Books and More for Children

Click on links to check the catalog.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Dinosaurs Eye to Eye: Zoom in on the World's Most Incredible Dinosaurs

Provides a zoomed-in encounter with dozens of the most incredible creatures ever to walk, stalk, swim or fly across the prehistoric planet and is packed with awesome imagery that brings children face-to-face with dinosaurs and other phenomenal prehistoric creatures.

Check Catalog

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Storytelling: Art and Technique

Storytelling is one of our oldest activities, a way to convey values and keep cultures alive. Stories are also an important educational tool. By age six, children who have been read to or told stories have a vocabulary of 20,000 words compared to a vocabulary of 3,000 words for their less-lucky counterparts. Stories awake imagination, soothe the soul, and engender a life-long love of books and reading.

Check Catalog

Monday, April 12, 2010

My Mother Is So Smart

Mothers are so amazing is there anything they can't do? This little boy's mom is so smart she can make the perfect Halloween costume, drive a truck, dress like a movie star, dance the polka, make popsicles, teach the whole neighborhood to sing and even stand on her head.

Through the heartfelt words of a little boy awed by all the things his mom can do, this glowing celebration of mothers has a universal appeal that will make young readers everywhere want to share it with their own moms.

Check Catalog

Monday, April 5, 2010

There Was an Old Monkey Who Swallowed a Frog

A wacky retelling of a popular tale finds an insatiable monkey growing a distended belly as he swallows a frog, a toucan, an iguana and other rain forest creatures.

Check Catalog

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Extreme Bugs: Creepy and Crawly, Mad and Bad!

  Lively text about spiders, scorpions, tarantulas, dragonflies, centipedes, cicadas and more is enhanced with magnified photographs of insects and interactive features such as fold-outs, mini-booklets, a quiz, turning wheel and more.