Author: Barbara Bottner
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: don, books, loves, brooks, miss
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2010-03-09
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0375846824
ISBN-13: 9780375846823

With the help of Miss Brooks, Missy’s classmates all find books they love in the library—books about fairies and dogs and trains and cowboys. But Missy dismisses them all—“Too flowery, too furry, too clickety, too yippity.”Still, Miss Brooks remains undaunted. Book Week is here and Missy will find a book to love if they have to empty the entire library. What story will finally win over this beastly, er, discriminating child? William Steig’s Shrek!—the tale of a repulsive green ogre in search of a revolting bride—of course!Barbara Bottner and Michael Emberley pay playful homage

Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: journal, stargirl
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-08-14
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0375840567
ISBN-13: 9780375840562

FOR EVERY STARGIRL fan, here’s an inviting diary: 160 journal pages, each decorated with a quote from Stargirl or Love, Stargirl.

Author: Natalie Standiford
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: sleeping, astronauts
Number of Pages: 30
Published: 1996-11-12
List price: $2.99
ISBN-10: 0679869999
ISBN-13: 9780679869993

Illustrated in full color. Inspired by a description of astronauts asleepaboard the Space Shuttle, Astronauts are Sleeping is a bedtime book thatis at once a reverie and a visual tour de force. A bright, eager voicedescribes three sleeping astronauts whizzing around the earth in a spacecapsule and asks the thought-provoking question "What do the astronauts see intheir dreams?" Magnificent pastels by Allen Garns show planets that arebreathtaking, astronauts who are alive, and a galaxy that is lush, deeplytextured, and beautiful to look at. And happily, readers do discoverwhat the astronauts are

Author: Bill Grossman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: ape, hugged, sister, little
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2004-09-28
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0517800179
ISBN-13: 9780517800171

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P My sister’s on a hugging spree! Hugging her way from A to Z. Wild animals don’t scare Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from an Ape to a Zebra, whether they like it or not! A newt, an octopus, a porcupine . . . it’s a slimy, slippery, prickly situation. What will Little Sister hug next? And what kind of trouble will those hugs get her into? With riotously revolting rhymes by Bill Grossman and hysterically funny art by Kevin Hawkes, kids will be laughing their way from A to Z . . . until all th

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Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: rhymes, aloud, read
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1986-10-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0394872185
ISBN-13: 9780394872186

First published in 1986 and just as fresh and relevant today, this widely acclaimed, child-friendly poetry anthology is now being reissued with a striking new jacket. In his introduction to this book Jim Trelease, bestselling author of The Read-Aloud Handbook, writes, “No one better recognizes the essence of the child-poetry connection than poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky. . . . Here are more than 200 little poems to feed little people with little attention spans to help both grow. Marc Brown’s inviting illustrations add a visual dimension to the poems, which further engage young imagi

Author: Jerry Stanley
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: missions, gold, rush, indians, california, tragic, fate, digger
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1997-08-05
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0517709511
ISBN-13: 9780517709511

From the award-winning author of Children of the Dustbowl comes asobering look at two of the most frequently romanticized events in Americanhistory. For the native peoples of California, the period from 1769, when thefirst Spanish Mission was founded, to the 1850s, when the Gold Rush was at itsheight, was one of terrible violence and destruction. First, Spanish priestsand soldiers sought to convert the Indians to Christianity and a "civilized"way of life. Yet for the Indians the story of the missions was one of hunger,disease, rebellion, and death. Then, during the Gold Rush, Indians werefrequ

Author: John Feinstein
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: series, world, mystery, change
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-08-11
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0375856366
ISBN-13: 9780375856365

A behind-the-scenes mystery at the World Series from bestseller John Feinstein. Bestselling author, journalist, and Edgar Award winner John Feinstein is back with another high-stakes sports mystery. Teen reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are covering baseball’s World Series, and during the course of an interview with a new hot pitcher, they discover more than a few contradictions in his life story. What’s he hiding? An embarrassing secret? A possible crime? Let the investigation begin!