Joe Rhatigan

Learn about our solar system in this science reader packed with NASA photos and space facts. For up-to-date information (including about Pluto and its fellow dwarf planets) and stellar photos and illustrations, kids eager for mind-blowing non-fiction need look no further!

Planets, Moons, Stars, and More!

Space

Little Sloth

Heather Smith

From easy toys and great gifts to wonderful room decorations, these 50 projects give children a terrific way to recycle and feel creative, too. “This appealing volume is not only a craft book; it also educates users to be more aware of packaging, waste, and of making conscious decisions about how products are used and discarded. Years of Earth Day ideas flow from between the covers of this creative book.”—School Library Journal.

Awesome Things to Make with Recycled Stuff

'With dozens of doodle game to play, challenges to complete, and activities to attempt, the fun will never end."--Back cover

Doodle Games Activity Book

Teaches techniques for soapmaking, and offers project instructions for creating soaps embedded with toys, scented soaps, and unusual-looking soaps.

50 Fun & Fabulous Soaps to Melt & Pour

Soapmaking

Quinn Gray, Private Detective, is known at her school as the person to hire when you need a mystery solved. When her friend Jessica starts receiving mysterious notes at her desk, will Quinn be able to crack the case? This mystery fiction book supports early fluent readers on their journey to independent reading. Engage students natural curiosity with fun and inspiring real-world stories. Perfect for shared or guided reading, this book cultivates lifelong reading success.

The Case of the Mysterious Notes ebook

With Little Genius books, curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. With super-simple concepts about the sun, planets, comets, and more, each spread features the wonderful illustrations of Mattia Cerato along with rhyming text that delights while it instructs. With the sun as your guide, meet Mercury, Venus, Earth, and the rest of the planet gang, as you travel further and further to the outer reaches of the solar system. Each planet has one funny identifying feature that will help kids remember a fascinating fact about it. For instance, Earth is wearing goggles. Why? Because it has lots and lots of water! Little Genius: Solar System reads like a fun story, making it the perfect introduction to our night sky.

Little Genius: Solar System

Learn about our solar system in this Step 3 Science Reader packed with NASA photos and space facts! Step into Reading, the most trusted name in early readers, delivers an introduction to the final frontier that kids can read themselves! For up-to-date information (including about Pluto and its fellow dwarf planets) and stellar photos and illustrations, kids eager for mind-blowing nonfiction need look no further! Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics. They are ideal for children who are ready to read on their own.

Space: Planets, Moons, Stars, and More!

Open any page, read the instructions, and begin having silly, interactive fun in mere moments! American Presidents Activity Book features inventive games, quizzes, puzzles, and challenges all related to America's presidents. Kids can flip to any page and start having silly, interactive fun in mere moments, all while learning a fascinating facts about the important people who have led our country. All they need is a pencil (or two) to enjoy activities like Two Truths and a Lie, Yankee Doodles, Presidential Pardons, and more. From trivia to brainteasers to puzzles, these pencil games are full of factoids and tidbits that are great for understanding U.S. history and the presidency. Who knows-these games could even inspire a bright, young girl or boy to run for president someday!

American Presidents Activity Book

Lewis Carroll

Charles Nurnberg

Eric Puybaret

Lewis Carroll's tale of a world gone topsy-turvy gets a unique picture-book retelling of the beginning of Alice's journey, with elegantly simplified text that keeps the astonishing adventures and wide-eyed amazement of the original.

Alice in Wonderland - Down the Rabbit Hole

At once inspirational, silly, and fun, I Love a Book is a lavishly illustrated picture book that celebrates reading and children’s marvelous capacity for enjoyment and imagination. Calling all kids who love nothing better than getting lost in a great book! This is our celebration of books, reading, and our imaginations. In I Love a Book , you'll get to see all different types of books and see where to find them from the simple, lyrical prose. As you keep reading, the words becomes more frantic as a young reader encounters pirates sailing the sea, a classroom of monsters "learning math with their paws," and even an animal doctor making house calls in a helicopter! With lavish illustrations nearly spilling off the page, the young reader finally reaches the end of an exhausting day, ready for bed... and more books. I Love a Book is for anyone who loves spending time with their books and wants to instill this passion in the next generation.

I Love a Book

This delightfully silly story picks up where Goldilocks and the Three Bears left off. Goldilocks visits family in the city, but can't remember which apartment they live in. As she knocks on several doors, she meets a forest's worth of wild animal neighbors, and her newly learned manners are put to the test! Will she remember the lessons she learned from the three bears? This short, 32-page chapter book features colorful, lively illustrations and will appeal to kids who enjoy imaginative retellings of classic stories.

Goldilocks Visits Her Aunts

50 Cool Projects & Activities for Exploring the World

Geography Crafts for Kids

This stunning new version of a classic is the best way to enter Wonderland ... without actually falling down the rabbit hole. On its 150th anniversary in 2015, Lewis Carrolls tale of a world gone topsy-turvy gets a unique picture-book retelling of the beginning of Alices journey: the first ever, with elegantly simplified text that keeps all of the astonishing adventures and wide-eyed amazement of the original. Includes many of the classic Carroll characters Alice and the White Rabbit, the Blue Caterpillar, Bill the Lizard and more.

A Modern Retelling

Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole

Find out what happens after the dish runs away with the spoon in this classic nursery rhyme retold for today's kids. Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon . . . So begins the new and expanded version of this 500-year-old classic nursery rhyme. What happens next in the rest of this original manuscript promises to be silly, fun, and a must read-aloud for young children. Follow along as a fish and a noodle try to climb up a tree, where a dancing elephant awaits, and a giraffe in a cradle cries for soup and cheese, while a sneezing sippy cup tells him to hush. There are giggles aplenty as each turn of the page offers new surprises and super-silly situations.

Hey Diddle Diddle: Classic Nursery Rhymes Retold

Shares the stories of inventions that, despite considerable promise, proved to be too strange or unwieldy to succeed, profiling their inventors while describing what was learned along the way. By the author of White House Kids.

Inventions That Could Have Changed the World... But Didn't!

With 50 Wacky Inventions Throughout History, history has never been so fun--or wacky! Have you ever heard of a bike TV? Or a bird diaper? 50 Wacky Inventions Throughout History describes 50 inventions that seem too crazy to be true--but are! Whether useful, entertaining, or just plain silly, these mind-boggling inventions and gadgets from yesterday, today, and tomorrow will surprise and delight fun-fact lovers of all ages.

Weird Inventions that Seem Too Crazy to be Real!

50 Wacky Inventions Throughout History

Rudyard Kipling's tale of a young boy lost in the jungles of India introduces young children to the magic of the original classic tale. The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Adventures adapts Rudyard Kipling's timeless tale of a young boy lost in the jungles of India for young children. This delightfully written and illustrated book focuses on the magic of the jungle and the one-of-a-kind characters and fantastical situations that Mowgli finds himself in. The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Adventures tells the simple story of Mowgli, who is raised by Mother and Father Wolf and taught the ways of the jungle by Baloo the bear. While this is a faithful introduction to the classic, it doesn't attempt to cover all the action from the original story and its adaptations-the story focuses on the parts children will understand and enjoy. The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Adventures is a magical introduction children will recall when they are older and ready for the original work.

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