Mr. and Mrs. Rogers can't be there for Amelia Bedelia's first day as their housekeeper, but leave her with a long list of things to do. Before setting to work, Amelia bakes her employers a lemon meringue pie--she makes good pies. Then she sets to work. "Change the towels in... Read More
"Phooey!" says little brown mouse, Wagner, "This is not my day." Usually he has a good sense of humor, but it's April 1 and everyone keeps fooling him. When he gets to school, his best friend Pearl, a gray rabbit, tells him their teacher, Ms. Star, is roller-skating around the... Read More
Cynthia Rylant's easy readers have changed children's reading, with her whimsical and wise series about young Henry and his great Dane, Mudge; Poppleton the pig and his animal pals; and, most endearingly, the grandfatherly, avuncular Mr. Putter and his sweet, elderly, but dignified orange kitty, Tabby. In their many little... Read More
Nate the Great is a detective. He works alone. One morning, while eating pancakes, Nate receives a phone call from a girl he knows, Annie. He hoped it would be someone calling about missing diamonds or a million dollars, but it's just Annie. She has lost a picture of her... Read More
In this amply-illustrated easy reader, Bink and Gollie go to the State Fair, have some fiascos and learn their future from a fortune-teller: they will always be friends. That is all they need!The book’s three short chapters feature brief text and plenty of comical illustrations: one about practical Bink; one... Read More
Kids may have met Binky earlier in Binky in Space, when this tubby hind-leg walking black and white kitty built a rocket ship in his litter box. Now,.he’s an official certified space cat, and his relentless pursuit of aliens (wasps) leads to his falling out of a first... Read More
What do you get when a bear walks through your vegetable garden?SQUASH. Of course! Bear wants to be a stand-up comic and tell jokes that make his friends laugh. And he’s got a million of ‘em. Bear has a plan, too. He writes his jokes, practices them in front... Read More
The title pretty much sums it up: this is a silly book, containing sillier rhymes, to tell the silliest of stories. It stars characters such as “a mixed up cow which flaps its wings and says meow” and “Noel -- the hole-dwelling, coal-eating, rock-and-roll mole” and is set in places... Read More
Reading is a walk in the park with Ben and Aggie! The trick with kids at the transitional reading stage is to offer them lots of books that hook them with appealing characters and engaging stories that they cannot wait to dig into. Ideally the situations will be recognizable,... Read More
Congratulations to Cynthia Rylant and Suçie Stevenson, the winners, in 2006, of the first annual Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for " . . . the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children’s literature known as beginning reader books . . ." Children have long loved this groundbreaking easy... Read More