Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Margaret M. Holmes
Publisher: Magination Press
Product Description
Sherman Smith saw the most terrible thing happen. At first he tried to forget about it, but something inside him started to bother him. He felt nervous and had bad dreams. Then he met someone who helped him talk about the terrible thing, and made him [...]
Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy. At least he was, until the night his bulletin board fell off the wall and flattened him. At only half an inch thick, Stanley can slide under doors, mail himself across the country in an envelope, and fly like a kite!
And that’s [...]
Rating: (172 reviews)
Author: Judy Schachner
Publisher: Puffin
Product Description
My name is Skippito Friskito.
I fear not a single bandito.
My manners are mellow,
I’m sweet like the Jell-O,
I get the job done, yes indeed-o.
Skippyjon Jones is no ordinary kitten. Oh, no. . . .He’s actually El Skippito, a great sword-fighter ready to battle banditos the world over! With a [...]
Rating: (53 reviews)
Author: Dr Seuss
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Product Description
Started by Seuss, finished by Prelutsky, and splendiferously illustrated by
Lane Smith, this is the children’s book publishing event of the year! Big–56
pages–and bursting with energy, here is a joyous ode to individuality,
starring an unsinkable teacher named Miss Bonkers and quirky little
Diffendoofer School, which must [...]
Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
“I WISH WE COULD GO THERE!”
When they are in the tree house, Jack and Annie only have to say those simple words and the tree house starts to spin, faster and faster. . . . And then, poof!—the kids find themselves flying [...]
Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
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Product Description
When it comes to wild animals, everyone knows that there are certain things you just don’t do. It’s clearly a bad idea to tease a tiger, pull a python’s tail, or bother a black widow spider. But do you know how dangerous it [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Michael Berenstain
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Product Description
When Sister Bear receives a locket for her birthday with the Golden Rule inscribed on it, she wonders what the verse means. And although Mama Bear explains it, it isn’t until she befriends a lonely newcomer at school that she understands what the rule looks like in action.
Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: School Zone Publishing Company Staff
Publisher: School Zone Pub
Book Description
School Zone Flash Cards offer a convenient way to drill basic skills. They also provide interesting and entertaining information.
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: The Blue Sky Press
Product Description
Parents and children can never have enough ways to say “I love you”–and now, America’s favorite dinosaurs are giving families a funny book, perfect for bedtime, storytime, anytime. Even when little dinosaurs are naughty, it’s important to remind them that no matter what they do, [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Natasha Wing
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Product Description
It’s December 23, and Christmas is just around the corner. But one family is having trouble getting its act together. Once again, Natasha Wing follows the rhythms and meter of Clement Moore’s classic Christmas poem, yet gives it her own entirely original twist.
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: James Herriot
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Product Description
“Christmas can never go by without my remembering a certain little cat.”
So begins The Christmas Day Kitten, another true story from James Herriot’s rich experience as a country vet. As always, the tale includes a vivid group of characters on two legs and four: Mrs. Pickering [...]
Author: Joan Walsh Anglund
Publisher: Scholastic Trade
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Artful Doodlers
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Product Description
It’s Christmas Eve in LazyTown! But Robbie Rotten has a few tricks up his sleeve. He wants to make sure that no one has a merry Christmas. Will Robbie ruin Christmas for everyone?
Author: Sue Kassirer
Publisher: Disney Pr (Juv Trd)
Product Description
The lovable puppies from “101 Dalmatians” learn the true meaning of Christmas. Wizzer is contemplating what this magical holiday truly means, and the answer he’s been searching for comes in a place he least expects it. Full color Available.
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Product Description
Another in the successful Story Book Set and Advent Calendar series is a christmas carol, Charles Dickens’s great story of the true meaning of Christmas. Read in sequence, the 24 miniature full-color books tell the memorable tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, his ghostly visitors, and the family [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Sandpiper
Product Description
Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year-old Allie goes to The Nutcracker with her grandfather who shares the memories of the special day he had when he took Allie’s mother to her first performance of the ballet.
Author: Fiona Watt
Publisher: Usborne Books
Author: Margaret (RTL) Hodges
Publisher: Holiday House
Product Description
A tinker’s child who grows up helping everyone in her Irish village is rewarded in her old age with a cabin built by fairies on Christmas Eve.
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Brian Wildsmith
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Product Description
Who followed Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem? The shepherds tending their flocks nearby, the wise men–and also Rebecca, Mary and Joseph’s young neighbor. With his richly detailed paintings, glowing vibrant colors and shining gold, Wildsmith gives readers a fresh vision of the familiar Christmas [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Various
Publisher: Disney Press
Product Description
The magic of the Christmas season is brought to life with favorite Disney characters in the second edition of this popular title. Join Cinderella, Mickey Mouse, Ariel, Pinocchio, plus new stories with Nemo and the gang from Toy Story, and over a dozen more Disney characters in festive holiday tales. [...]
