The Crocodile & the Dentist

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A story with a dual point of view. An apprehensive crocodile must visit an equally fearful dentist. "I must be brave...I'm so scared" declares the croc. This sentiment is repeated by the dentist. "Ouch!" exclaims the croc as the dentist fills his tooth. "Ouch!" returns the dentist as the croc's flailing arm collides with his. The ordeal ends, and each says, "Thank you so much. See you again next year." And then each thinks, "I really don't want to see him again next year." The croc concludes, "So I must never forget to brush my teeth." Gomi's brightly colored art on white background features appealing cartoon characters on each page.

Happy Graduation!

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Graduation day is here! But a special guest almost ruins the event. Luckily, Mrs. Connor's class uses all the skills they have learned in the first grade to save the day!

Graduation Day Is Here!

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Sam learned so many things this year.Now Graduation Day is here!It's 12:00 P.M. and graduation is about to begin. Sam is wearing his cap and gown and sitting among his friends. Mom and Sam's brother are here. But where is Dad? The Pledge of Allegiance has already begun! Suddenly, Dad comes running in, just in time. Sam gets his diploma, gets hugs and kisses from his family and goes out to lunch with his friends. What a happy Graduation Day!

A Day With My Family

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A Day With My Family is about sharing time with loved ones. On a special outing, a family works together to enjoy their day, even when things don't go as planned. The aim of the book is to help children see how making good choices, sharing with others and staying positive can turn a problem into an opportunity to improve a situation.

Priscilla and the Pink Planet

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Reminiscent of Dr. Seuss and Hilary Knight, here is a clever read-aloud about a little girl who lives on a planet where everything is pink. Priscilla dreams of seeing the world in other colors and ends up teaching the Great Queen of Pink that diversity leads to true beauty. After eating one too many bowls of pink porridge, she decides to search the world for at least one other color. Told in Seussian rhyme, the story follows the girl as she steps off the road and makes her own path through meadows, rocks, and swamps. Discouraged, she asks aloud for a sign, and what should appear but a beautiful multicolored butterfly. She chases it, only to see it captured by the Great Queen of Pink. The queen, of course, likes only pink, and all other colors must be kept underground. Priscilla comes up with a plan to change the monarch's mind and break her spell. This is an entertaining book, and the engaging cartoon illustrations are filled with interesting details. The contrast from the world of pink to just the one colorful butterfly is dramatic. After the queen releases all of the colors, the pages are filled with a grand array of tints and shades. This could be a fun title to use with an art class and also makes a bouncy read-aloud.

Bunny Cakes

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Max wants to make Grandma an earthworm birthday cake, but he needs Red-Hot Marshmallow Squirters. Ruby is baking a surprise cake with raspberry-fluff icing, but Max keeps spilling her ingredients. With their usual creativity and aplomb, the favorite bunnies succeed tastily.

Crossing the Street (Just Be Safe Series)

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Designed to present to your children the vitally important safety rules to use everyday. Always cross the street holding hands with an adult you know. Always cross the street at the corner. Always look left-right-left and all around.

Never Talk to Strangers

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This book brilliantly highlights situations that children will find themselves in—whether they’re at home and the doorbell rings, or playing in the park, or mailing a letter on their street—and tells them what to do if a stranger (always portrayed as a large animal, such as a rhino) approaches. Colorful, ’60s-style “psychedelic” artwork and witty, lively rhyme clearly spell out a message about safety that empowers kids, and that has never been more relevant.

Inside a Zoo in the City

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The rhyming, cumulative text begins, "Here is the [parrot] that stretched/ and squawked / that woke the [tiger] that growled and stalked." The book substitutes a jovial little picture of an animal for each bracketed word, making this a rebus and offering playful practice for children who can't quite read yet. Here's the unspoken premise that emerges in the illustrations: the zoo animals sleep each night in their apartments in the city. It's five in the morning when they begin to wake up one another. One by one, they climb aboard a city bus and ride to their day jobs. They disembark and trundle off to their areas, where they look as sleepy as zoo critters often do. Now we know why! Arnold's playful line-and-wash drawings, textured with his signature squiggles, will amuse children on every page. Even parents will smile at the bus-riding chicken absorbed in reading the Stock Market News. Good fun.

What A Party!

