Children's

Count the 12 days leading up to Valentine's Day with this fun-filled picture book inspired by "The 12 Days of Christmas"--perfect for fans of Natasha Wing's "The Night Before " series. Includes stickers for an extra Valentine's Day treat!

The first day of Valentine's starts with ONE warm, fuzzy hug. On the second day, the crafts begin with TWO cups of sparkles. On the third day, let's make our cards with THREE pink pens! Each of the 12 busy days leading up to Valentine's Day are celebrated in this cumulative rhyming storybook based on "The 12 Days of Christmas."

Kids will love spotting all the fun ways a family gets ready for Valentine's Day. And the book includes stickers--perfect treats for each of the 12 days.

Also available: The 12 Days of Kindergarten, The 12 Days of Halloween, and The 12 Days of Preschool.

will be a fast favorite with the preschool and kindergarten sets.--ReadBrightly.com

The only thing better than making things is making memories. No matter what the season, enjoy gathering together as a family to express your creativity. The hundreds of fantastic projects in this book will spark imaginations and provide hours of fun and conversation through the year.

Celebrate Thanksgiving with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this retelling of the beloved Thanksgiving TV special!

When Peppermint Patty invites herself (and most of her friends) to Charlie Brown's house for Thanksgiving dinner, Charlie Brown reluctantly agrees to make a holiday feast even though he can barely make toast and cold cereal! Can he pull together a memorable meal, or will he and his friends just be grateful when it's over?

(c) 2016 Peanuts Worldwide LLC

Will Max find the perfect Christmas tree for Ruby?
In this 8 x 8 storybook, Max, Ruby, and Grandma go to Santa's Tree Land to pick out a Christmas tree. Ruby wants to find the perfect tree, but Max is more interested in seeing Santa. After all the trees Ruby picks get taken by other bunnies, Max saves the day by asking Santa for the perfect Christmas tree!

John Lithgow makes Arts and Literacy a Palooza of fun for kids! Turn the pages of A Crash, a Roar, and So Much More! and join Marsupial Sue on a fascinating, fun reading adventure! Animals live in families, just like you do! In this fact-filled title, readers discover how animals play together, raise their young, and work cohesively to hunt, hide, and offer protection. In this level 2 emerging reader children will have fun beginning to build important reading skills as they learn about these fascinating animals! Level 2, Emerging Readers feature: - Repetitive language - Familiar and unfamiliar language - Longer sentences - Vibrant, full-color photography - Vocabulary list highlighting key words from the story - Comprehension questions that reinforce important reading concepts Take a heaping measure of fascinating information about the arts. Add a dose of laughter and creativity. What do you get? Best-selling author John Lithgow's Lithgow Palooza Readers! The popular Lithgow Palooza Readers feature three levels of reading fun for children grades K to 3, carefully designed to match the abilities of developing readers. Research has proven that children benefit academically from participation in the arts. Children will build and strengthen important reading skills as they learn about such things as instruments, animals, music, and sounds.

After enjoying a long winter's nap, a spring breeze awakens Song Maker and his group of friends. They soon discover that all the front yard grass and food have disappeared and they must now venture into the dangerous backyard which is filled with horrible insect-eating creatures. Mantis must fight to protect his friends. Does he survive?

Mother Ant has disappeared. The evil Mantis is blamed. What will happen next? Follow Long Green, Daddy Long Legs, Slimy the Slug and Father Ant as they search for Mother Ant. Will they get there in time?

Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym of "Dr. Seuss" (Seuss was Geisel's middle name) and only two hundred twenty-three words, Geisel created a replacement for those dull primers: "The Cat in the Hat." The instant success of the book prompted Geisel and his wife to found Beginner Books, and Geisel wrote many popular books in this series, including "Hop on Pop, " "Fox in Socks, " and "Green Eggs and Ham." Other favorite titles in this series are "Go, Dog, Go!" and "Are You My Mother?" by P. D. Eastman, "A Fly Went By, " by Mike McClintock, and "Put Me in the Zoo, " by Robert Lopshire. These affordable hardcover books combine large print, easy vocabulary, and large, bright illustrations in stories kids will want to read again and again. Grades 1 - Grades 2.

