Product Description: A new sibling is just one of the surprises — some good, some not so much — awaiting Monty in another story for early chapter book readers.It’s because six-year-old Monty is such a great reader that he finds out about a free pair of parakeets in need of a new owner...read more

Monty tries to master a magic kit — and finds some real-life situations tricky — in this spot-on story about an endearing, utterly relatable first-grader.First grade is almost over, and Monty will soon be seven. He’s now a big brother, too, which makes him feel very grown-up. But when he tries to use the magic set his grandmother gave him, he has a little trouble. Maybe the card trick would work if he were eight years old? Mother’s Day is coming, and Monty wishes he had something better to give his mom than the picture frame he made out of ice-cream sticks at school. But how is he supposed to guess from the TV call-in ad how much flowers cost, or that you need a special card to get them? Whether involving his baby sister in his library project, losing a sneaker while marching with his karate class in the parade, or learning that an exciting afternoon isn’t always a good thing, Monty’s familiar adventures embody the gentle humor of everyday life.

Product Description: The star of Anik McGrory's critically acclaimed Kidogo returns in a stand-alone story about delicious mangoes, silly monkeys, and taking one's own sweet time. Baby elephant Kidogo is off with his Mama to find breakfast. Kidogo loves to take his time, and wants to do everything slowly, slowly-even though Mama wants to move quickly...read more

Product Description: A family living in the Catskill Mountains in the 1920s works together to gather the necessary ingredients to make blintzes for Shavuot.

Since they have no extra money to spare, Sarah and Max wonder how they are going to make blintzes for their five children to celebrate Shavout--the Jewish holiday celebrating the day Moses received the Ten Commandments--in a wonderful and funny tale of a loving family who learns the value of cooperation. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: A shy boy with asthma starts first grade — and comes into his own — in this appealing story for early chapter book readers.Six-year-old Monty doesn’t have a brother, a sister, or a pet. What he does have is asthma, which sometimes makes it hard to breathe and often makes him feel like he’d rather be somebody else...read more

While getting a tour of the big top circus with his friend who performs in the show as an acrobat, the young guest appreciates the incredible work involved by those in the show who, despite their strange looks and unique abilities, are really just everyday people. Reprint.

Kidogo doesn't want to be the smallest elephant. So he decides to go on a journey across the plains of Africa to find a creature who is smaller than him. On his way he comes across lions and giraffes and hippos, but all these animals are still bigger than him. And soon he realises that he has a place in the world no matter what his size may be.

Sure that he is the smallest creature on earth, a young elephant leaves home and journeys over woodlands, rivers, and plains searching for someone even smaller than he is.

From bats sleeping upside down in caves to sooty terns resting while in flight, this book provides a look at how different animals get their rest in their own unique way.

In an author's first children's book based on the story of the first 'passengered' hotair balloon flight, Mouton the sheep is fascinated by the thought of flying, and she gets her wish when she is sent up in the Montgolfier brothers' hotair balloon in 1783.