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Jack and the Beanstalk and the French Fries

Mark Teague · Orchard Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

FEE FI FO FUM!When Jack trades the family cow for a handful of magic beans, he gets more beans than he ever expected or wanted. It's bean porridge for breakfast! Bean salad for lunch! Bean chowder for dinner! It doesn't take long before Jack is tired of eating nothing but beans--no matter...
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Bear Sees Colors

Karma Wilson · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Explore colors with Bear in the first of a new concept picture book series from the New York Times bestselling creators of Bear Snores On.Colors, colors everywhere! Can you find colors just like Bear? Karma Wilson's playful text and Jane Chapman's adorable illustrations creatively...
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Boom Snot Twitty

Doreen Cronin · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Boom!Snot ... Twitty?Three unlikely friends,and three different waysof being in the world.This simplest of storiesis a fable for life.
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In My Room: A Book of Creativity and Imagination

Jo Witek · Abrams Appleseed
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

In her room, one little girl can be anything she wants to be and go anywhere she wishes to go, all with the power of her imagination (and paper, markers, and crayons, of course!) . She can go on safari or sail the seven seas. She can be a doctor, teacher, or high-powered businesswoman....
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Storytime: Gus Goes to School

Kate Petty · QEB Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Paperback

Gus imagines what it's like to go to school - which makes this book the perfect introduction for young children preparing to go to school themselves.
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Pearl

Molly Schaar Idle · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Caldecott Honor author-illustrator Molly Idle dazzles with an original mermaid tale about how small, persistent actions can achieve great things.Sometimes the tiniest light can shine the brightest! Like the other mermaids of the deep, Pearl longs to care for the endless beaches, coral reefs,...
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Franky

Leo Timmers · Gecko Press
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Sam has a lot of imagination. He loves robots and looks at the stars, imagining that robots live there. But Sam's parents are so busy doing mundane, ordinary things like vacuuming and gardening that they have have lost all their imagination. Although Sam and his parents speak the same...
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Higgledy Piggledy the Hen Who Loved to Dance

Francesca Simon · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

A delightful farmyard story full of energy and fun from Francesca Simon, author of the bestselling Horrid Henry series.Higgledy Piggledy loves to dance - but what good is a dancing hen? The other animals can do much more useful things like pulling the cart, giving milk and making wool.Then...
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Now

Antoinette Portis · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

This is my favorite cloud. . .because it's the one I am watching.This is my favorite tree. . .because it's the one where I'm swinging.This is my favorite tooth. . .because it's the one that is missing.Follow a little girl as she takes you on a tour through all of her favorite things,...
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Reunion at Cardwell Ranch & The Masked Man

B.J. Daniels · Harlequin
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels continues her acclaimed Cardwell Ranch series! The last of his clan to come home to Big Sky, Montana, Laramie Cardwell wasn't planning to spend the holidays chasing an elusive cat burglar. He's stunned to discover that the masked, black-clad...
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No Nap! Yes Nap!

Margie Palatini · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Mama says, NAP.Baby says, NO NAP!Baby wants to CLAP, DRINK, READ....Anything but NAP!Margie Palatini brings her signature humor to this rollicking sing-song read-along, inviting readers on a fast-paced chase through every room in the house as we follow Mommy on her quest to settle Baby...
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What Your First Grader Needs to Know

E.D. Hirsch Jr. · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your First Grader Needs to Know What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these...
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Elmo Loves You!

Sarah Albee · Random House Books for Young Readers; Stk edition
Format: Print book

In this Sesame Street paperback storybook, Elmo tells in rollicking rhyme how everybody has someone or something special to love. And, as he tells kids, "Elmo loves you!" Girls and boys ages 3 to 7 will love the punch-out friendship cards and more than 50 stickers that...
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This book just ate my dog!

Richard Byrne · Henry Holt
Pages: 32
Format: Book

When her dog disappears into the gutter of the book, Bella calls for help. But when the helpers disappear too, Bella realizes it will take more than a tug on the leash to put things right. Cleverly using the physicality of the book, This book just ate my dog! is inventive, ingenious, and just...
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Super Bugs

Michelle Meadows · Orchard Books
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

The Super Bugs help insects when they are in danger! "Antennae up, eyes down.Buzzing all around the town.Super Bugs, Super Bugs, mighty, mightySuper Bugs!" These heroic insects are ready to fly in and lend a helping hand or wing! The Super Bugs spend all day doing good, and when...
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