Product Description: This impassioned anti-war cartoon book by one of America’s foremost illustrators answers again—in visual images and for different countries—the question posed by Norman Mailer 42 years ago in Why Are We in Vietnam?In other words, why are we half way around the world killing people who have done us no harm?Marc Simont’s cartoons are satiric dispatches from the front, beginning with Vietnam and ending in Iraq and Afghanistan (so far)...read more

Product Description: Black and Littlejack are bad men. Littlejack has a map that indicates the existence of a treasure on a far and lonely island. He needs a ship to get there. Black has a ship. So they team up and sail off on Black’s vessel, the Aeiu...read more

Product Description: NATE THE GREAT has just received a strange musical note. The note tells Nate's friend Pip what his mother wants him to do at four o'clock. Their friend Rosamond has turned the note into a riddle. Nate checks Rosamond's garage, but doesn't find any clues...read more

Product Description: When Oliver asks his friend Nate the Great to  find his lost weed, Nate can't say no. This isn't  just any weed. It's a Superweed that Oliver bought  from Rosamond's Adopt-A-Weed  sale.First Nate must figure out where to look for the  weed...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Getting all the facts, asking the right questions, and narrowing down the suspects, Nate the Great and his dog Sludge solve a variety of mysteries.

Product Description: Shortly after a breakfast generously supplied with pancakes, Natethe Great got an urgent call from Annie."I lost a picture," said Annie. "Can you help me find it?""Of course," said Nate. "I have found lost balloons, books, slippers, chickens...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Getting all the facts, asking the right questions, and narrowing down the suspects, Nate the Great and his dog Sludge solve a variety of mysteries.

Product Description: "It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker," and here and there around the city ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Ant's older brother gets rid of the monster under Ant's bed, forgives Ant for drawing on his homework, tries to read a story, and helps Ant write a letter to Santa.

Product Description: Nate, the great detective, and his dog, Sludge, are off to San Francisco! They're going to visit Nate's cousin Olivia Sharp. She's a detective, too, and a very busy one.Olivia isn't around to solve her case number 22. Her client, Duncan, has lost his joke book...read more

Explains how volcanoes are formed and how they affect the earth when they erupt

Both amusing and factual, this is a joyous account of what trees can mean to a child

Product Description: Minneapolis Simpkin is not allowed to have a pet, so she finds the most unusual replacement.

This Caldecott Medal-winning picture book speaks simply and elegantly of the many pleasures trees provide, and the beauty of the everyday world.

The Caldecott Medal-winning artist for A Tree Is Nice offers an illustrated version of Thurber's classic fantasy about a meek man who imagines himself in the role of a number of daredevil heroes, accompanied by the author's whimsical autobiographical essay 'The Secret Life of James Thurber.' 35,000 first printing.

A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him.

A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him.

Product Description: Independent Canada goose Emily learns the importance of her flock and her friends when she has a narrow escape from a hungry farmer's wife. By the illustrator of the Caldecott Award-winning A Tree Is Nice. "

A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him.

While on a picnic, a family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him, in a heartwarming story based on a true story. A Caldecott Honor Book & ALA Notable Children's Book. Reprint. (Ages 4-8)

Product Description: When a little dog appears at a family picnic, the girl and boy play with him all afternoon, and they name him Willy. At day's end they say good-bye. But the dog has won their hearts and stays on their minds.The following Saturday the family returns to the picnic grounds to look for Willy, but they are not alone -- the dogcatcher is looking for him, too ...read more

Amazon.com Review: "It was a great day for a picnic," begins Marc Simont's lovely, touching, happy-ending picture book, The Stray Dog. And indeed, judging from the opening spread's clear skies, sparkling water, zooming boats, and adventure-bound cars it looks to be so. The story begins as a scruffy little dog makes an appearance at a family's picnic. The children name him Willy, and by the end of the day they desperately want to take him home. The family drives away, but all week they can think of nothing but their new furry friend. They return to picnic at the same spot the very next week, much to Willy's good fortune--and that of the newly smitten family. As in all the best illustrated children's books, Simont lets his pictures tell the story. We don't have to be told how wrenching it is for the kids to leave Willy behind--we see their small outstretched arms out the car window and the puppy watching them go. Simont doesn't have to tell us that the next Saturday the family is completely preoccupied with the possibility of another Willy sighting. We see the family, silent, munching, and just to the side is a plate of meat they've put out, just in case. Young readers will adore this simple tale of puppy love, but adults will be equally charmed. Simont illustrated his first book in 1939, and since then has illustrated nearly 100 titles, including the 1949 Caldecott Honor Book The Happy Day, by Ruth Krauss and Janice May Udry's A Tree Is Nice, winner of the 1957 Caldecott Medal. This book is our favorite so far of the year! (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson

Describes various scientific theories which explore the extinction of the dinosaurs

Although he is always chosen last and sent to play in right field, a young boy discovers the importance of that position.

Product Description: In this delightful follow-up to My Brother, Ant, Anthony comes face to face with a growling bear, pretends to be a dog, and hears a giant tapping on the window. These enchanting stories capture the relationship between Ant and his brother with warmth and humor.