This guide is suitable for ages 4 to 12 years. Featuring over 150 activities, this guide teaches the styles, works, and techniques of the great masters - Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and more. A brief biography of each artist is included with a fully illustrated child-tested art activity, featuring painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ...
Shows and tells what busy people do every day to build houses, sail ships, fly planes, keep house, and grow food. "Positively guaranteed to please any small child."--"The New Yorker." Full-color illustrations.
With a clever blend of humor and math fun, this funny, fresh, and poignant novel about competing lemonade stands captures the one-of-a-kind bond between brother and sister, and subtly explores how arguments can escalate beyond anyone's intent.
Money, math, entrepreneurship, and friendship are at the heart of this humorous middle grade novel. From a very early age, Greg Kenton has been obsessed with money. By the time he finished fourth grade, Greg had already amassed over $3,000 from various odd jobs and ingenious plans. In sixth grade, after noticing how many kids had extra quarters, ...
Everyone envies Mr. Gilly, the town's trash collector--he gets to drive a REALLY cool blue truck everyday, and travel all around the town collecting everyone's garbage. Whenever he's done cleaning up Trashy Town, it's sparkling-clean, with NOT ONE SINGLE TRACE of yucky garbage anywhere. After his work is done, nice Mr. Gilly goes home to take a ...
Ride along with Big Frank and the rest of the crew as they race to the scene of an accident, inspect the local KwikShop, demonstrate fire safety at Niceview Elementary School, and battle a raging brush fire. In between calls, hang out at the firehouse with Big Frank and the gang. It's all in a day's--and night's--work for firefighters. ********* ...
Basset hound Beatrice has no use for books, but she's forced to accompany her older brother to the library since he's looking after her and has to work on a paper for school. Beatrice continuously pesters her beleaguered brother to leave, but they both must suffer through the arrangement. He notices an announcement for a storytime room and drops ...
Merrill's engaging story follows the rising success of sixth grader Rufus, who develops and markets his own toothpaste before retiring at age 13. ". . . functions both as a light story and an explication of free enterprise mechanics".--Booklist. Black-and-white illustrations.
What if? Your picture was taped inside teenage boys' lockers across America, your closets were bursting with never-worn designer clothing, and the tabloids constantly asked whether you were losing your 'good girl' status? It's a glamorous life, but 16-year-old Kaitlin Burke, co-star of one of the hottest shows on TV, is exhausted from the ...
It seems like the summer of dreams come true for Hollywood princess Kaitlin Burke: the media loves her (again), super-cute and funny Austin Meyers is finally her boyfriend and she's starring in a film by her all-time favourite director Hutch Adams. What could be sweeter? But life on set is not as perfect as the makeup and costumes. And with an old ...
One of the author's series of regional books for children, this is the story of a fierce-tempered child of a migrant family that journeys from Alabama sharecropper shack in a desperate search for security. Fortunately, Judy has the good sense to learn something from each experience.
Stan sells hot dogs out of his van which he parks every day on a street corner. When a winter storm arrives, Stan and his wife, Emma, are happy to give shelter to a group of stranded school children and their bus driver. While waiting for the snow plow, the children feast on hot dogs and enjoy Stan's stories. Color illustrations accompany the text ...
The author of When Cats Dream, The Moonglow Roll-O-Rama and 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving returns in a tale inspired by his paperboy. When the whole neighborhood is still asleep, the paperboy is in the garage, rolling papers and filling his red bag to the top. With his faithful dog at his side, the paperboy sets off in a mood of ...
In this reissue, Policeman Small makes sure the town's kids get to school safely. He also helps an ambulance and fire truck get through the intersection, and even leads a parade on his motorcycle. During the rush, Policeman Small spreads his cheer by saying hello to all the people passing in cars.
As the last season of "Family Affair" comes to a close, teen star Kaitlin Burke is no closer to deciding what's next after the show ends, even with cast of opinionated family members and staff who all think they know what's best for her. What's a starlet to do when she has the world at her feet and can't decide her next move?
House painters Drippy and Sticky arrive to paint the Busytown Fire Station, but with Smokey and the other brave firefighters racing in and out to rescue people, there are quite a few wet paint mishaps. Full color.
In this beginning-reader book, a girl named Sue Snue imagines what she would like to be when she grows up. Will she become a farmer? A foot doctor? Or maybe even the President of the United States? Color illustrations accompany the rhyming text.
In this funny and touching first novel about family, a young girl abandoned by her mother finds love and encouragement in a "family" of mismatched women in a small-town beauty parlor.
The Life Lessons with Junior series is a four book series created to teach basic principles about money and, yes, life to children of all ages. From working and saving, to giving and spending, these wonderful stories will teach real life 'stuff' and the stories are so fun, children won't even know they're learning. The second of four books in the ...
A best-selling author-illustrator presents his newest novelty book featuring brave firefighters, whose busy day is illustrated by three-dimensional pop-ups, pull-tabs, and other movable parts. The suspenseful text, paired with illustrated word labels, explain what each piece of equipment does and how the team works together to put out a fire. Full ...
The Life Lessons with Junior series is a four book series created to teach basic principles about money and, yes, life to children of all ages. From working and saving, to giving and spending, these wonderful stories will teach real life 'stuff' and the stories are so fun, children won't even know they're learning. The final of four books in the ...
Summer vacation in their small Maine town does not look too promising until twelve-year-old Gina and four of her friends make a pact to become millionaires before school starts in September.
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Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
