Author: Helen Ketteman
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807573035
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
2013 IRA-CBC Children's Choices In this Tex-Mex retelling of The Little Gingerbread Man, Senorita Gordita--a little corn cake-- escapes from the frying pan and leads a merry chase. She runs through the desert boasting, "You'll never catch me!" while fleeing from a spider, a rattler, and other hungry creatures "with a flip, and a skip, and a zip-zoom-zip." A fast-paced and wildly illustrated twist on an old favorite.
Senorita Gordita
Author: Helen Ketteman
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807573035
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
2013 IRA-CBC Children's Choices In this Tex-Mex retelling of The Little Gingerbread Man, Senorita Gordita--a little corn cake-- escapes from the frying pan and leads a merry chase. She runs through the desert boasting, "You'll never catch me!" while fleeing from a spider, a rattler, and other hungry creatures "with a flip, and a skip, and a zip-zoom-zip." A fast-paced and wildly illustrated twist on an old favorite.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807573035
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
2013 IRA-CBC Children's Choices In this Tex-Mex retelling of The Little Gingerbread Man, Senorita Gordita--a little corn cake-- escapes from the frying pan and leads a merry chase. She runs through the desert boasting, "You'll never catch me!" while fleeing from a spider, a rattler, and other hungry creatures "with a flip, and a skip, and a zip-zoom-zip." A fast-paced and wildly illustrated twist on an old favorite.
The Princess and the Petri Dish
Author: Sue Fliess
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807566454
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Pippa isn't your usual princess. She prefers petri dishes to perfecting her curtseying. And when she realizes that she doesn't like peas, she gets a bright idea that consumes her and almost the whole kingdom.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807566454
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Pippa isn't your usual princess. She prefers petri dishes to perfecting her curtseying. And when she realizes that she doesn't like peas, she gets a bright idea that consumes her and almost the whole kingdom.
Armadilly Chili
Author: Helen Ketteman
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807592323
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
2005-2006 North Carolina Children's Book Award Master List 2007 Arizona Young Reader Award Picture Book Master List 2005 Winner, Storytelling World Award Children's Books Top Picks, Southwest Books of the Year 2004 2005 Texas Library Association's 2 x 2 Reading List A blue norther's a-blowing', and Miss Billie Armadilly is hankering to make a pot of chili! Only she needs to fix it all by herself because Tex the tarantula, Mackie the bluebird, and Taffy the horned toad are too busy to lend a hand. Well, she'll eat it all by herself, too! But then the smell of chili cooking in the cold night brings her friends one by one back to Miss Billie's door. What's a lady armadillo to do?
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807592323
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
2005-2006 North Carolina Children's Book Award Master List 2007 Arizona Young Reader Award Picture Book Master List 2005 Winner, Storytelling World Award Children's Books Top Picks, Southwest Books of the Year 2004 2005 Texas Library Association's 2 x 2 Reading List A blue norther's a-blowing', and Miss Billie Armadilly is hankering to make a pot of chili! Only she needs to fix it all by herself because Tex the tarantula, Mackie the bluebird, and Taffy the horned toad are too busy to lend a hand. Well, she'll eat it all by herself, too! But then the smell of chili cooking in the cold night brings her friends one by one back to Miss Billie's door. What's a lady armadillo to do?
There Once Was a Cowpoke Who Swallowed an Ant
Author: Helen Ketteman
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807578517
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
"There once was a cowpoke who swallowed an ant— A fiery thing with a Texas-sized sting. The cowpoke panted, and his voice got higher. 'Yippie-ti-yay! My stomach's on fire!!'" In this Texas-styled reworking of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, a cowboy downs a variety of native Southwest creatures—a spider, a roadrunner, a lizard, an armadillo, a snake, a boar, and more—all to catch that ant! Another hilarious and vividly illustrated tale from the team behind Senorita Gordita and The Three Little Gators.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807578517
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
"There once was a cowpoke who swallowed an ant— A fiery thing with a Texas-sized sting. The cowpoke panted, and his voice got higher. 'Yippie-ti-yay! My stomach's on fire!!'" In this Texas-styled reworking of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, a cowboy downs a variety of native Southwest creatures—a spider, a roadrunner, a lizard, an armadillo, a snake, a boar, and more—all to catch that ant! Another hilarious and vividly illustrated tale from the team behind Senorita Gordita and The Three Little Gators.
