Product Description: The 2015 theme for Manifest West’s annual anthology is “Western Weird.” The works in this collection reflect both myths and suspected truths about the part of the United States we call “the West.” But this year’s edition focuses entirely on the tradition of the strange...read more

Illustrations and easy-to-read text depict a wide variety of trucks, including bulldozers, eighteen-wheelers, garbage trucks, and fire trucks.

The greatest equestrian of the 20th century makes a stunning comeback in the 21st century.Mark Todd's eventing career is the stuff of legend and encompasses one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time.When he 'retired' from competing in eventing in 2000, he had already been named 'Rider of the Century' for his natural empathy with a horse and his extraordinary success, which included back-to-back Olympic gold medals, five Burghley wins and three Badminton victories. He has also show jumped to Olympic level and trained winners on the racecourse. Considered a legendary horseman by his peers, he seemed to have done it all.He returned to train racehorses in his native New Zealand but, eight years later, the idea of a comeback took root, part dare, part personal challenge to see if he could still cut it in a changed sport. Within eight months, he was riding at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and in 2011, he hit the headlines by becoming the oldest rider to win Badminton. He is now at the forefront of New Zealand's resurgence ahead of the London Olympic Games.The story of his progress from dairy farmer to world renown is told with typically laid-back humour, but it reveals the fierce determination, discipline and personal sacrifice which lies behind the relaxed outlook.

In 2005, the Getty published Greece! Rome! Monsters!, a handy guide to the best-known monsters from Greek and Roman mythology. Now comes My Monster Notebook, which presents yet more of these creepy creatures and characters from ancient times. Purporting to be a school notebook found on the sidewalk, the pages reveal the stories of such thrilling and little-known creatures as the huge Teumessian Fox (who was turned to stone by Zeus), Echidna (mother of many, many monsters), hundred-headed Briaereus (who was also a handful), and Typhon (who threw mountains around as if they were beanbags).My Monster Notebook offers a peek at a bunch of creatures you definitely would not want to run into, brought to vivid life by someone who accidentally dropped his (or her) lovingly put together notebook. Fortunately, we found it! It includes a pronunciation guide. How do you say “Nereid”? Ages eight and up.

Product Description: This guidebook, written by experienced student leaders, is filled with advice, examples, ideas, procedures, tips, and templates on how to effectively run and improve college and high school student organizations.

Product Description: This is a book of original poetry by and for teens. Dramatic, plaintive, despairing, and hopeful, this unusual collection has been gathered together by artists Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd and dramatically illustrated with stunning paintings...read more

Explores the diversity and creativity that can be captured in zines, handmade mini-comics or magazines, with helpful tips and practical suggestions for writing, producing, editing, and printing one.

Product Description: Finally the authoritative visual catalog of the baddest asses in pop culture. Three chapters cover guys, girls and the horses they rode in on. From Clint Eastwood to Joan Jett to the DeLorean (the car in Back to the Future). Written and drawn by zine master Mark Todd, Bad Asses is a 104 page whopper...read more

Product Description: A Student Leadership Manual: Written by experienced student leaders for those who want to know how to run a student assembly, association, body, club, committee, council, government, or group; Covers material suitable for just about any student organization at colleges (two-year, four-year, and graduate schools), high schools, or other institutions of higher learning; and Loaded with advice, approaches, examples, experiences, explanations, ideas, methods, procedures, recommendations, tips, and templates...read more

Billy Nobel was always looking for The Big One. It was something that always eluded him until the night he ran over UFO expert Earl Bob Jackson while he was relieving himself on the side of a mountain pass in the middle of a snowstorm. Now with a dead body behind him and a newly stolen Cadillac DeVille, Billy finds himself staring "The Big One" right in the eye when he drives into Silverville, a quiet Colorado mountain community with a sagging economy and a UFO scheme to bring the tourist dollars in. First an amusement park and museum, then a celestial motif for the town. Cowboys and embezzlers, tourists and con men, Hells Angels and religious zealots all get caught up in the frenzy, some hoping to make a quick buck, others seeking a spiritual message from beyond the stars. It is the payoff Billy has been waiting for his entire life-if he can just keep up the charade long enough to get his cash and skip town before the locals and cops discover the con. A funny and irreverent novel about the New West and the growing pains that change brings.

The entries in the journals of two sixth grade students reveal much about their personal feelings, family lives, and a growing interest in poetry sparked by their new substitute teacher.

Bold illustrations enhance this book of eleven poems about the different creatures and creations one can be on Halloween.

A kooky countdown of animals starting a remote control car race presents the numbers from ten to one.

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Product Description: Book by Todd, Mark