Richard Scarry and Christmas combine to create this adventurous holiday picture book! It’s Christmas, and Richard Scarry’s beloved cast of Busytown characters are gearing up for the holiday! And nobody is more excited than Mr. Frumble. In fact, he’s so excited he sets out for the North Pole to become one of Santa Bear’s helpers. But when Santa Bear mixes up the dates and starts his deliveries the night before the night before Christmas, it’s up to the ever-clumsy Mr. Frumble to save the holiday for his Busytown friends! Full of detailed illustrations, humor, and adventure, The Night Before the Night Before Christmas! is the perfect way for children—and Scarry fans of all ages—to celebrate the holiday season.

Jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises and games in every subject, Brain Quest Workbook: Grade 1 reinforces what kids are learning in the classroom. The workbook's lively layout and easy-to-follow explanations make learning fun, interactive, and concrete. Plus it's written to help parents follow and explain key concepts. Includes phonics, spelling, vocabulary, find the rhyme, addition, subtraction, skip counting, time, money, maps, science, brain boxes, and much, much more.

Educators stress it, journalists constantly report on it, andelected officials make it the linchpin of programs like "No ChildLeft Behind"—developing good reading skills in the early grades iscritical to a student's continued success. But children don’t needto struggle—what they need is to work on the basics, a goal thatcan be helped greatly by parents. Announcing the completely revisedand updated Brain Quest Reading, the tool that combines accessible,entertaining, onepage stories with curriculum-based questions. Forkids, it's a fun way to hone their language skills; for parents,it's both a perfect assessment tool and an ideal aid that takes theguesswork out of how to help their children. Featuring 20% new material and vetted by the Brain Quest AdvisoryPanel of award-winning educators, Brain Quest Reading takes athorough approach to learning the fundamentals of reading andlanguage arts. First comes an original short text or storyillustrated in full color, with 56 per grade. Following the te

Dora the Explorer is back for more adventures in her second phonics box! Based on the best research on how children develop reading skills, these twelve books introduce a carefully selected progression of letter sounds-starting starting with the easiest and most common. Each book helps build a young reader's confidence with repeated examples of the letter sounds being focused on, as well as "words to learn" and "words to sound out." These books will readily appeal to Dora's audience of beginning readers as they capture all of the familiar elements from Dora's hit TV show, including her spunky personality.

A colorful, engaging, FUN language arts workbook thats gives first-graders practice with reading and writing sight (high-frequency) words. Based on Scholastic Magazines successful "100 Words" product line, this exciting new series of language arts workbooks focuses on the 100 sight words first-graders need to read. Colorful art and photographs illustrate the 256 pages of lively activities, including practice pages, word games, and puzzles. Six cut-and-fold mini-books encourage children to try out their sight-word skills--by reading! Includes a poster and stickers for more educational fun!

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original 1958publication of "Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, "RandomHouseChildren's Books is proud to offer the classic edition in a specialfoil-covered limited party edition. Dr. Seuss is, quite simply, themost beloved children's book author in the world.

Continuing the successful "Scholastic 100 Words" line of exciting new language arts workbooks, this product focuses on 100 essential words kids need to know by sixth grade. Colorful art and photographs illustrate 256 pages of lively activities, including reading and writing practice, comprehension, critical thinking exercises and word puzzles. Includes special dictionary pages and dictionary skill tips and colorful bookmarks with vocabulary-building tips.

As little Marco describes the horse and wagon he saw onMulberry Street, they are transformed into an elephant and a bandwagon with a retinue of police.