Climb aboard the earth for the adventure of a lifetime As you travel, watch shadows move from here to there as day stretches into night, and feel the weather change as one season rolls into the next. All these amazing things happen because the earth is constantly in motion. Spinning and circling, g[...]
Farmer Bill has a problem: every cow, chicken and horse has lost a mitten. Is there a mitten thief lurking about? Readers will help Bill find the culprit and learn about odd and even numbers too, an important step in understanding our number system. For ages 3 years and up.[...]
Usher in National Poetry Month with Mr. Tiffin and his students, stars of the hugely popular "How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?" and "The Apple Orchard Riddle."
Once again, Margaret McNamara sets her playful, child-friendly story in the classroom, and this time, poetry--from metaphors to acrostics to[...]
If Wilson Williams thought multiplication was difficult, he is finding fractions impossible. And when his parents hire a math tutor for him, he is sure he's the only kid in the history of Hill Elementary to have one. Wilson is determined to make sure that no one finds out, not even his best friend, [...]
Wilson Williams worries about passing his times-table tests
Wilson has a hard time with math, especially with Mrs. Porter's timed multiplication tests. If only he were as quick as Laura Vicks, the smartest kid in third grade, or as quick as his brother, Kipper -- a kindergartner. Wilson's mother[...]
Here is an adorable picture book for curious kids, which explores skip counting and estimation in a fun pumpkin-themed classroom experiment. "How many seeds are in a pumpkin?" Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk. Robert, the biggest kid, gu[...]
Spanish and English text are combined in this tale about a little girl who simply must find a bathroom and quick, enhanced with full-color illustrations highlighting the Spanish text.[...]
From eating doughnut sticks and putting up the decorations, all the kids are excited about the big birthday party about to take place in a colorfully illustrated alphabet picture book with bilingual verse and entries for the letters "rr", "ch," and other Spanish letters.[...]
In a spare, powerful text and evocative illustrations, the Newbery medalist Katherine Applegate and the artist G. Brian Karas present the extraordinary real story of a special gorilla.
Captured as a baby, Ivan was brought to a Tacoma, Washington, mall to attract shoppers. Gradually, public press[...]
This wide-ranging collection of bedtime poems is an inspired baby gift that will find a treasured place on children's nightstands everywhere.
From the hoot of an owl to the horns of the city, from children giggling in the bath to the hushed notes of a lullaby, here is an exquisite anthology that[...]
The clouds are gathering above a city street and soon -- "tap, tap, boom, boom "As a thunderstorm rolls in, people of all stripes race down to the subway to get away from the crackling rain and wind. With quirky wordplay and infectious rhymes, Elizabeth Bluemle crystallizes an unexpected moment of [...]