numeroff
Illustrated by: Tim Bowers
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2002
Ages: 4 - 9
Sometimes I wonder
do lions use irons,
Do poodles
eat noodles,
Can chickens
read Dickens...
WHAT'S THAT? You don't know the answers, you haven't a clue? That's okay -- sometimes it's fun just to wonder. In this collection of...
Mrs. Brown on Exhibit
And Other Museum Poems
By: Susan Katz
Illustrated by: R.W. Alley
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2002
Ages: 6 - 10
Mrs. Brown loves museums -- and so does her class! In fact, these cultural connoisseurs are just wild about field trips. Whether it's sneaking up on an ancient Egyptian mummy, walking into a room of fluttering butterflies, or...
Spectacular Science
A Book of Poems
By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by: Virginia Halstead
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2002
Ages: 5 - 8
Science is about questions --
asking them, searching for answers -- as Lee Bennett Hopkins shows in this brilliant collection of poems.
With sensitivity and wonder, poets explore biology, chemistry, physics, and more. They...
If the Shoe Fits
Voices From Cinderella
By: Laura Whipple
Illustrated by: Laura Beingessner
This edition: Hardcover, 80 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella takes a fresh look at an old and favorite story. In thirty-three poems it brings to life not only the voices of well-loved characters, but also voices of characters not usually heard...
Give Yourself to the Rain
Poems for the Very Young
By: Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrated by: Teri Weidner
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2002
Ages: 4 - 8
Margaret Wise Brown once observed, "To write well for children, one must love the things that children love." And write well for children she did -- with a deep love for and a keen perception of all things great and small in...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Doodle Dandies
Poems That Take Shape
By: J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by: Lisa Desimini
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2002
Ages: 4 - 8
I am a nee dle of steel glass & cement 102 stories high on a clear day you can see 200 miles out into the Atlantic or watch hundreds of ants scurrying like people on the sidewalks below & the yellow bugs racing recklessly...
Other Formats: Hardcover
The Flag of Childhood
Poems From the Middle East
Selected by: Naomi Shihab Nye
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
In this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore. Eloquent pieces from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and...
Other Formats: eBook
Marvelous Math
A Book of Poems
By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by: Karen Barbour
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2001
Ages: 5 - 8
Other Formats: Hardcover
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2001
Ages: 4 - 8
"And God stepped out on space,
And he looked around and said:
I'm lonely -- I'll make me a world."
-- James Weldon Johnson
Thus begins Coretta Scott King Award-winner Ashley Bryan's collection of inspiring excerpts of...
The Movable Mother Goose
By: Robert Sabuda
Illustrated by: Robert Sabuda
This edition: Novelty, 12 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1999
Ages: 3 - 7
Robert Sabuda's The Movable Mother Goose puts a new spin on traditional nursery rhymes as they come alive in a glorious explosion of color! This pop-up extravaganza by award winner Robert Sabuda is destined to become a new...
The Tree Is Older Than You Are
A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mex
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: April 1, 1998
Ages: 7 - 10
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Share some poems with your students today
Mosquitoes Are Ruining My Summer!
And Other Silly Dilly Camp Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: April 26, 2011
Ages: 4 - 8
Smelly bunks! Attacking mosquitoes! Impossible arts and crafts, oh my! Bestselling team and authorities on all things seriously silly Alan Katz and David Catrow hike their hilarity out to summer camp to transform another set...
Other Formats: eBook
Spinster Goose
Twisted Rhymes for Naughty Children
By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Sophie Blackall
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 8, 2011
Ages: above 5
Some children are simply too naughty for Mother Goose to handle. Luckily her sister Spinster Goose knows just how to deal with these uncouth urchins. Her school is home to some world-class troublemakers: they bite and pinch,...
Oh, How Sylvester Can Pester!
And Other Poems More or Less About Manners
By: Robert Kinerk
Illustrated by: Drazen Kozjan
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: March 8, 2011
Ages: 4 - 8
Robert Kinerk pokes fun at what can happen when good manners are neglected. From Eleanor Ickity who is served nothing that she likes to eat or Sylvester who can pester and pester and pester, this charming cast of characters...
