It took Ludwig Bemelmans years to think of Madeline's next adventure after the 1939 original Madeline, but he did it, and the result was Madeline's Rescue, winner of the 1954 Caldecott Medal. One day on a walk through Paris (a "twelve little girls in two straight lines" kind of walk), Madeline slips and falls off a bridge right into the Seine. Everyone feared she would be dead, "But for a dog /…
A boy enjoys imitating his big brother and dreams of the day when he will be big as well
With inspiring and educational stories, Scholastic's Hello Reader series caters to the spectrum of reading abilities among beginning readers. My First Hello Readers use basic words to reinforce phonics and sight vocabulary. The books at this level offer punch-out flash cards plus six additional pages of skill-building activities. Levels 1 - 4 combine a greater vocabulary and longer sentence len…
In a rollicking rhyme, the author introduces us to all types of homes for both people and animals. The poem engages in flights of fancy - what about a husk being a house for an ear of corn, or a throat being a house for a hum? "And once you get started in thinking this way,/ It seems that whatever you see/ Is either a house or it lives in a house,/ And a house is a house for me!" whimsical draw…
Here are shoes to skate in, shoes to skip in, shoes to turn a double flip in! A sweet and charming rhyming look at a favorite topic for pre-K and kindergarten kids--perfect for anyone helping children learn to tie their shoes. This book was a Reading Rainbow selection and praised by School Library Journal, which noted: Story hour groups will be checking out each other's footwear after hearin…
These are our club rules. 1. No boys 2. Come in the window 3. Use the password
What do you spy with your little eye? Join a young boy on an adventure across the seas and discover the surprising sight he spots through his spyglass! The rhyming, cumulative text with its familiar I Spy... refrain invites readers to point out colorful details and engage with the story.
Jim Benton brings on the humor in a brand-new line of board books! In Five Stinky Socks, one silly monster searches his house for his five super stinky socks! 1 stinky sock. I'll tell you why it stinks. I used it to wash dirty dishes in the kitchen sink. 2 stinky socks. I found one in my shoe. It's black and white just like a skunk and smells as bad--pee-eww! Jim Benton, the international…
Mommy is home. Hooray! Hooray! This is the best time of the day!
Written and illustrated by Felicia Bond, the illustrator of the bestselling If You Give... series, Tumble Bumble is a fun-filled tale of a tiny bug who goes for a walk and meets all kinds of creatures! When a tiny bug decides to go for a walk, anything can happen! He might meet a cat, a crocodile, a pig, or even a bee to dance and play with, and that means more friends for everyone.