Author: Michael Bond
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: paddington, bear
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1979-03-31
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0395066409
ISBN-13: 9780395066409

This new revised edition of the third book about Paddington captures all the playfulness of the incorrigible little bear. Living with the Brown family in London, Paddington has a talent for getting into trouble. His intentions are always the best, but he is seldom far from disaster. While his independent spirit and curious nature often get him into sticky situations, Paddington is always loved for the cheer he brings, and his stories have been a source of delight for young readers ever since he first appeared on the scene more than thirty years ago. Now, in an updated edition with a delightful

Author: Allen Say
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: alice, music
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-03-29
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0618311181
ISBN-13: 9780618311187

As a girl, Alice loved to dance, but the rhythms of her life offered little opportunity for a foxtrot, let alone a waltz. World War II erupted soon after she was married. Alice and her husband, along with many other Japanese Americans, were forced to leave their homes and report to assembly centers around the country. Undaunted, Alice and her husband learned to make the most of every circumstance, from their stall in the old stockyard in Portland to the decrepit farm in the Oregon desert, with its field of stones. Like a pair of skilled dancers, they sidestepped adversity to land gracefully am

Author: Bruce Koscielniak
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: time, clocks, first
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0618396683
ISBN-13: 9780618396689

Time to read a book.Time to wash dishes.Time to do this or that.You say things like this every day, all the time. But there was a time when time itself was undefined—no one knew the difference between a minute, an hour, or a day. Then people started creating tools to measure time. First they used the big stuff around them—the sun, the moon, water. Soon after, using the knowledge they got from their natural time-telling tools, people began to build clocks—huge clocks unlike the ones we use today. They also used their knowledge of the sun and moon to create calendars made up of months an

Author: Bernard Waber
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: courage
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2002-10-28
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0618238557
ISBN-13: 9780618238552

What is courage? Certainly it takes courage for a firefighter to rescue someone trapped in a burning building, but there are many other kinds of courage too. Everyday kinds that normal, ordinary people exhibit all the time, like "being the first to make up after an argument," or "going to bed without a nightlight." Bernard Waber explores the many varied kinds of courage and celebrates the moments, big and small, that bring out the hero in each of us.

Author: Brian Lies
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: library, bats
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-09-08
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 061899923X
ISBN-13: 9780618999231

Houghton Mifflin Company Another inky evening’s here— The air is cool and calm and clear.Can it be true? Oh, can it be?Yes!—Bat Night at the library!Join the free-for-all fun at the public library with these book-loving bats! Shape shadows on walls, frolic in the water fountain, and roam the book-filled halls until it’s time for everyone, young and old, to settle down into the enchantment of story time. Brian Lies’ joyful critters and their nocturnal celebration cast library visits in a new light. Even the youngest of readers will want to join the batty book-fest!

Author: Lise Lunge-Larsen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: birkebeiners, race
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2001-09-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0618103139
ISBN-13: 9780618103133

When they went into battle they wore no costly armor, just birchbark wrapped around their legs, and so they were called Birkebeiners, which means "Birchleggers." It is the year 1206, and deep in the snow-covered mountains and valleys of Norway the fiercest warriors in the land struggle to ski a baby to safety. They race against the greed and inequity of the rich, against the very weather of Norway. They race as the only way to save a child prince and bring peace to their country. Here is a true, untold story of both bravery and tenderness. Mary Azarian"s strong, sure woodcuts capture the war

Author: Gerald Morris
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: squire, tales, quest
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-09-28
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0547144245
ISBN-13: 9780547144245

Why is it, Terence wondered, that the things you know most surely are always the things you can’t demonstrate to any one else? And why is it, after all of these years, that Terence is still just a squire, offering advice on how best to scrub the rust spots from armor? But Squire Terence has more to worry about than his place on the social scale. For all the peace and prosperity that has made England famous across Europe, Terence is uneasy. After nearly six months without contact with the World of the Faeries – not even from his old friend, the mischievous sprite Robin – Terence is sure