Other Formats: eBook
Too Much Kissing!
And Other Silly Dilly Songs About Parents
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: December 29, 2009
Ages: 3 - 7
Fourteen song parodies about parents and children, including "They're Always on the Cell" (to the tune of "Farmer in the Dell"), "Watch Dad Exercise" (to the tune of "Do Your Ears Hang Low?"), "Dressed Up is Messed Up" (to the...
Pond Circle
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Stefano Vitale
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: June 9, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
On a summer night by a small pond, all seems still. But a closer look reveals a world of activity—mayflies dart, beetles dive, frogs spring, skunks shuffle, and owls swoop. As a young girl watches, the circle of life...
The Underwear Salesman
And Other Jobs for Better or Verse
By: J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by: Serge Bloch
This edition: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 7 - 10
Have you ever talked at length with an exterminator?
Or had a heart-to-heart with an ice sculptor?
Or waxed philosophical with an acrobat?
No?
Well, look inside.
What's the Weather Inside?
By: Karma Wilson
Illustrated by: Barry Blitt
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 6 - 10
Here are more than 120 hysterical, philosophical, rhetorical, and commonsensical poems and pictures that explore the perfectly not-so-perfect world of picky kids, Miss Muffet's revenge, magic homework wands, yellow snow, and...
Other Formats: eBook
A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk
A Forest of Poems
By: Deborah Ruddell
Illustrated by: Joan Rankin
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
In a watery mirror the rugged raccoon admires his face by the light of the moon: the mysterious mask, the whiskers beneath, the sliver of cricket still stuck in his teeth. Take a lighthearted romp through four seasons in...
Other Formats: eBook
Dinothesaurus
Prehistoric Poems and Paintings
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: above 6
This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You’ll find a big Iguanodon, As well as clever Tro-o-don. There’s Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with GIANT necks . . . Step back in time in...
Other Formats: eBook
Going, Going, Gone!
And Other Silly Dilly Sports Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2009
Ages: 3 - 8
Calling all silly dilly fans!
Get ready to take a giant time-out for laughs, 'cause the bestselling creators of Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs and Are You Quite Polite? Silly Dilly Manners Songs...
Word Builder
By: Ann Whitford Paul
Illustrated by: Kurt Cyrus
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2009
Ages: 5 - 7
Begin your new construction with twenty-six letters...
Where would a sentence be without words? And what's a word without letters? Just like when constructing a building, you have to build your words from the ground...
Bella & Bean
By: Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Illustrated by: Aileen Leijten
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 10, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
Bella wants to write poems.
Bean wants to go for a walk.
Bella wants to write poems.
Bean wants Bella to look at her cute toes.
Could these two best friends be more different? But as Bean's attempt to coax Bella...
My People
By: Langston Hughes
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
Langston Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribue to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Charles R. Smith Jr. interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory,...
Sleepsong
By: George Ella Lyon
Illustrated by: Peter Catalanotto
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: December 23, 2008
Ages: 1 - 4
It's time.
Bears, birds, cats, whales, oceans the earth itself must call it a day.
Just the time to pick out this book, climb on a lap, and listen.
Just the time to watch the light rise and fall at the corners of...
The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry
By: Various
Afterword by: Steven Kellogg / Edited By: Bill Martin Jr / Foreword by: Eric Carle / Illustrated by: Various / with: Michael Sampson
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: November 4, 2008
Ages: 4 - 8
The definitive anthology of children's poetry, collected by a beloved author
Years in the making, this full-color treasury contains nearly two hundred poems, all of them handpicked by Bill Martin Jr. Traditional children's...
Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails
Patterns & Shapes . . . Naturally
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steve Jenkins
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: August 26, 2008
Ages: 3 - 7
Come explore the hidden shapes and patterns in nature. The peacock's flashy tail is a masterpiece of color and shape. A buzzing beehive is built of tiny hexagons. Even a snake's skin is patterned with diamonds. Poet Betsy...
Boogie Knights
By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Mark Siegel
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2008
Ages: 4 - 8
Place: the castle
Time: late
Event: the Madcap Monster Ball,
the rockin'-est
knee-knockin'-est
beboppin'-est
party of them all.
