New board books in the best-selling Mini Masters series feature beautiful paintings from Cassatt and Picasso and rhyming text introducing budding artists to these famous masters.

Hey baby! Look at these bright, beautiful colors!

As a boy in the segregated South, author Richard Wright was determined to borrow books from the public library. His story vividly illustrates the power of determination in making a dream into reality.

'Mrs. Minarik is at her superb best in depicting the charming childlikeness of Little Bear's delight in visiting his grandparents.' —H. 1962 Caldecott Honor BookNotable Children's Books of 1963 (ALA)

Diggers are noisy, strong, and big. Diggers can carry and push and dig. Diggers have shovels to scoop and lift, blades that bulldoze, shunt, and shift. Sloshing and squelching, and smashing and bashing, the construction machinery d...

Six-Dinner Sid is a Smarties Prize Winner and a NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts Selection.

A funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the 'magic square.' A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers adds up to the sa...

An invisible princess, a magic ring, and more adventures than you could dream of. This is what Gerald, Kathleen and Jimmy find when they stumble upon a mysterious castle. At first it all appears to be a lark. But the children soon dis...

Shade, a young silverwing bat in search of his father, discovers a mysterious Human-made building containing a vast forest. Could his father be there? Home to thousands of bats, the indoor forest is warm as a summer night, teeming wit...

The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.

Jack and Annie are whisked off to the vast plains of Africa, where they mustsolve Morgan le Fay's third magical riddle. But that's only the beginning! Oncethe riddle is solved, they still have to get past a pride of lions, a humongous...

Merlin the Magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to askfor help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania! The brother-and-sister team quickly head off...

Take the plunge with Jack and Annie!Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness—secrets they need if they're going to save Merlin. But when the Magic Tree House leads them to a tiny deserted island in the middle...

The Magic Tree House transportss Jack and Annie to the freezing Arctic.There, they must solve the final riddle to become master librarians. But it'snot going to be easy--especially when they have cracking ice, a seal hunter,and a prod...

When Odysseus must leave his home to fight the Trojan War, he never imagines that heíll be away from his family for so many years. Now, at long last, he is leading his men home across the seas. But many dangers await them ñ and no...

Gritch the witch flies to Old MacDonald's farm for some pigs to make piggie pie.

When Mr. Carter mistakes the lovable,literal-minded Amelia Bedelia for the new teacher, class will never be the same again!

There's going to be a Pet Day at school--only the rule is No Dogs! Andthat's the only kind of pet Junie B. has! If Mother won't let her get a newpet, then Junie B. will have to take matters into her own hands. Maybe a jar ofants? Or a...

In Korea in the early 1800s, news from the countryside reached the king by means of signal fires. On one mountaintop after another, a fire was lit when all was well. If the king did not see a fire, that meant trouble, and he would sen...

Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable—their grandmother!

From the mind of children's book creator Dav Pilkey comes another tale of bunnies so dippy, so doofy, and so supremely DUMB, it will have you laughing all the way down the bunny trail. (Did we mention this book is actually about Chris...

The world's greatest detective' follows the clues that lead to the King of Pooka Pooka's missing prize elephant.

'Time for bed,' Mother Earth said. 'Not for a while,' said her wild child. 'A song, first. I need a song to play in my head before going to bed.' So Mother Earth gave her child a song.... But then this wild child ...

When Mary Ellen gets bored with her reading, Grandpa knows a hunt for a bee tree is just what she needs. Half the town joins the exciting chase, but it's not until everyone returns home that Mary Ellen makes a discovery of her own: So...

Illus. in full color. An apple pie is easy to make...if the market is open.But if the market is closed, the world becomes your grocery store. Thisdeliciously silly recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gatheringredien...

The longest dachshund in the world, Pretzel is admired by all and the winner of a blue ribbon at the dog show. Only Greta, the little dachshund across the street, doesn't care for long dogs. At least not until she gets into a jam out ...

Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom's team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly win? Just when everything se...

A is for author.... Dink writes to his favorite author, mystery writerWallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green Lawn. To Dink's amazement,Wallace says he'll come! But when the big day arrives, Wallace is nowhere to befound. The ...

B is for Bandit... The Green Lawn Savings Bank has been robbed! When aprivate detective comes to Dink's door looking for the kid who videotaped thecrime, Dink and his friends volunteer to find him. After all, there's a reward!But trac...

Z is for ZOMBIE . . .Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are excited to vacation in the Louisiana bayou. But the small village they visit has a scary problem. The villagers tell stories of voodoo and a giant zombie with silver hair who has been...