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Katharine Holabird
Publisher: Puffin
Product Description
When Angelina Ballerina sees old Mr. Bell all alone at Christmastime, she decides to bring him some holiday cheer. Cousin Henry doesn’t want to help— until he finds that there’s a real Santa Claus living in their town! Angelina’s Christmas is a heartwarming story that is perfect for [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
This scrumptious follow-up to the bestselling Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons captures the spirit of the holiday season. From making the same kind of cookies at the same time each year (tradition) to decorating them with lots of sprinkles (celebrate), youngsters will gobble up vocabulary words and holiday [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Billy Steers
Publisher: Tractor Mac, Inc
Product Description
The snow builds and so does the worry on Stony Meadow Farm. Where are Sibley the Workhorse, Farmer Bill, and the town Christmas Tree? There will be no town tree lighting unless Tractor Mac can brave the blizzard, resue his friends, and help a lot of [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Kate Mcmullan
Publisher: Cartwheel
Product Description
It’s Christmas Eve, and Fluffy and his team of guinea pigs are delivering the presents. Why? Because Santa needs help from the cleverest rodent around!
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Dan Gutman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
The weirdness never stops!
A.J. has to go see Miss Laney, the speech teacher, which makes no sense at all because he already knows how to talk. Miss Laney has him say weird tongue twisters and forces him to be the lead in the third-grade play, Romeo & Juliet. [...]
Author: Daisy Meadows
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Product Description
This Valentine’s Day isn’t so sweet!
Where’s the love? Jack Frost and his goblins have stolen the magical objects that make Valentine’s Day so special. Now sweethearts are sad, and friends and families are fighting! Even Rachel and Kirsty aren’t getting along.
When Juliet the Valentine Fairy asks the girls for help, [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Alma Flor Ada
Publisher: Rayo
Product Description
Resuenen con alegría
los cánticos de mi tierra
que viva el Niño Jesús
que ha nacido en Nochebuena.
It’s time to sing out with joy
the songs that are sung in my land
in praise of the precious Child
born this holy Christmas evening.
Come share the joy of a Hispanic Christmas!
In this warm and [...]
Author: Peter Catalanotto
Publisher: Orchard Books
Product Description
At bedtime on Christmas Eve, Katie is visited by the Sandman, Jack Frost, and the Tooth Fairy, all of whom hastily leave when they hear the arrival of the most important visitor of all.
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Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Product Description
Saint Nicholas visits a sleeping household on Christmas Eve.
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Jane O’connor
Publisher: HarperFestival
Product Description
Nancy prepares an elegant Easter affair in this fancy new lift-the-flap book!
Throwing a fabulous and fancy Easter party is a very big job—and Nancy and Bree are in charge of decorating! This book includes thirteen flaps that open to reveal hidden surprises that will delight all festive Fancy [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Dylan Thomas
Publisher: David R Godine
Product Description
This is one of Ardizzone’s last books, and in our mind one of his best; a gentle and beguiling memoir of a Christmas spent in Cardiff when Thomas was a child. Ardizzone’s quick, sure brushwork is not only the perfect complement to a timeless classic but [...]
Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Joan Steiner
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Product Description
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . and the more you look, the more you see.
Using everything from dog biscuits and candy canes to gloves and starfish, Joan Steiner has created an entrancing three-dimensional world for puzzlers of all [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Rick Osborne
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Product Description
A wonderful tale for Christmas about the origin of the hanging and filling of Christmas stockings. This story has universal appeal across the world.
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Suzy Kline
Publisher: Puffin
Product Description
It’s Christmastime, but with Miss Mackle in the hospital, no one feels much like celebrating. Maybe Harry can think of a way to cheer up Miss Mackle and put the holiday spirit back in Room 2B.
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Catriona Clarke
Publisher: Usborne Books
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Tom Hegg
Publisher: Waldman House Press
Product Description
On a lonely Christmas a nephew remembers his beloved great-aunt and realizes the value of her legacy, a message of advice revealing the true spirit of the season.
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Phil Roxbee Cox
Publisher: Usborne Books
Product Description
This illustrated easy reader blends a phonic-based text with a funny story and is designed to help children crack the reading code with ease.
Rating: (60 reviews)
Author: Patricia Thomas
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
The last time the elephant sneezed, he blew monkeys out of the trees, stripes off the zebra, and spots off the leopard. This rollicking new edition of the favorite nonsense verse again shows the panic that follows the elephant’s dreaded announcement.
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Shirley Neitzel
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Product Description
Rhyme follows rhyme as layer after layer of winter clothing (“bunchy and hot, wrinkled a lot, stiff in the knee, and too big for me!”) is first put on and then taken off to the relief of the child bundled inside. Clever rebuses and jaunty illustrations make [...]
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Egmont UK
Product Description
A classic Christmas story in an irresistible format, from the best-selling author/illustrator team, Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman.
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Marie Hall Ets
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
Published over 30 years ago, Nine Days to Christmas remains fresh and relevant. Ceci’s first Christmas posada party and pinata have made her Mexican town come alive for generations of readers. “The youngest child will be completely transported by this lovely story”.–The Atlantic. Three-color illustrations.
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Sue Carabine
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Product Description
Santa doesn’t know lures from bait, so some fishermen gather to help him this Christmas Eve.
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Product Description
Category: HolidayOne Christmas morning, a boy finds a rocking horse under his tree. When he climbs on his back, they ride off on the most wondrous adventures–jousting with knights and capturing outlaws. But as the years go by & the boy outgrows his favorite childhood friend, [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Stan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
There’s a whole lot to learn one Christmas morning in Bear Country when Papa Bear teaches his son a thing or two about skiing, skating, and sledding.
