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.

Reissued in a board book edition for the toddler set, Owl Babies reassures children as it enchants their parents, offering the gentle sure promise needed by every young child that Mommy will always come home. When three baby owls awake in the middle of the night to find their mother gone, they fret and worry and try to be brave until, at last, she returns. Full color.

The nasty Swish Train drivers have challenged Duffy and Jackto a race and when the flag goes down, the Swish Train speeds outof sight!

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

A Caldecott Honor Book An ALA Notable Book A Booklist Editors' Choice A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the cityignore them and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall willamount to anything.

While hiking in themountains with his parents, Albert tumbles off a cliff—but is savedby the cloud children who utter magic words that make him verylight and keep him from falling. Albert has a wonderful timejumping, swimming, painting, and racing in the sky with the cloudchildren. That is until he remembers his mother and father and hisown little bed at home. It takes th... (展开全部) While hiking in the mountains with his parents,Albert tumbles off a cliff—but is saved by the cloud children whoutter magic words that make him very light and keep him fromfalling. Albert has a wonderful time jumping, swimming, painting,and racing in the sky with the cloud children. That is until heremembers his mother and father and his own little bed at home. Ittakes the cloud queen, the man in the moon, and a few more magicwords to return Albert to earth.

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

这一本大卫合集包含了《大卫，不可以》，《大卫，上学去》和《大卫，惹麻烦》，以及《好样的，费格斯！》，前三本书都是改编于作者小时候画的漫画，漫画里面写满的都是No！和David！，因为这两个字一个是妈妈常对自己说的话，一个是自己的名字。 《 Duck on A Bike 》 是作者大卫 香农的代表作，作者用鸭子骑车的故事告诉我们，任何不平凡的事情都需要有大胆尝试的勇气。 该绘本荣获 : 美国图书馆协会优秀童书奖 入选美国纽约公共图书馆 每个人都应该知道的 100 种绘本 《 Alice The Fairy 》 则几乎是《大卫 , 不可以》的女孩版。艾丽斯有无穷无尽魔法，将爸爸的饼干 变 成她的，之后再补偿性地为公爵大人（爸爸）变出新的衣服和王冠；用魔棍指挥树叶飘落下来，并用魔棍在水中画出神奇的图画；让自

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A magical book whose dreamy artwork perfectly captures the twilightworld of a small child, determined not to go to sleep.