It's impossible to sleep through.
Just ask the prince
Or his off-the-wall...
Oops!
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: Edward Koren
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: 7 - 10
Find your funny bone and grab your giggles!
You're about to embark on an adventure through the hilarious landscape created by ALAN KATZ and EDWARD KOREN.
From the kingdom of His Royal Sloppiness (also known as the...
America at War
Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Edited By: Lee Bennett Hopkins / Illustrated by: Stephen Alcorn
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 8
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and paintings
divided into eight sections, one of America's most distinguished poets
and anthologists, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and internationally acclaimed
painter and...
Angels Watching Over Me
Adapted by: Julia Durango / Illustrated by: Elisa Kleven
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: 2 - 5
Every hour...
every minute...
every second...
angels...
watching...
over...
me.
What better way to reassure a young child than with the words of a soft, soothing spiritual exuberantly expanded by author Julia Durango and...
If
A Father's Advice to His Son
By: Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 6
What makes a boy into a man?
Courage.
Confidence.
Patience.
Integrity...
For more than one hundred years, this classic poems has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves.
In pictures and words, here's...
Today at the Bluebird Cafe
A Branchful of Birds
By: Deborah Ruddell
Illustrated by: Joan Rankin
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 4 - 10
It's all-you-can-eat at the Bluebird Café, A grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet, with berries and snails and a bluebottle fly, a sip of the lake and a bite of the sky. A world of birds unfolds in twenty-two vivid poems...
Twist
Yoga Poems
By: Janet S. Wong
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 7 - 10
Come explore yoga in a new way with TWIST, a collection of sixteen original poems sure to inspire even the youngest yogi! Feel the damp soil beneath you as Cobra, and grab hold of a star as Half-Moon. From Low Crow to Eagle...
Birdsongs
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steve Jenkins
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 9, 2007
Ages: 3 - 7
The sky is quiet.
The yard is quiet.
The creek is quietly gurgling.
Then...tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat! A red-capped woodpecker starts his rap for the day. Next comes nine soft coos from the...
Mathematickles!
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steven Salerno
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: June 20, 2006
Ages: 5 - 10
Follow a girl and her cat as they walk through the seasons, and note the mathematical concepts illustrated around them.
This unique collection of math-poems addresses the principles of addition, subtraction, division,...
Castaway Cats
By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Ponder Goembel
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2006
Ages: 4 - 7
A storm, a shipwreck, an ongoing ocean, then finally, finally a deserted isle. . . . Safety -- but wait! The fifteen swimmers braving the waves are, after all . . . kitties. They are not into cooperating until, until on this...
Way Far Away on a Wild Safari
By: Jan Peck
Illustrated by: Valeria Petrone
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 9, 2006
Ages: 3 - 6
Grab your binoculars
and follow me.
Let's travel far away
on a wild safari.
There are lots of fun trails!
Many sights to see!
As we hike, hike, hike,
on this wild safari.
Old Cricket
By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Ponder Goembel
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: May 9, 2006
Ages: 3 - 6
Old Cricket tells his missus why he can't fix the roof -- "I woke with a creak in my knee, dear wife."
He tells Cousin Katydid why he can't pick berries -- "I woke with a creak in my knee and a crick in my neck."
He tells...
Other Formats: Hardcover
When You Are Happy
By: Eileen Spinelli
Illustrated by: Geraldo Valerio
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: April 11, 2006
Ages: 3 - 6
When you are afraid
I will take your hand
and not let go--
In this delightful and lyrical text by renowned children's author Eileen Spinelli, a young girl finds reassurance from all of her family members and learns that love...
Cha-Cha Chimps
By: Julia Durango
Illustrated by: Eleanor Taylor
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2006
Ages: 2 - 6
In this jazzy countdown, a band of chimps sneaks out of bed and boogies on down to the local watering hole. One by one, each primate finds a partner and dances the night away—at least until Mama Chimp catches on and they...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Who Said Boo?
A Lift-the-Flap Book
By: Phyllis Root
Illustrated by: Ana Martín Larrañaga
This edition: Board Book, 14 pages
Publication date: August 9, 2005
Ages: 2 - 5
Someone said boo!
