Santa Calls
In 1802, when Champollion was eleven years old, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt’s ancient hieroglyphs. He faced great challenges over the next twenty years as he searched for the elusive key to the mysterious writing.
Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Seven Blind Mice
What will happen when the sheep go trick-or-treating? Could there be wolves lurking in the woods, hoping to waylay them as they return home with their bags full of goodies? In crisp verse and whimsically eerie pictures, Nancy Shaw and Margot Apple tell the lively story of a remarkable Halloween adventure. Simple sentences, rhyming text, and a humorous tone make this the perfect treat for beginning readers.
Sheep Trick or Treat
Shoes
Feiffer’s distorted perspectives on the things that “loom large” capture a range of human emotion with his usual deftness. Kids will commiserate with the saucer-eyed boy as he skates out of control, is afraid he won’t be picked for either team, or gets stuck high in a tree. And maybe things won’t be so scary next time.
Some Things Are Scary
Much has been written about the vast scientific importance of space exploration, but very little about the human side of being a member of an astronaut crew. In this book, with the help of journalist Susan Okie, Sally Ride shares the personal experience of traveling into space. America’s first woman astronaut answers questions most frequently asked about a journey through space.
To Space and Back
I Spy Year-Round Challenger! A Book of Picture Riddles
Stranger in the Woods
On the day of her birth, nothing about Angelica Longrider suggested that she would one day become the greatest woodswoman of Tennessee. It’s not long before Angelica is vanquishing varmints such as Thundering Tarnation, a huge bear with a taste for settlers’ winter rations, and swallowing entire lakes in a gulp.
Swamp Angel
Swimmy
Cassie doesn’t have to actually go to the beach; she’s got her very own “tar beach” on the roof of her Harlem apartment building. From there, her imagination takes her on a journey through time and space. The artist’s quilt story was successfully adapted into this modern classic.
Tar Beach
All the relatives arrive for an enormous Thanksgiving dinner. But this year nothing seems to go right. First the turkey slides down the icy hill and into the pond — plop! splash! Then the bakery sells out of pies. It looks like it’s going to be a pretty bleak holiday…until Grandmother reminds everyone that there’s more to Thanksgiving than a turkey and trimmings.
Thanksgiving at the Tappleton’s
The baby beebee bird, new to the zoo, is singing his song…ALL NIGHT LONG! Nothing the animals do or say will stop him. They come up with a plan to teach the baby beebee bird that nighttime is really best for sleeping.
The Baby Beebee Bird
Join the crew and find out how rockets, probes, telescopes, and space shuttles work! Illustrations and text introduces young readers to the amazing variety of spaceships past, present, and ready to blast off into the future.
The Best Book of Spaceships
When two mice fall in love with the same pumpkin, it gets twice as much care! With one mouse taking care of it by day, and another taking care of it by night, it soon becomes the biggest pumpkin ever. They discover what is happening one night and decide to work together to enter their pumpkin in a contest.
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
The Brand New Kid
The Carrot Seed
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
Habari gani? What news? Synthia Saint James presents the language and origins of Kwanzaa with enticing writing and bold pictures that honor the people and colors of Africa.
The Gifts of Kwanzaa
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
The Greatest Muhammad Ali
The Leaf Men & the Brave Good Bugs
Ms. Frizzle, an unflappable science teacher, drives the magical school bus into a cloud where the children shrink to the size of water droplets and follow the course of water through the city’s waterworks system.