Children's Books

Level 3, Grades 2-4. Designed for the independent reader with more complex themes and story lines.

Level 3, Grades 2-4. Designed for the independent reader with more complex themes and story lines.

Level 3, Grades 2-4. Designed for the independent reader with more complex themes and story lines.

Everyday life is the basis for this fun and entertaining tale. Simple math concepts are embedded in the story, so young children will intuitively understand them. Creative suggestions for activities in the back of the book extend learning opportunities.

Everyday life is the basis for this fun and entertaining tale. Simple math concepts are embedded in the story, so young children will intuitively understand them. Creative suggestions for activities in the back of the book extend learning opportunities.

Grades K - 3. More Spaghetti I Say (Paperback). Watch children begin to love reading with this Level 2 reader.

This introduction to sea turtles describes their characteristics, behavior, and life cycle.

Describes how the surveyor, heavy machinery operators, carpenter crew, plumbers, and other workers build a house.

Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of color. 32 pages.

Rhymed text (crunch, munch, caterpillars lunch) presents a view of creatures found in the grass from lunchtime till nightfall. By Denise Fleming. 32 pages. Big Book

The white shape silhouetted against a blue background changes on every page. Is it a rabbit, a bird, or just spilt milk? Keeps children guessing until the end.

Simple rhyming text and illustrations describe Jesse Bear's activities from morning till night. 32 pages.

The wind blew, and blew, and blew! It blew so hard, it took everything with it: Mr. White's umbrella, Priscilla's balloon, the twins' scarves, even the wig on the judge's head. But just when the wind was about to carry everything out to sea, it changed its mind! With rhyming verse and colorful illustrations, Pat Hutchins takes us on a merry chase that is well worth the effort. Paperback

1 - 3 years. Five little monkeys wake up with the sun. Today is their mama's birthday and they are going to bake a cake. They'll have to measure the flour and mix in the right number of eggs, and get it all into the oven in time for the birthday surprise--without waking up Mama!

Learn the many sounds of zoo animals from polar bears to walrus.

Ira is thrilled to spend the night at Reggie's, until his sister raises the question of whether he should take his teddy bear. Paperback. 48 pages.

Guests at Little Frog's birthday party include the red fox, the purple butterfly, the orange cat, and other colorful animals.

An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

When her five little ducks disappear one by one, Mother Duck sets out to find them. Includes musical notation.

An animal-filled version of the classic children's song "The Wheels on the Bus" "The seals on the bus go "errp, errp, errp" All through the town." Two children and their parents board a city bus on their way to a party. At the next stop, who should get on but a group of seals, who holler "errp, errp, errp" at the top of their lungs. Each time the bus stops a new kind of animal joins the passengers and adds to the din, to the children's delight and the parents'… More »

A lonely little bird named Choco goes in search of its mother.

While on a summer vacation, Emily discovers a whale living in her garden pond. So she writes to her teacher, Mr. Blueberry, for advice on how to care for her new pet. But Mr. Blueberry reponds that she must be mistaken, as whales live in the ocean, not in ponds. In a delightful exhange of letters, Emily learns about whales, and Mr. Blueberry learns about imagination, faith, and friendship. Full color.

Author Gerald McDermott has presented picture-book enthusiasts with yet another enthralling adaptation of a well-known folktale, this one from West Africa. The trickster and folk hero, Kwaku Anansi, is a spider with six even wiser sons. In the course of the story, these six sons come to fulfill the promise of their respective colorful names as they work together to rescue their beloved father, when, one day, he wanders far from home and gets lost, seemingly forever...in the belly of a fish.

When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco. Paperback.