This rollicking story-in-verse is about a determined young pigwho absolutely refuses to leave her mud puddle--much to the dismayof her family! Charlotte Pomerantz's tongue-twisting nonsenseverse--made even more exuberantly hilarious by James Marshall'sillustrations--is sure to delight both children and adults.

Madeline and Pepito have run off to join the carnival with a band of traveling gypsies! At first they're having the time of their lives, but then they get homesick. Leave it to clever Miss Clavel to find Madeline and Pepito and bring them home.

这是一个关于友谊和分享的经典故事：乔治和玛莎在分享一只梨子的时候相遇了，本来他们是在瓜分食物，不小心纠缠到了一起，不过既然分不开，就只好一起行动了。 梨子、西瓜……随着一页一页异形纸张的翻开，不同的图形打破了读者原有想想跳脱出来。后，乔治和玛莎从一对冤家变成了一对好朋友，谁也离不开谁。正在这时候，空中出现了一只凶恶的大鸟，向他们扑来。 这下，乔治和玛莎为了逃命，被大鸟啄掉了尾巴，他们分开了。接下来该怎么办呢？各走各的，或者他们还是在一起……？ Jonathan and Martha are two lonely works that live on oppositesides of a tree. One day, a big juicy pear lands on the groundbetween them. Jonathan nibbles from the left, and Martha from theright - and soon they are caught in a tangle. Using his signaturestyle of eye-catching illustration and collage and simplenarrative, Horacek weave togethe

It's the night before Christmas and everyone is sick in bed. All except brave Madeline, who is up and about and feeling just fine. Taking care of eleven little girls and Miss Clavel is hard work, but Madeline finds help from a magical merchant peddling flying carpets door-to-door. Now the girls are going on a Christmas journey that will surely make them forget their sniffles and sneezes. Great for gift-giving and group sharing, Madeline's Christmas now joins the five other books about Madeline as a deluxe, full-sized paperback.

6 In its extraordinary debut, Safari , introduced the world to Photicular technology. The cheetah bounded, the African elephant flapped its ears and readers could not believe their eyes. Now the creators of Safari take their work a step further. Ocean offers not only a refinement of inventor Dan Kainen s Photicular technology, but a subject undulating creatures of the deep perfectly suited to the immersive visual pleasure of the process. Ocean is like being on a dive. Open the book, and the reader is swept into the magic of an underwater world, face-to-face with a floating Yellow-Banded Sweetlips; with a glow-in-the-dark Deep-Sea Anglerfish; with a Sea Horse swaying in balletic motion; with a Sand Tiger Shark gliding along the ocean floor, its gaze haunting, its hook-toothed mouth gulping open and closed. The text by Carol Kaufmann enchants with its de*ions of coral reefs; a journey on Alvin , the 17-ton submersible; and a meditation on our oceans. Then, for each creature, she writes a lively an

In this gently satiric fable, Ungerer pokes fun atself-important adults who are afraid of anything or anyoneunfamiliar, and reminds us that there is indeed no place like home.On its first publication in the US in 1967, at the height of theSpace Race, Moon Man won the Book Week prize for books for childrenaged 4-8, and Maurice Sendak described it in "Book Week" as 'Easilyone of the bet picture books in recent years'. Since then, it hasbeen translated into 12 languages. "Moon Man" will be the nextclassic Ungerer tale to be turned into a full-length feature film,following on from the success of the award-winning "The ThreeRobbers", which was shown in French and German cinemas in 2007 andis due to be launched on DVD in the English-speaking world in Fall2008. Bored and lonely in his shimmering home in space, the MoonMan watches the people on Earth dancing and having a good time.Justonce, he thinks, he would like to join in the fun. So one night, heholds on to a passing comet and crash lands on Earth. But th

When two children climb over the garden wall of the big house,they embark on a voyage of discovery. For this uncharted territoryreveals a topiary ship, complete with a wheelhouse that looksrather like a garden shed. It isn't long before the shipowner comesacross the stowaways, but their communal sense of adventure isdestined to see them all through the eye of the storm!

Mice, a rottweiler, an arachnid and a few other assorted critters make sturdy reappearances in five board book versions of picture books. In Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint, "three white mice on a white piece of paper" enjoy a colorful romp, while in Walsh's Mouse Count a similar gaggle narrowly escapes being served for dinner (Harcourt/Red Wagon, $6 each, 28p, ages 1-3 ISBN 0-15-200265-0; -200266-9 Sept.). Yet another mouse searches the animal kingdom for companionship?and finds an unexpected respondent?in Eric Carle's Do You Want to Be My Friend? (HarperFestival, $6.95, 32p, ages 2-6, ISBN 0-694-00709-9 Sept.). The rewards of industriousness are celebrated in a second Carle title, The Very Busy Spider; its embossed web brings a tactile dimension to his familiar collage artwork (Philomel, $9.95, 26p, ages 2-up ISBN 0-399-22919-1 Aug.). Finally, the canine in question is Alexandra Day's beloved Carl, who takes charge of a crew of toddlers in Carl Goes to Day Care (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $5.95, ages 1-3 ISBN

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: With Illustrations by Rebecca Ashdown 老负鼠的猫经（丽贝卡阿什插图） T. S. Eliot (作者), Rebecca Ashdown (插图作者) 基本信息 出版社: Faber Faber; Main (2014年2月6日) 丛书名: Faber Children's Classics 平装: 128页 语种： 英语 ISBN: 0571311865 条形码: 9780571311866 商品尺寸: 13.5 x 1 x 18 cm 商品重量: 113 g ASIN: 0571311865 内容简介 The cat himself knows and will never confess...'. To celebrate Old Possum's 75th anniversary we have commissioned lively new illustrations from Rebecca Ashdown for T S Eliot's original book of Practical Cats. Featuring Macavity, the Mystery Cat; Mr Mistofelees, the Original Conjuring Cat; Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer and all the gang, this is a must for every child's bookshelf and is a great companion to the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage show. 作者简介 Thomas Stearns Eliot