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Family Literature, "A Hanukkah Present" is a collection of eleven multigenerational tales and a novella. Whether you spell it with an H or a Ch, these stories will be enjoyed by families of every background. Learn the origin of "The Chanukah Present" Written by award-winning author and storyteller Mark Binder, these stories include "The Lethal Latkes" (mentioned in the New York Times), the Challah that Ate Chelm, and many more.

Filled with new and beloved poems, stories, songs, and more, here is a beautiful collection of prose and verse that celebrates the Christmas season. You'll find the classics here, such as "Silent Night, Deck the Halls," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas," as well as new stories by the talents of Pam Munoz Ryan, Joseph Bruchac, Katherine Paterson, Nancy Willard, and others. This evocative treasury depicts the holiday season in all its warmth and glory.

Complete 80-page book features 30 selections with full-color artwork
Musical arrangements for such well-loved songs as "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," "Deck the Halls," "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," "We Three Kings of Orient Are," and "Jingle, Bells"
Much-loved pieces by Christina Rossetti, Langston Hughes, and Aileen Fisher
15 new holiday contributions by the talents of Joseph Bruchac, Deborah Hopkinson, Katherine Paterson, Pam Munoz Ryan, and Nancy Willard
A special Christmas message from James Ransome
A colorful ribbon marker"

A Magical Friendship Journey is about twelve-year-old Chloe and her unlikely family. Chloe has a magical alacorn and two horses that live in the forest with her. They live a peaceful life. The family travels between the magical land Senana and the forest.

One day a new family of mischievous critters moves into the forest near them....

Ages 7-9

Little bunny is so excited about helping his mom with the chores. He knows that at the end of the day, he will get a special treat! As soon as little bunny starts his day of chores, everything goes wrong. Oh no, little bunny! Unhappy with all the mistakes that he made, he plans on leaving his house. His family shows him love. They tell him that no matter the number of trophies he receives or mistakes he has made, they will always love him. He will have a place in their hearts.

THE BEST SICK DAY EVER and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book debut.

Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee's case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his animal friends decide it's time they returned the favor.

A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year and the winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal. This title has Common Core connections.

A is for author.... Dink writes to his favorite author, mystery writer
Wallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green Lawn. To Dink's amazement,
Wallace says he'll come! But when the big day arrives, Wallace is nowhere to be
found. The police think he just missed his plane, but Dink suspects foul play.
It's up to Dink and his two best friends, Josh and Ruth Rose, to find the
famous writer--before it's too late!

Mr. and Mrs. Moose invite all their animal friends for Thanksgiving dinner and the only one missing is Turkey. When they set out to find him, Turkey is quaking with fear because he doesn't realize that his hosts want him at their table, not on it. "This ideal family read-aloud will awaken the holiday spirit in all." -- Publishers Weekly

It's Max's birthday, but his best friend Addie won't be going to his party. Why not? Because Addie is afraid that everyone at the party will laugh at her new haircut. This wacky story about two "true blue" friends is sure to appeal to beginning readers who may worry about how they look in front of their friends. Full color.

Children will love this non-stop, action adventure--via a 3-D holographic computer program that recreates biblical times. As they "blitz" from one event to the next--from the Creation to the Book of Revelation--they enounter such exotic "ports-of-call" as Babel, Egypt, Jerico, Jerusalem, and Rome. Full color.

Overhearing Nana and Grampy tell his mother that they would be taking a trip to an exotic island, Aidan excitedly asked Nana if Jimmy could go with them on their trip.

"Who is Jimmy"?, asked Nana.

And with that question, a little blue frog's first adventure began.