Product Description: When a young boy learns about what makes art special—sometimes it’s beautiful, sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it tells a story—he realizes that these same characteristics are what make his grandmother special, too. As a result, he finds the inspiration to create his own masterpiece that’s one of a kind...read more

Product Description: Whenever Ruth and Sammy visit their grandparents, they get to brush up on their Yiddish. This Jewish language, a blend of German and Hebrew, is full of words that are fun to say: words like shvitz (sweat), feh! ("It stinks!"), and schmaltz (fat)...read more

In order to answer her mother's question about what would make her smile, a girl first asks various people, animals, and even the moon what makes them happy.

An examination of concepts of love from late medieval times to the early nineteenth century discerns a conflict between realistic and idealist attitudes toward love that continues into the present century

Product Description: Click clack, open up the door, girls;Click clack, open up the door, boys;Front door, back door, clickety clack,Take you riding in my car.Inspired by his love of Woody Guthrie's Riding In My Car, award winning illustrator Scott Menchin invites readers on an exciting cross-country road trip with a family of dogs! This interactive novelty format features pull-tabs, pop-ups, and lift-the-flaps on every page, and makes kids feel like they're really coming along for the ride, visiting some of America's most notable landmarks including the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon and more! Hidden beneath each flap are fun American facts for the child readers and interesting biographical details about Woody Guthrie for adults...read more

Product Description: Can you stretch to the ceiling? Can you stretch to the floor? You can stretch with a whisper, you can stretch with a roar! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin give new meaning to the yoga pose downward facing dog as publishing’s most energetic pooch explores the many, many ways a kid can get limber...read more

Product Description: Rhyming text offers advice on the best ways for toddlers to bounce.

Rhyming text describes the many ways to wiggle.

Rhyming text describes the many ways to wiggle.

Product Description: Offers eight previously published adventures featuring the mischievous Duck, Farmer Brown and his cows, and other farm animal friends.

A humorous look at personal finance describes ways to avoid getting rich.

Product Description: Windmills keep the cows cool, Napolean invented Neapolitan ice cream, armadillos live in Amarillo. Author Mat Connolley has made a hobby of collecting the funny things that kids believe. One website and tens of thousands of contributions later, Butter Comes from Butterflies gathers in one delightfully illustrated volume these silly, strange, and sometimes astonishing explanations for the way the world works...read more

Henry tries to solve the problem of his family's messy, crowded house by making lots of pockets and putting everything away in them, but the solution is not a permanent one.

Enhanced with brilliant illustration, the words from a Bob Dylan song come to life as the story of how animals got their names is told in this colorful picture book for preschoolers.

When Captain Pinkney brings his 'educational' sideshow--a dead humpback whale--to turn-of-the-century Johnstown, Illinois, Ben learns to stand up for what he believes in and refuses to go along with Tommy's plan to take home a 'souvenir' piece of the whale.