The milestone 50th GARFIELD compilation book—with aSPECIAL EDITION ANIMATED COVER! The fat cat returns for his 50th book—a brand-newcollection of hilarious strips, featuring Jon, Odie, and all thefamous characters in the world of the one-and-only Garfield.Featuring a one-of-a-kind lenticular animated cover!

"A beloved Lionni mouse discovers the magic of music." As Geraldine, a little mouse, begins nibbling at a huge hunk of Parmesan cheese, she uncovers a big cheese statue of a mouse playing what seems to be a flute but on closer inspection is really its tail. That night Geraldine is woken by silver and gold sounds. "This must be music " she says. And every night the cheese mouse fills Geraldine's hideaway with beautiful music. Then one day her hungry mice friends ask her to share her cheese with them. How Geraldine's new love of music enfuses her with a magic of her own provides a satisfying conclusion to this delightful tale. Called by "The Horn Book Magazine ""a worthy successor to "Frederick,"" this is the first time this fable of friendship and sharing has appeared in paperback.

Make learning dictionary skills a snap! Inside you'll find more than a dozen kid-pleasing activities, such as a Fun-etic Fairy Tale,Prefix-agon Puzzles, and the Q & A-Z Board Game. Students practice looking up words, determining parts of speech, using pronunciation guides, learning about prefixes and acronyms, and much more.Perfect for individual or small-group work.

Row, Row,Row Your Boat Join the animals as they row, splash and rock their way gently down the stream. Pull the tabs and sing along with our lively boat full of happy animals. The Pop-up Boook "Row, Row,Row Your Boat" will give your children the funs when they read this cute book!

Illus. in full color. The letters on an alphabet tree, torn and tossed by the wind, find strength in banding together to form words. Then a clever caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace in a gentle parable about the power of the written word

Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts? Come again? Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they don't really mean what they say, idioms can stump even the native English-speaker. Marvin Terban makes understanding idioms "as easy as pie" with the revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS. Explanations for, and origins of, more than 700 everyday American idioms, complete with kid-friendly sample sentences. The entries are amusing as well as educational. Alphabetical listing and cross-referencing index makes finding idioms a "piece of cake."

THREE BOOKS IN ONE A TRIPLE HELPING OF GARFIELD HUMOR MEANS THREE TIMES THE FUN! He used to be perfect, but now he’s even better! Garfield, the fatcat with the super sized ego, is back in the spotlight, dissing hisdimwitted owner Jon – even pilfering his pants. Some cats chasemice; Garfield prefers to take legal action. When down on the farm,the city kitty puts up with-and puts down-Jon and his barnyardbrother. No wonder Garfield’s often in a bad mood. But no matter what, he’s always in the mood for food! The Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack series collects the Garfield comic-strip compilation books in a new, full-colorformat. Garfield may have gone through a few changes, but one thinghas stayed the same: his enormous appetite for food and fun. Soenjoy some super sized laughs with the insatiable cat, because toomuch fun is never enough! GARFIELD BEEFS UP GARFIELD GETS COOKIN’ GARFIELD EATS CROW

The Children's OCEAN LIFE Encyclopedia is a clear and comprehensive guide to the creatures that inhabit the world's oceans and seas. It is full of fascinating facts and intriguing information. Discover the answers to questions such as: which is the biggest fish in the ocean? how do penguins survive in icy Antarctica ? why does the ocean have tides and waves? how do dolphins talk to each other?

This Norton Critical Edition reprints the 1897 editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and the 1876 edition of The Hunting of the Snark. New to the Second Edition is "The Wasp in a Wig," a recently discovered episode Carroll deleted from Through the Looking-Glass, but which fits into the story in interesting ways. Each text is accompanied by ample explanatory notes. "Backgrounds" reprints new selections from recent biographies of Carroll and from recent editions of his diaries and letters. Our understanding of and appreciation for Carroll’s life and literature are deepened by new contributions from Anne Clark, Tony Beale, E. M. Rowell, and, most revealingly, Carroll himself. "Criticism" retains seven seminal critiques from the First Edition while adding four important recent essays by Nina Auerbach, Roger Henkle, Robert Polhemus, and Donald Rackin. A revised and updated Selected Bibliography is also included.

Read a new story or rhyme every day of the year in this fabulously illustrated treasury for boys. Packed with a cast of traditional favourites and original characters, it is perfect for both reading together and reading alone.

A story which is designed to help beginner readers grasp the important link between sounds and the letters that represent them. Bella's Bedspread is the humorous tale of a girl and her flying bedspread.

A little green door in a old willow tree suddenly opened. It was the doorway to Fairyland! Children will love to listen to this magical story as they turn the pages of the look and gaze at shirley Barler's delightful illustrations.

"J.M. Barrie's fantasy adventure with pirates, mermaids, and fairies, brought to life in a new book-and-CD edition." Peter Pan refuses to grow up. Instead he spends his never-ending childhood making mischief and seeking out adventure as leader of the Lost Boys on the small island of Neverland. His only cares in the world are stopping the pirates, led by the dangerous Captain Hook, from hurting any of his friends. Occasionally he even gets to see kids from the ordinary world, but he has never brought one back. Until he meets Wendy Darling... With Hear It Read It, Sourcebooks is proud to introduce a new take on this classic story, in a sturdy hardcover that children will return to again and again. For generations parents and grandparents have shared the classics with children as they start to read and "graduate" from ABCs to picture books to chapter books. These tales need no introduction: they are the same stories that were read to them, the very same adventures that filled their imaginations and taught them t

Count the marbles. What’s the opposite of fast? How many pennies make one nickel? Suppose you mix red and blue. What color will you get? Plus patterns, shapes, mazes, opposites, rhymes, "What's Wrong With This Picture?" pictures—and don't forget the Genius Points! Here are 300 questions and answers to build essential learning skills as parents and children work together. Vetted by a panel of America’s highest award-winning teachers, and embraced by kids and parents because it flat-out works, Brain Quest opens a world of information and education with its fast-paced question-and-answer format, bright full-color illustrations, and lively attitude 作者简介：

Join Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred-Acre Wood as they encounter many of chidhood's first expericeces.Follow Pooh on his first day of school as he realizes that learning is fun.Join Tigger on his moving day as he finds out what a moving experience it can really be.And go along with Pooh as he baby-sits little Roo and discovers that it actually doesn't involve much sitting at all!This edlightful collection celebrates the milestones that matter most to young children.

THE LAST MIMZY IS THE IDEAL INTRODUCTION TO AN AUTHOR WHO WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME–AND WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME. These seventeen classic stories create their own unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angry aliens. In “Mimsy Were the Borogoves”–the inspiration for New Line Cinema’s major motion picture The Last Mimzy–a boy finds a discarded box containing a treasure trove of curious objects. When he and his sister begin to play with these trinkets–including a crystal cube that magnifies the unimaginable and a strange doll with removable organs that don’t quite correspond to those of the human body–their parents grow concerned. And they should be. For the items are changing the way the children think and perceive the world around them–for better or worse. Ray Bradbury called Henry Kuttner “a man who shaped science fiction and fantasy in its most important years.” Marion Zimmer Bradley and Roger Zelazny said he was a major insp

How does America's foremost feline do it? There's so muchlasagna to be eaten, so many dogs to kick around, that he doesn'thave time to worry about current events. He is the maestro of mirthand the purveyor of puns to his millions of fans. With Garfield inyour life, is there room for anything more...?