Mary Ann Hoberman

Seven fussy eaters find a way to surprise their mother.

The Seven Silly Eaters

Betty Fraser

Lists in rhyme the dwellings of various animals and things.

A House is a House for Me

Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman's bestselling Sing-Along Stories are perfect for reading together, with over one million copies sold in all formats. You know the song, but you've never heard it like this! A familiar melody with uproariously funny new lyrics are presented alongside bright, zany illustrations in this picture book that includes music, stories, and games. These outrageous rhymes will appeal to reluctant readers, eager readers, silly readers, and the whole family together!

The Lady with the Alligator Purse

Oliver Tolliver lives all alone and has one of everything in his little house-one table, one chair, one apple, and one pear. To him, it's perfect. But when he invites Peggoty Small over to admire his arrangement, he finds she has quite another opinion. She feels his one-of-each house leaves no room for anyone else! Suddenly Oliver sees she's right, and he finds a pair for every single thing in his house. In the end he realizes that sharing makes room for friends. As only she can, Mary Ann Hoberman deftly crafts a simple, comforting story that speaks to every child's experience. Accompanied by Marjorie Priceman's bold, colorful illustrations, this picture book is destined to become a story time favorite.

One of Each

A special quilt keeps a little girl from feeling homesick when she sleeps over with her grandparents.

I'm Going to Grandma's

An expanded version of the familiar children's song describing what the little spider does after being washed out of the water-spout.

The eensy weensy spider

When you learn a poem by heart, it becomes a part of you. You know it in your mind, in your mouth, in your ears, in your whole body. And best of all, you know it forever. From the creators of the bestselling You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series comes this new collection of poems especially suitable for learning by heart and saying aloud. With personal introductions by former Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman -- as well as her own time-tested tips and tools for memorization and recitation -- and vivid illustrations by Michael Emberley featuring his trademark wit and lively characters, Forget-Me-Nots includes more than 120 works from both classic and contemporary poets, from childhood favorites to lesser-known treasures. This anthology will inspire a love of learning poetry!

Poems to Learn by Heart

Forget-Me-Nots

Exploring the wonders of childhood, an amusing collection of poetry encompasses an array of topics, from rhyming observations of centipedes to verse celebrations of birthdays, and comes complete with full-color illustrations. Reprint.

100 Favorite Poems

The Llama Who Had No Pajama

When his parents leave a young boy in charge of the farm for a day, chaos erupts as the animals take over the house. Includes the lyrics to "Skip to my Lou."

Skip to My Lou

Hugely popular in both hardcover and board book formats, this fun story--that children will want to sing, chant, read, and clap to--is now available in paperback. Full color.

Miss Mary Mack

Carolyn Hopley

This exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life. At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: "Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We are the pioneers." Coming to Age is a collection of dispatches from the great poet-pioneers who have been fortunate enough to live into their later years. Those later years can be many things: a time of harvesting, of gathering together the various strands of the past and weaving them into a rich fabric. They can also be a new beginning, an exploration of the unknown. We speak of "growing old." And indeed, as we too often forget, aging is growing, growing into a new stage of life, one that can be a fulfillment of all that has come before. To everything there is a season. Poetry speaks to them all. Just as we read newspapers for news of the world, we read poetry for news of ourselves. Poets, particularly those who have lived and written into old age, have much to tell us. Bringing together a range of voices both present and past, from Emily Dickinson and W. H. Auden to Louise Gluck and Li-Young Lee, Coming to Age reveals new truths, offers spiritual sustenance, and reminds us of what we already know but may have forgotten, illuminating the profound beauty and significance of commonplace moments that become more precious and radiant as we grow older.

Growing Older with Poetry

Coming to Age

What is a family? Who is a family? Either a lot or a few is a family; But whether there's ten or there's two in your family, All of your family plus you is a family! There is something for everyone in this celebration of families - poems about families of all sizes and configurations, about brothers and sisters, adoptees and stepsiblings, parents and grandparents, even a special ode to the only child. Both poems and Hafner's warm expressive illustrations convey the sense of what makes family life at once so wonderful and so unpredictable. Told from a child's point of view, the poems are perfect for reading alone or in the classroom and for family story times as well.

A Collection of Family Poems

Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers

In an irresistible fourth You Read to Me collaboration, Mary Ann Hoberman and Michael Emberley have added spooky tales to their bestselling and award-winning series--and it's a scary lot of fun. You've never met witches, zombies, ghosts, or ghouls like these before!

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together

In this familiar children's nursery song, Mary arrives at school one day with her friendly lamb following close behind her. Going against school rules, the students sneak the adorable lamb inside where they teach it the alphabet, to count ot ten, and even how to play ball! This hilarious adaptation is complete with musical notation and an activity page.

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Seven fussy eaters find a way to surprise their mother

Verses describe a variety of foods, activities, smells, sounds, words, places, people, feelings, and other things perceived as being cozy.

The Cozy Book

Where does everyone and everything live? A House Is a House for Me is a rollicking rhyme about houses. Some of the houses are familiar, such as an anthill and a dog kennel, while others are surprising, such as a corn husk and a pea pod. This longtime favorite is filled with pictures that parents and children will want to look at again and again in a beautifully produced, deluxe full-sized edition.

A House Is a House for Me

Bill Grogan's pesky goat has been eating clothes and getting into lots of trouble. When Bill gets rid of him he ends up on a train with an engineer and a group of raucous barnyard animals and sets off on a great adventure. This hilarious story is written in verse.

Bill Grogan's Goat

This sumptuous collection of over 60 favourite nursery rhymes is beautifully illustrated with warmth and humour by best-loved artist Penny Dann in her fun, contemporary new artwork style. Rhymes are arranged in seven themed sections, perfect to dip into. A foreword by former US Children's Poet Laureate and respected children's author Mary Ann Hoberman explores the joy of sharing rhymes with your baby, making this the perfect addition to a baby's nursery bookshelf and a gift to be treasured for years to come.

The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes for Your Baby

Each short, rhymed story invites two readers to read their own parts, and then read the passage in the central column together, in a spooky collection filled with zombies, ghosts, and ghouls. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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