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Froggie stands in for the quintessential overexcited child in this companion to Too Many Frogs! (Philomel, 2005). He loves sleeping in his own special hut by the pond, but on his grandfather's birthday, he eagerly wakes up and heads for the celebration. He quickly makes a costume, a stage, and programs so that he can give his present to Grandpa-a performance of his favorite song. When the party ends, Froggie doesn't want to leave. His friend Rabbit plays the part of the patient parent, taking him home and reading him a story. Finally settling down, he reminisces about his wonderful day. The colorful multimedia illustrations range from full-bleed spreads to spot art, which adds movement and visual interest to the pages. While the spotted frogs are appealing, Rabbit, who is blue and rather odd looking with an elongated forehead and fluffy white mustache, is a bit off-putting. Nevertheless, youngsters will empathize with Froggie's feelings. The fact that Froggie, who seems so clearly to be a preschooler, apparently lives alone is a bit jarring. However, the rhythmic, repetitive refrain of his song will work well for audience participation, and both intergenerational and birthday stories are always in demand.

The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark

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The tale of "The Three Little Pigs" gets an underwater makeover in this snappy yarn. Three little fish swim out into the deep blue sea to build their homes. Jim builds a "weedy little house," Tim builds a "sandy little house," and Kim takes up residence in a sunken ship. It isn't long before the big bad shark shows up at each successive residence, calling "Little fish, little fish, let me come in!" Children will quickly join in the answering refrain, "Not by the skin of my finny fin fin!" Gorton's whimsical, computer-drawn scenery and electric color palette set just the right tone for Geist's tongue-in-cheek retelling. The bold font is humorously integrated with the art, appearing inside the shark's mouth for emphasis, or swirling along the current with an escaping fish. This spunky tale is a welcome addition to storytime and picture-book collections.

Heaven Is Having You

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In reassuring couplets and gentle ink-and-wash drawings, the team behind Love Is a Handful of Honey explains just how deep grandparents' love for their grandchildren can be. "It's heaven to see you!" exclaims Grandma Bear as she greets Little Bear. When the fellow asks her what heaven is, she replies, "It's not all that easy to tell you, Because heaven is so many things." Yet she goes on to describe pleasures very much of this world: "It's chasing you around the garden And hearing you shriek with delight. It's lying down while you sit on my tummy And tickle with all of your might." The text frames single-page images and full-bleed spreads, sometimes with creatively curvy type lines. Cabban shows Little Bear and his grandparents spending time in gentle ursine exploits on flower-sprinkled meadows, as well as the grandparents' cozy cave with its big red armchair for eating cupcakes in and an enormous blue towel for drying off after a bubble bath. In the soft pastel glow of a summer sunset, Little Bear reunites with his parents. Without a theologically conventional definition of heaven, this volume will likely have universal appeal to grandchildren and grandparents alike.

My Teacher Is the Best!

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Can You See What I See? 100 Fun Finds

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From the photographer of the bestselling I Spy books and creator of the Can You See What I See? series is a new search-and-find reader chock-full of fun! Children can read the simple text and use the picture clues to search twelve photos for 100 hidden objects! An illustrated word list in the back of the book provides extra support for the newest readers!

Scholastic Set for March 2010

Set of 3 books ** fully sold out **

(1) Noisy Nora

Nora, that noisy mouse, returns with all her middle-child problems still on display. What's a mouse to do when little brother and big sister take up all mom and dad's time? Yup. Plenty of noise. Look at these new pictures and you can almost hear the racket.

(2) Who Stole the Cookies? (All Aboard Reading)

Based on the children's chant of the title, this book extends the rhyme by introducing a cast of animal characters. "Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?" Cat? Puppy? Mouse? Squirrel? No, it's Bear, who feels pretty bad about his thievery. But the little girl looking for the culprit makes it all right when she leads the animal menagerie to the kitchen to bake more cookies.

(3) Taking Care of the Class Pet (The Best Me I Can Be)

Engaging story that helps teach children to be the best person they can be!

Scholastic Books - Dec/09 Special Deal

Imogene's Antlers
Bunny Cakes
Smile A Lot! ** sold out **
More Spagetti, I Say ** sold out **
The Rain Came Down ** sold out **
Gregory the Terrible Eater
Do Kangaroos Wear Seatbelts?
Little Racoon catches a Cold
Ruthie & the Not So Teeny Tiny Lie
Pirates don't change Diapers
Won't you be my Kissaroo? ** sold out **

Scholastic Books - Aug/09 Special Deal

Set of 10 books - $35.80
USD 3.50 each (webprice)

1. I'll Always Come Back!


A parent's voice describes, while envisioning a little girl at school, the many activities the daughter might be enjoying, as tender pictures follow the child through her day. Young children will be reassured to know that their loved ones are with them in thought from beginning to end of the school day.

