Josh’s best friend, Rosa, loves mud soup. What’s worse, she keeps trying to get Josh to taste it. He’s been able to escape so far, but that’s all about to change. In this simple, multicultural story, kids will relate to Josh’s food anxiety, and page by page, their anticipation will grow along with his until they find out what’s really in mud soup. Recipe included!

Simple words and short sentences for the newest readers.

It’s hard to fall in love with an earnest，appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger！ And in J。K.Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets，the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone，he is in terrible danger indeed。As if it’s not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year。But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car，it is just his luck to crash into a valuable （but clearly vexed） Whomping Willow。Still，all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts。 Chilling，malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry， and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him。 Soon it’s not just Harry who is worried about surviva

High-interest stories make reading fun! Stories have been tested for vocabulary and sentence length 'to help you makethe right choice! A letter from an education specialist givesyou valuable advice on how to read to your child and how tolisten to your child read to you! Learning to read is one of the most important accomplishments of early childhood. --Francie Alexander, Reading Specialist

Arthur doesn't realize how precious his pesky little sister can be until the day he rushes off to school to avoid her. This time, it's D.W. who gives Arthur the nicest gift and surprise.

Wendell Flutz’s room isn’t a mess. It’s a total pigsty. But Wendell’s mother can’t get him to clean it up.Wendell doesn’t think the mess is so awful. In fact, he doesn’t even mind it when one day he discovers a real pig sitting on his bed!

High-interest stories make reading fun!Stories have been tested for vocabulary and sentence length to help you make the right choice!Aletter from an education secialist gives you valuable advice on how to read to your child and how to listen to your child read to you! Learning to read is one of the most important accomplishmets of early childhood.

There's a new boy in kindergarten, and guess what? He's the handsomest guy Junie B. has ever seen. She and Lucille and that Grace all want him for a boyfriend. Only, he thinks Junie B. is a nutball. Just 'cause she couldn't stop laughing and rolling. So how is she supposed to get that boy to love her?

The cultural resilience of fairy tales is incontestable. Surviving over the centuries and thriving in a variety of media, fairy tales continue to enrich our imaginations and shape our lives. This Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales examines the genre, its cultural implications--and its critical history. The editor has gathered fairy tales from around the world to reveal the range and play of these stories over time. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood,' "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Hansel and Gretel." It includes multicultural variants of these tales, along with sophisticated literary re*ings. Each tale type is preceded by an introduction, and annotations are provided throughout. Also included in this collection of over forty stories are tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. "Criticism" collects twelve essays that interrogate different aspects of fairy tales by exploring their social origins, h