To keep myself up off the ice, I find my father's feet are nice. I snuggle in his belly fluff, And that's how I stay warm enough. In wild and wacky rhymes, Emperor penguins describe their world--how they hatch, dive, swim, and survive. Antarctic Antics was made in a musical animated short with music by the Mavericks. The American Library Association chose it for the prestigious Andrew Carn…
Tap dancers stomp out beats like a drummer. Read along as they hop and shuffle to the music.
Excerpted from the national best-seller Preschool Art, MaryAnn Kohl brings you 50 great ways to create with playdough, tissue mâché, yeast dough, peanut butter dough and more. Emphasizing the process of art, not the product, this series encourages children to feel successful, problem-solve, and experience the joy of exploration and discovery. Preschool Art: Clay & Dough makes art fun and acce…
A biography of the child prodigy who wrote more than 800 pieces of music before his untimely death at thirty-five.
A collection of poems, one for each month of the year and a final poem that draws all the months together, explores the special events and characteristics of various times throughout the year.
The Let's Dance series gives readers an opportunity to explore popular forms of dance. From breaking to ballet, each book follows a young dancer through dance class, from warm up to cool down. Some of the key moves of this type of dancing are explained, and the reader is shown the clothing needed for each type of dance. Let's Dance shows young readers how much fun dance can be. Let's Dance is a…
Discover fascinating facts about the life of the Stone Age people - where they lived, what they ate, and what they looked like. Fifteen practical projects help to bring the past alive, from creating cave art, to preparing a Stone Age meal.
With her thoroughly researched, lively narrative and superbly detailed illustrations, Diane Stanley has captured the life of the artist Michelangelo, who towered above the late Renaissance—and whose brilliance in architecture, painting, and sculpture amazes and moves us to this day. Michelangelo had a turbulent, quarrelsome life. He was obsessed with perfection and felt that everyone--fro…
A Step 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader about our forty-fourth president, Barack Obama—revised to include an account of his reelection and new photographs! With clear and accessible language, independent readers can learn how the lessons and love from Obama’s mother and grandparents shaped him; how the places he lived influenced him; and how he turned his childhood feeling of being an o…
Abbeville Kids expands its award-winning series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children about the world by looking at art, and about art by looking at the world. In How Artists See the Elements children can see how Red Grooms created clumps of earth out of dabs and lines of paint; how Arthur Dove captured the beauty and destructiveness of fire at the same time; how N…