Discover more about the comedy team that perfected the art of the pie fight!The Three Stooges were the hardworking children of immigrants and discovered a love of performing at an early age. Starting out as a vaudeville act, they soon transitioned into movies, becoming a worldwide sensation in feature films and shorts. Never the critics' darlings, audiences loved them for their mastery of physical comedy and their willingness to do anything for a laugh. They remained popular over the years despite several personnel changes that revolved around the three Howard brothers from Brooklyn. Their comedies are still in syndication more than 50 years after they were first shown on TV and continue to delight old fans and attract new ones.

Product Description: Remember the Alamo! is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas...read more

Product Description: Who doesn't love Lucy? The legendary actress, producer, and comedian steps into the Who Was? spotlight.Much like her hit TV show, I Love Lucy, Americans in the 1950s fell in love with Lucy. Born in New York in 1911, Lucille Ball was always a natural performer...read more

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit , J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood roaming the British countryside with his family and could read and write by age four. He was naturally gifted with languages and used this skill as a signals officers in World War II as well as in his fantasy writing. By creating alternate universes and inventing languages in his work he demonstrated that imaginary realms were not just for children. Fondly remembered as the ""Father of High Fantasy,"" Tolkien's books have inspired blockbuster movies and legions of fans.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. As a child, Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory where his gritty surroundings inspired some of the most memorable characters and settings in literary history. Known for his masterful storytelling in books like Oliver Twist , Great Expectations , and A Christmas Carol , Dickens toured the globe as one of the most famous people of his era...read more

Product Description: Mrs. Root has everything you want. Enter her store and you will find that, for the right price, she can sell you anything your heart desires. But be careful what you wish for-you just might get it.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Examines the life and accomplishments of computer industry pioneer Steve Jobs, a founder of Apple Computer, Inc.

Product Description: Steve Jobs, adoptado en la infancia por una familia en San Francisco, tuvo una vida llena de experiencia en solo cincuenta y seis cortos años. En este ¿Quién fue ... ? biografía , los niños aprenderán cómo su obsesión con las computadoras y la tecnología a una edad temprana lo llevó a co-fundar y dirigir Apple, además de convertir Pixar en un estudio de animación de vanguardia ...read more

Product Description: For David Hawke, directing Dead Before Midnight on Broadway is the chance of a lifetime. But strange things begin to happen to David and his colleagues, and people are saying that the play itself may be cursed. As opening night approaches, it's not clear if it will be the biggest night of David's life, or the last...read more

Product Description: Vive y aprende. is a series of sensitively-written picture storybooks in Spanish that take a child's point of view--especially the view of those kids who need encouragement in the face of some emotional or physical difficulty. In this story, a little boy and his sister are sad and occasionally confused as they recognize that their beloved grandfather has changed...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Tom, Anne, and Gordon learn about shape and measurement when they try to find the right spot for their chicken pen.

When his mother tells him he is too old for an imaginary friend, eight-year-old Mac brings his friend Bloo to Madame Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, an orphanage for imaginary friends whose children have outgrown them, in an original story based on Cartoon Network's hit show. Original.