Kindergarten-Grade 2–Portly is trying to find his true self. He was born a hippopotamus, but is sick of wading in water and eating boring, old grass. Searching for new possibilities, he sets off on a quest where he encounters a herd of rhinoceros, a bat, an elephant, and a giraffe, and transforms himself into a hippo-gir-ele-bat-onoceros. Each new identity has comical, albeit unsuccessful consequences. His adventures make him long for the cool waters of home and grass. Portly and his parents are glad to be reunited, but when he sees a monkey swinging from tree to tree, he knows his explorations must continue. The artist uses bright, sunny colors, portraying this jungle fantasy through large, eye-catching paintings. Portly's multifaceted personality is well illustrated. While the theme is far from new, children will enjoy the humorous tale and will identify with Portly's desire to try out new personas. A smooth flowing, witty text gives this tale good storytime potential.–Be Astengo, Alachua County Library

From there to here, from here to there, funny things areeverywhere. In this hilarious exploration of simple concepts suchas colours, numbers and opposites, Dr. Seuss presents a crazy worldof boxing Goxes and winking Yinks that drink pink ink! With hisunique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotousrhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helpingthem learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfullyanarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's top tenfavourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as aglobal best-seller, with nearly half a billion books soldworldwide. As the first step in a major rebrand programme,HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss's best-selling books,including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, GreenEggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. In response to consumer demand, thebright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance onreading levels, with the standard paperbacks divided into threereading strands

Learning to count is made fun in this crazy tale of a dog, alion and a tiger all showing off how many apples they can balanceon their heads as they skip, walk the tightrope and roller skatetheir way through the book. This title belongs to the "BeginnerBook" series developed by Dr. Seuss, in which the essentialingredients of rhyme, rhythm and repetition are combined with zanyartwork and humour to create a range of books that will encouragechildren to learn to read. Originally published under the pseudonymof Theo. LeSieg, this book is being relaunched with a new coverdesign which reveals, for the first time, the true identity of theauthor - Dr. Seuss himself.

In all likelihood, your mother or father read you these poems and remember their parents reading the same. This collection of poetry by the creator of Winnie the Pooh was first published in 1924. With its companion volume Now We Are Six, the little books became two of the biggest bestsellers in publishing history. Children all over the world have heard about changing the guard at Buckingham Palace; James James Morrison Morrison Weather by George Dupree; the three little foxes who kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes; and, of course, Christopher Robin, named for A.A. Milne's son. Adults and older children will enjoy Milne's poems too, as some of his humor is subtly directed at a more sophisticated audience. But younger children are the ones who love the naughty Mary Jane (lovely rice pudding again?) and the bears on the corners of London's streets. Read these poems aloud and pass along (or start) a family tradition. (Ages 5 to 9) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

That behatted and bow-tied cat from Dr. Seuss's The Cat in theHat is back, and, not surprisingly, is up to all sorts of mischief.This time, Sally and her brother are stuck shoveling snow: "Thiswas no time for play./ This was no time for fun./ This was no timefor games./ There was work to be done." But--you guessed it--thelaughing Hat Cat has other ideas, as he lets himself in to eat cakein their tub. He leaves behind "a big long pink cat ring," which hethen handily cleans with "MOTHER'S WHITE DRESS!" The dress thenloses its pink stain to the wall, then Dad's shoes, then the rug inthe hall, until finally the Cat must call in some assistance: frominside his hat comes Little Cat A, then Littler Cats B, C, D, E,and so on, nested like dolls in ever tinier hats. With this pack offelines, Sally and her brother may get rid of those stains, butthey'll likely never be rid of that rascally cat. As should beexpected from the good doctor, The Cat in the Hat Comes Backprovides an excellent reader (and alphabet prime

One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king, and then the wild rumpus begins. But when Max has sent the monsters to bed, and everything is quiet, he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all. When Maurice Sendak won the American Library Association's Caldecott Medal for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, he said: 'Max, the hero of my book, discharges his anger against his mother, and returns to the real world sleepy, hungry and at peace with himself...from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustration as best they c