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!

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

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.

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.

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