Authors:Janet S. Wong,  Margaret Chodos-Irvine,
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Book
Keywords: children, literature, adult, winner, awards, award, american, fourth, july, asian, pacific, pie
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 015202543X
ISBN-13: 9780152025434

No one wants Chinese food on the Fourth of July, I say. We’re in apple-pie America, and my parents are cooking chow mein! . . . They just don’t get it. Americans do not eat Chinese food on the Fourth of July. Right? Shocked that her parents are cooking Chinese food to sell in the family store on this all-American holiday, a feisty Chinese-American girl tries to tell her mother and father how things really are. But as the parade passes by and fireworks light the sky, she learns a lesson of her own. This award-winning author-illustrator team returns with a lighthearted look at the v

Author: Thomas Locker
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Book
Keywords: america, journey, home
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1998-10-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 015201473X
ISBN-13: 9780152014735

An anthology of poetry and prose by such writers as Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, all celebrating aspects of the American landscape.

Authors:Kara LaReau,  Scott Magoo,
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Book
Keywords: fish, ugly
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0152050825
ISBN-13: 9780152050825

Ugly Fish is ugly and big and mean, and he won’t share his driftwood tunnel or his special briny flakes with anyone. And that means the wimpy little fish who keep showing up in his tank have got to go. But then one day someone bigger and uglier and maybe even meaner arrives . . . and suddenly Ugly Fish isn’t feeling quite so confident anymore. From Kara LaReau, author of the Rocko and Spanky series, here is an irreverent and terrifically funny book about a bully who at last gets his comeuppance.

Author: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Book
Keywords: shapes, mouse
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 015206091X
ISBN-13: 9780152060916

What can you make with one oval, two circles, and eight triangles? Just ask three clever mice--who even find a funny way to trick a sneaky cat. Ellen Stoll Walsh once again proves that sheâ??s a master of concept books in this celebration of shapes, color, and innovation.

Author: Douglas Floria
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Book
Keywords: meow, dogs, cats, rhyming, bow, wow
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0152163956
ISBN-13: 9780152163952

Douglas Florian (Insectlopedia, The Mammalabilia) is at it again. The 21 poems and paintings in his new collection, Bow Wow Meow Meow, will tickle young dog and cat lovers?and just about everyone else, too. Florian?s painting of a poodle, essentially a riot of curls and a pink hair bow, accompanies a four-line concrete poem cleverly typeset in swirls on the opposite page:Poodles have oodles and oodles of curls,Which makes poodle boys look like poodle girls.The curls may have whirls, while the whirls may have swirls. Poodles have oodles and oodles of curls. Florian has fun with bulldogs, pointe

Author: Douglas Floria
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Book
Keywords: poems, paintings, space, mars, stars, comets
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0152053727
ISBN-13: 9780152053727

Blast off with Douglas Florian’s new high-flying compendium, which features twenty whimsical poems about space. From the moon to the stars, from the Earth to Mars, here is an exuberant celebration of our celestial surroundings that’s certain to become a universal favorite among aspiring astronomers everywhere. Includes die-cut pages and a glossary of space terms. (07/01/2007)

Authors:Cynthia Rylant,  Arthur Howard,
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Book
Keywords: wish, tabby, putter
Number of Pages: 44
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0152024263
ISBN-13: 9780152024260

It’s Mr. Putter’s birthday. But is he too old for a party? Not if his fine cat, Tabby, and his neighbor Mrs. Teaberry and her good dog, Zeke, have anything to do with it! Filled with the all the usual Putter and Tabby humor and emotion--plus a whole lot of candles, balloons, and cake--this fourteenth book in the acclaimed series is a grand birthday celebration indeed.