2. Won't You Be My Kissaroo?


There are lots of different kinds of kisses--from sticky breakfast kisses to playful "gotcha!" kisses to special birthday cake kisses--and this charming story celebrates them all! Now in a sweet new board book edition, this is just the thing for sharing with "your" favorite kissaroo. From sticky breakfast kisses to playful "gotcha" kisses to cozy bedtime kisses, each kiss celebrates a happy moment of the day. And when one little lamb's mama and friends surprise him, all those silly, slippery, snuggly kisses make a special day even more memorable.

3. Pirates Don't Change Diapers


When the pirate crew turns up at Jeremy Jacob's house and accidentally wakes his baby sister, that wee scallywag howls louder than a storm on the high seas. Sure, there's buried treasure to be found, but nobody's digging up "anything" until Bonney Anne quits her caterwauling. So, quicker than you can say "scurvy dog," Braid Beard and his swashbuckling pirates become... "babysitters? "Blimey!

4. I Can Be Fair!


From the bestselling "The Best Me I Can Be" series, important values like responsibility is taught in simple and easy to understand way.

5. Dandelions: Stars In The Grass


This cheerful book is a nice combination of rhyme and information. "The flowers begin to change one summer day. Their bright yellow petals fold up and fall away." As the dandelion's cycle is described, bright and pleasing acrylic illustrations extend the text, including insects that are attracted to this multitudinous flower. The bold black print dances through the pages, with an occasional word in another color for emphasis.

6. Yikes!!!


A young boy who appears to be on safari is shown with some of the world's most fearsome and exotic creatures. But at the story's end, readers are in for a surprise.

7. Tv Rex


Missing his grandfather, Rex watches too much television and soon finds himself in a fantastical adventure where he stars in all his favorite shows.

8. Keep It Up!


A science activity book about sinking and floating.

9. Beach Day


A cheerful family tumbles out of the car and onto the beach, ready for a perfect day. Buoyant verse just right for reading aloud and bright, playful illustrations capture the singular feeling of a hazy, lazy day by the ocean, complete with a ball game with new friends, water-skiers and sailboats, and a picnic lunch of fried chicken and deviled eggs.

10. Summer Fun With Clifford

Scholastic: Up on Daddy's Shoulders

This picture book celebrates a day shared between a young boy and his father. Corvino's sunny paintings fill each double-page spread, in which the boy rides on his father's shoulders. In just a few lines of text on each spread, the boy describes the view from his new perspective: "I am as big as our great big house." Down the winding road to the zoo, the boy is able to "touch" the tops of trees and "fly" like a bird. He seems taller than giraffes and hills and clouds. At dusk, as father and son return home, the boy feels that he "can touch the moon and stars." The book ends with a sentence that reinforces the book's message: "Up on Daddy's shoulders, I'm the happiest kid in the world." Easy on the eyes and ears, this title's rhythm and attractiveness make it a fine read-aloud choice, especially at bedtime.

Scholastic: Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie

Ruthie, a fox girl, loves teeny-tiny things, so when she finds a miniature camera in the schoolyard, she claims it as her own. And lies about it when fellow student Martin tells their teacher, Mrs. Olsen, that the camera belongs to Ruthie. The rest of the afternoon is long for Ruthie, and at home that night, she ruminates over her crime until she finally comes clean with her parents. Having been counseled that honesty is the best policy, Ruthie, with much trepidation, tells her teacher and Martin what she has done. Mrs. Olsen praises her for telling the truth, and Martin forgives her, too. A real-life situation might not have such a happy ending, but this gets right to the heart of what children feel when they know they've done something wrong but don't know how to set things right. The sprightly artwork is cheery in all respects, except when it comes to Ruthie. With subtle brushstrokes, Rankin captures all the varied emotions Ruthie goes through: glee, defiance, worry, fear, and eventually relief.

Scholastic: I Am Generous!

From the bestselling "The Best Me I Can Be" series, important values like generous is taught in simple and easy to understand way.