But who?
Lift the flaps
of this silly mystery
to find out
who's the spookiest
character of all!
So, What's It Like to Be a Cat?
By: Karla Kuskin
Illustrated by: Betsy Lewin
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 31, 2005
Ages: 3 - 8
So, what's it like to be a cat? I'm very glad you asked me that. Are cats afraid of the dark? Where do they prefer to sleep? What time do cats eat their breakfast? And what do they really think of dogs (and people!)? The...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
This Is the Van That Dad Cleaned
By: Lisa Campbell Ernst
Illustrated by: Lisa Campbell Ernst
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: April 26, 2005
Ages: 3 - 7
A father's work is never....
Counting Our Way to the 100th Day!
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steven Salerno
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: June 29, 2004
Ages: 4 - 8
Join the counting fun!
It takes just a poem a day to count down to the 100th day of school!
Keep count with numbers.
Keep count with stars.
Keep count with beans
in a big glass jar.
Keep a long tally
and keep count with...
Wonderful Words
Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
Illustrated by: Karen Barbour / Selected by: Lee Bennett Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2004
Ages: 6 - 11
Come, words, come in your every color. Whether we are sharing poems or secrets, acting onstage, or just telling jokes, the words we use are our best friends. Join acclaimed poet Lee Bennett Hopkins in this glorious...
Ellington Was Not a Street
By: Ntozake Shange
Illustrated by: Kadir Nelson
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2004
Ages: 5 - 11
In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in...
Knock on Wood
Poems About Superstitions
By: Janet S. Wong
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2003
Ages: 7 - 10
What superstitions do you follow?
In this collection of original poems, accomplished poet Janet S. Wong explores seventeen superstitions, some common, others that are less known, and delves into their origins as well as...
Fireflies at Midnight
By: Marilyn Singer
Illustrated by: Ken Robbins
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2003
Ages: 5 - 9
A robin cheerfully greets the day at dawn.
A horse nibbles grass under the heat of the midday sun.
A rabbit stands still, disappearing into the grass at dusk.
As evening falls, a frog tells the world that he's the king of the...
Here's What You Do When You Can't Find Your Shoe
(Ingenious Inventions for Pesky Problems)
By: Andrea Perry
Illustrated by: Alan Snow
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2003
Ages: 4 - 8
Do spiders make you squirm? Stop turning down picnic invitations today and get a Super Spider Spotter. You'll never be surprised by one again!
Are you a messy eater? Buy a Crumbunny and watch it nibble up your problems!
Is...
The Spider and the Fly
By: Mary Howitt
Illustrated by: Tony DiTerlizzi
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
Ages: above 6
"'Will you walk into my parlor,' said the Spider to the Fly..." is easily one of the most recognized and quoted first lines in all of English verse. But do you have any idea how the age-old tale of the Spider and the Fly...
Other Formats: Hardcover
Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?
By: Shel Silverstein
Illustrated by: Shel Silverstein
This edition: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2002
Ages: 3 - 7
Shel Silverstein Who wants a cheap Rhinoceros? Looking for a new pet? Bored with cats, dogs, goldfish, gerbils, and hamsters? How about a cheap rhinoceros? Shel Silverstein's loving look at the joys of rhino ownership may...
Sometimes I Wonder If Poodles Like Noodles
By: Laura Numeroff
Illustrated by: Tim Bowers
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2002
Ages: 4 - 9
Sometimes I wonder
do lions use irons,
Do poodles
eat noodles,
Can chickens
read Dickens...
WHAT'S THAT? You don't know the answers, you haven't a clue? That's okay -- sometimes it's fun just to wonder. In this collection of...
Mrs. Brown on Exhibit
And Other Museum Poems
By: Susan Katz
Illustrated by: R.W. Alley
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2002
Ages: 6 - 10
Mrs. Brown loves museums -- and so does her class! In fact, these cultural connoisseurs are just wild about field trips. Whether it's sneaking up on an ancient Egyptian mummy, walking into a room of fluttering butterflies, or...
