In Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose, the Cat Kid Comic Club — led by frogs Naomi, Melvin, and others — faces challenges as each member tries to discover their creative purpose. Some have big ideas that don’t go as planned, and a surprise visitor shakes up the group’s dynamics. Through humorous stories-within-the-story, inventive comic vignettes, and imaginative art using a variety of tech…
In Cat Kid Comic Club: Collaborations, young artists Naomi, Melvin, Poppy, Gilbert, Curly, and their friends work together in creative and hilarious ways to make comics. From action-packed mini-stories like “Frogzilla” to whimsical pieces like reflective haikus (“In the Autumn Pond”), the students learn the value of teamwork and imagination. Using various art techniques — from origami…
Rainforest Secrets takes a journey through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, to discover the animals living in each layer.TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of topics means there are books to interest every child in this compelling series. The series is written by top children''s authors and …
The Ice Age is very cool...for two kids in bathing suits! Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. But nothing can stop them from having another wild adventure--not even a saber-toothed tiger!
The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold. Was it just a story or did Hitler's daughter really exist? And If you were Hitler's daughter, would all the horror that occurred be your fault, too? Do things that happened a long time ago still matter…
Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many. After his father died, Kojo had to quit school to help his mother collect firewood to sell at the market. When his mother receives a loan from some village families, she gives a little money to her son. With this tiny loan, Kojo buys a hen. A year lat…
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In I Broke My Trunk! Gerald tells Piggie the long, crazy story about breaking his trunk. Will Piggie end up with a long, crazy story of her own? Once again, Mo Willems creates another hilarious escapade starring the Geis…
The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold. Was it just a story or did Hitler's daughter really exist? And if you were Hitler's daughter, would all the horror that occurred be your fault, too? Do things that happened a long time ago still matter…