While chasing a leaf, a bear cub named Oliver wanders away from home and is unable to find his way back. Will Oliver make it back to his mom and dad? Pastel and charcoal illustrations accompany the text.
In this tale about the wonders and fun of the winter season, Grandmother Winter prepares by gathering up goose feathers and making a quilt out of them. Then, when the timing is just right, she gently shakes out a lovely snowfall on the world. As winter sets in, readers are invited to take a look at how the world changes. With rich color ...
Down by the sleepy, slimy marsh a duck gets stuck in the muck. Help! Help! Who can help? Can two fish, tails going swish? Or three moose, munching on spruce? Or four crickets, chirping in the thickets? One after another they try to pull the unlucky duck out of the icky, sticky muck.
The "Parents(" Best Book of the Year is now available in paperback. Bright, bold illustrations enhance the simple tale that introduces readers to simple counting concepts. Full color.
An old rocking chair is recycled through a neighborhood, broken down bit by bit as young and old find various uses for it, until it ends up as a tiny footstool in the hands of the original owner.
When a rhythmic read-aloud master pairs up with a Caldecott Honor-winning artist to visit endearing species of baby animals, the result can only be instant toddler appeal. QUACK! Mama Duck announces the hatching of five peeping, waddling, flapping, nibbling, wobbling, wibbling baby ducklings. Splish, splosh, splash! A lively, lilting text by ...
Now available in paperback. With infectious rhythms and down-home language, this original creation myth tells how Big Momma makes the world--even with a baby on her hip and the laundry piled up. Full color.
When a rhythmic read-aloud master pairs up with a Caldecott Honor-winning artist to visit endearing species of baby animals, the result can only be instant toddler appeal. HOP! The nonstop antics of five baby bunnies have them bumping, tumbling, zigging, zagging, wiggling, twitching, thumping -- and lunching! A lively, lilting text by Phyllis ...
Aunt Nancy outwits four unwelcome guests in these trickster tales from a masterful storyteller. From Cousin Lazybones to Old Man Trouble, visitors nearly try her patience. Illustrations.
With lyrical language and charming, pastoral images of ten little lambs, this enchanting book counts down from ten to one as each lamb drifts off to sleep. Includes ten shiny ribbons on the cover. Full color.
-- funny stories -- pictures that make words easy to guess -- eight-page stories that can be finished in one sitting, ensuring a satisfying reading experience -- notes for parents and teachers to help them guide beginning readers Brand New Readers are the most effective way to make reading a success -- the very first time.
If you really want to see a woodland caribou, you might try going to a place forgotten by time. It should be a hushed place, with perhaps rocky green hills and blue water, home to loons and beaver, lichen and yellow buttercups. With every step, this gentle journey brings us to a deeper and more unique connection with nature. Phyllis Root's ...
Kelly Povo and Phyllis Root welcome women whose heating bills have plummeted and whose girlish figures have become harder to find to the world of the "hot flash gal." This fun-filled book pays tribute to women coming into their ownQriding Harleys, shoveling snow in swimsuits, and having the time of their livesQas they celebrate the benefits of ...
This hunt for an elusive moose through woods, swamps, bushes, and hills is just as fun as the final surprise discovery of moose en masse. Children will laugh at the running visual joke--what is that little dog looking at?
-- funny stories -- pictures that make words easy to guess -- eight-page stories that can be finished in one sitting, ensuring a satisfying reading experience -- notes for parents and teachers to help them guide beginning readers Brand New Readers are the most effective way to make reading a success -- the very first time.
When Old Man Trouble pays a visit to Aunt Nancy, she must use her all her wits to outsmart him. Pretending that all the problems he presents to her are really bits of good luck, Aunt Nancy's sunny optimism soon frustrates Old Man Trouble and sends him on his way to try to ruin someone else's day. Illustrated with oil paintings.
Every day when Mama May finishes milking her cow Luella, she rewards the bovine with a kiss on the nose. Mama May's daughter Annalisa thinks kissing a cow is disgusting so when it's her turn to milk Luella she makes it clear that no kiss will be forthcoming. Knowing she won't be rewarded for her efforts, Luella refuses to yield any milk--leaving ...
Who hasn't found herself lost somewhere in mid-life asking, "What's it all about?" Enter Gladys, stage left, with her questions and her answers. Kelly Povo's hand-colored photos harmonize hilariously with Phyllis Root's witty remarks on women of a certain age finding their je ne sais quoi. 1-57324-969-6$14.95 / Red Wheel / Weiser LLC
With more than 70 flaps, a giant foldout, and a pop-up surprise, this fun book lets youngsters find out what happens when everyone's favorite storybook characters--including Little Jack Horner and Old Mother Hubbard--move into "the house that Jill built." Full color.
A cast of Halloween characters wonders who is saying "boo" in this whimsical lift-the-flap board book, but the narrator remains a secret to the very end. (Baby/Preschool)
Hot Flash Gal answers questions about falling spirits, getting down, and drying up with sly wit and side-spitting illustrations. Hot Flash Gal gives good advice, and every woman of a certain age should give this book to all of her friends.
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