Spectacular Science
A Book of Poems
By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by: Virginia Halstead
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2002
Ages: 5 - 8
Science is about questions --
asking them, searching for answers -- as Lee Bennett Hopkins shows in this brilliant collection of poems.
With sensitivity and wonder, poets explore biology, chemistry, physics, and more. They...
If the Shoe Fits
Voices From Cinderella
By: Laura Whipple
Illustrated by: Laura Beingessner
This edition: Hardcover, 80 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella takes a fresh look at an old and favorite story. In thirty-three poems it brings to life not only the voices of well-loved characters, but also voices of characters not usually heard...
Give Yourself to the Rain
Poems for the Very Young
By: Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrated by: Teri Weidner
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2002
Ages: 4 - 8
Margaret Wise Brown once observed, "To write well for children, one must love the things that children love." And write well for children she did -- with a deep love for and a keen perception of all things great and small in...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Doodle Dandies
Poems That Take Shape
By: J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by: Lisa Desimini
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2002
Ages: 4 - 8
I am a nee dle of steel glass & cement 102 stories high on a clear day you can see 200 miles out into the Atlantic or watch hundreds of ants scurrying like people on the sidewalks below & the yellow bugs racing recklessly...
Other Formats: Hardcover
The Flag of Childhood
Poems From the Middle East
Selected by: Naomi Shihab Nye
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
In this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore. Eloquent pieces from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and...
Other Formats: eBook
Marvelous Math
A Book of Poems
By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by: Karen Barbour
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2001
Ages: 5 - 8
Other Formats: Hardcover
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2001
Ages: 4 - 8
"And God stepped out on space,
And he looked around and said:
I'm lonely -- I'll make me a world."
-- James Weldon Johnson
Thus begins Coretta Scott King Award-winner Ashley Bryan's collection of inspiring excerpts of...
The Movable Mother Goose
By: Robert Sabuda
Illustrated by: Robert Sabuda
This edition: Novelty, 12 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1999
Ages: 3 - 7
Robert Sabuda's The Movable Mother Goose puts a new spin on traditional nursery rhymes as they come alive in a glorious explosion of color! This pop-up extravaganza by award winner Robert Sabuda is destined to become a new...
The Tree Is Older Than You Are
A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mex
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: April 1, 1998
Ages: 7 - 10
St. Patrick's Day
Spread the luck of the Irish with these books from Simon & Schuster.
Too Many Leprechauns
Or How That Pot o' Gold Got to the End of the Rainbow
By: Stephen Krensky
Illustrated by: Dan Andreasen
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: January 9, 2007
Ages: 4 - 6
On St. Patrick's Day, leprechauns are lucky. But on every other day of the year, they make for noisy neighbors -- and they're turning the entire town of Dingle upside down! Fortunately, Finn O'Finnegan always has a clever...
The Luck of the Irish
(Part of Robin Hill School)
By: Margaret McNamara and Mike Gordon
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: January 9, 2007
Ages: 4 - 6
It's St. Patrick's Day! Katie makes shamrocks to help celebrate and ends up learning what it means to be lucky.
Other Formats: eBook
Women's History Month
Celebrating the accomplishments of women throughout history and present day.
Night Flight
Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
By: Robert Burleigh
Illustrated by: Wendell Minor
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 22, 2011
Ages: 4 - 8
Award-winning author Robert Burleigh has captured Amelia Earhart's first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932. She was only the second person to do this – and the first woman. Rich in detail, feeling and incident this...
Other Formats: eBook
Jeannette Rankin
First Lady of Congress
By: Trish Marx
Illustrated by: Dan Andreasen
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: February 7, 2006
Ages: 7 - 10
I've been trying to help women have better lives, using the laws we already have. But what if the laws are wrong, or don't go far enough?"
So was the thinking of Jeannette Rankin before she decided to run for Congress,...
Keep Climbing, Girls
By: Beah E. Richards
Illustrated by: R. Gregory Christie / Introduction by: LisaGay Hamilton
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: January 3, 2006
Ages: 4 - 8
The only way to make a bid
for a girl's equality is to climb right up to the
toppermost bough
of the very tallest tree.
The dynamic ode to girl power was written by noted Afro-American actor, poet, and playwright Beach E....
