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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

Bill Martin · H. Holt
Pages: 22
Format: Print book

What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child? Lots of noise!Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book -- look at the last page!Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle are two of the most...
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Babies Can Sleep Anywhere

Lisa Wheeler · Abrams Appleseed
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

What better way to encourage a little one to sleep than with a soothing rhyme and image after image of sleeping animals! This gentle picture book introduces the sleeping habits of many animals - from puppies to whales - and compares them to the sometimes-unusual habits of human babies....
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Penguinaut!

Marcie Colleen · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Orville lives at the zoo, surrounded by animal pals who go on exciting adventures. A hang gliding rhino! A deep-sea diving giraffe! Orville struggles to keep up, until one day he concocts an adventure all his own: build a spaceship and fly to the moon all by himself. Can one tiny penguin...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 Volume 4: Welcome to the Team

Andrew Chambliss · Dark Horse Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Buffy is unwillingly recruited by the demon Illyria and a mystical council to take down the Siphonmdashfor good. He is on the loose again, and a danger to all remnants of magic! Meanwhile, back home the loss of magic has begun to affect those closest to Buffy... Collect issues 16-20 of Season...
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Baby Animals Day & Night

Phyllis Limbacher Tildes · Charlesbridge
Pages: 12
Format: Print book

Sleepy babies and wide-awake babies day and night. A companion to Pyllis Limbacher Tildes's Baby Animals Black and White and Baby Animals Spots and Stripes, Baby Animals Day and Night introduces diurnal and nocturnal animals in pretty black and white images, perfect for developing...
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Let's Play, Dory!

Bonita Garr · Random House
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Dory loves to play hide-and-seek - when she remembers that she's playing! Help the forgetful fish from Disney/Pixar Finding Dory find her friends in this storybook featuring over 30 stickers. It's perfect for boys and girls ages 3 to 7.
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The Tree House That Jack Built

Bonnie Verburg · Orchard Books
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling illustrator Mark Teague brings Bonnie Verburgs irresistable rhyming text that is brimming with animals and action to vivid lifeHere is the boyup in the treewhere he built a house overlooking the seaYes This is the tree house that Jack builtWith ladders swings turretsand elaborate...
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Fisher-Price Little People Who's New at School?

Fisher-Price® Little People® · Reader's Digest Children's Books
Pages: 24
Format: Paperback

Classic Fisher-Price Little People® fun in a timeless 8 x 8 format!It's the first day of school and the Little People® friends, Eddie and Sarah Lynn, can hardly wait to start their day. What fun does the teacher have in store? Find out in Who's New at School!
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Veggies with Wedgies

Todd H. Doodler · Little Simon
Format: Hardcover

What could be funnier than a vegetable wearing underwear? A veggie with a wedgie, of course! When Farmer John puts out his underwear to dry, he has no idea that it will draw the curiosity of all the vegetables on the farm. They think underwear looks cool. And fun. And they desperately want...
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How to Grow a Friend

Sara Gillingham · Random House Childrens Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A lovely metaphor teaches valuable lessons in how to treat others and make friendships blossom! Making a friend takes patience, care, and room to bloom - just like growing a flower. Soon your little gardeners will have their very own green thumbs for this most important of life skills.
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The Night Before Christmas

Clement Clarke Moore · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

In her fresh imagining of Clement C. Moore's timeless classic, acclaimed watercolorist Holly Hobbie introduces an entirely new character to capture the magic and heighten the wonder of this exciting, mysterious time. Her inimitable illustrations glow with warmth and feeling and will...
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And the Cars Go...

William Bee · Candlewick
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Hop in for a droll read-aloud vrooming with sound words and intricate illustrations of all things that go.What's this? A huge traffic jam? But everyone's in a hurry! There's the family in the paneled station wagon (brrrm, brrrmm) , packed to the roof rack with gear for the beach. There's...
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Little Sleepyhead

Elizabeth McPike · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Baby's bedtime is more cuddly than ever! Tired little eyes,ready now for bed,Tired little everything,precious sleepyhead. By the end of a busy...
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Disney Parks Presents: Pirates of the Caribbean: Purchase Includes a CD with Song!

Disney Book Group · Disney Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

The song "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) , " composed in the 1960s, echoes in the treasure-filled caverns and salty seaside villas of the world-famous Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. Guests leave their boats with their hearts held captive by this boisterous song. In this...
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Jake And The Never Land Pirates: After A While, Crocodile

Melinda LaRose · Turtleback Books
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Tick tock! Tick tock! Captain Hook has a beastly time hunting for treasure in Crocodile Creek. Will Jake and the crew be able to save Hook from the Croc in the nick of time?
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