Leaf Man
Author: Patricia J. Miranda
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807544159
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A richly illustrated fable of hope, perseverance, and renewal. While wandering through a field of stumps that was once a forest, a boy collects twigs and sticks and leaves that remain and decides to create something new. He makes a figure—a leaf man—who inspires him to dream and invent, to plant the seed for a better world. Based on the ancient folklore of the "green man" as a symbol of renewal, lyrical text and immersive visual storytelling fills this uplifting picture book with optimism for the future.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807544159
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A richly illustrated fable of hope, perseverance, and renewal. While wandering through a field of stumps that was once a forest, a boy collects twigs and sticks and leaves that remain and decides to create something new. He makes a figure—a leaf man—who inspires him to dream and invent, to plant the seed for a better world. Based on the ancient folklore of the "green man" as a symbol of renewal, lyrical text and immersive visual storytelling fills this uplifting picture book with optimism for the future.
Pluto Gets the Call
Author: Adam Rex
Publisher: Beach Lane Books
ISBN: 1534414533
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Pluto gets a call from Earth telling him he isn’t a planet anymore, so he sets out on a journey through the solar system to find out why in this funny and fact-filled romp that’s perfect for fans of The Scrambled States of America. Pluto loves being a planet. That is, until the day he gets a call from some Earth scientists telling him he isn’t a planet anymore! You probably wanted to meet a real planet, huh? So, Pluto takes the reader on a hilarious and informative journey through the solar system to introduce the other planets and commiserate about his situation along the way. Younger readers will be so busy laughing over Pluto’s interactions with the other planets, asteroids, moons, and even the sun, they won’t even realize just how much they’re learning about our solar system!
Publisher: Beach Lane Books
ISBN: 1534414533
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Pluto gets a call from Earth telling him he isn’t a planet anymore, so he sets out on a journey through the solar system to find out why in this funny and fact-filled romp that’s perfect for fans of The Scrambled States of America. Pluto loves being a planet. That is, until the day he gets a call from some Earth scientists telling him he isn’t a planet anymore! You probably wanted to meet a real planet, huh? So, Pluto takes the reader on a hilarious and informative journey through the solar system to introduce the other planets and commiserate about his situation along the way. Younger readers will be so busy laughing over Pluto’s interactions with the other planets, asteroids, moons, and even the sun, they won’t even realize just how much they’re learning about our solar system!
Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do?
Author: Linda Walvoord Girard
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 080759363X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Explains how to deal with strangers in public places, on the telephone, and in cars, emphasizing situations in which the best thing to do is run away or talk to another adult.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 080759363X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Explains how to deal with strangers in public places, on the telephone, and in cars, emphasizing situations in which the best thing to do is run away or talk to another adult.
The Three Little Gators
Author: Helen Ketteman
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807593281
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Wanda Gag Honor Book 2010 2011 Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award nominee A delightfull retelling of the three little pigs story. Three little gators strike out on their own in an east Texas swamp. Their mother warns them to build strong houses that can protect them from Big-bottomed Boar, who likes to eat tasty, tender gators for his snack. Soon, First Gator builds himself a nice house out of rocks. Second Gator reckons rocks are too much work, so he builds his house with sticks. And Third Gator's house of sand is the easiest one to build! But soon Big-bottomed Boar shows up. With a bump, bump, bump of the fierce boar's rump, he knocks over Third Gator's house of sand. It doesn't take long for that rump to bump Second Gator's house of sticks. But he can't knock over Third Gator's house of stones, so he tries another way in - through the chimney! Guess what happens to the Boar's rump after that?!
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807593281
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Wanda Gag Honor Book 2010 2011 Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award nominee A delightfull retelling of the three little pigs story. Three little gators strike out on their own in an east Texas swamp. Their mother warns them to build strong houses that can protect them from Big-bottomed Boar, who likes to eat tasty, tender gators for his snack. Soon, First Gator builds himself a nice house out of rocks. Second Gator reckons rocks are too much work, so he builds his house with sticks. And Third Gator's house of sand is the easiest one to build! But soon Big-bottomed Boar shows up. With a bump, bump, bump of the fierce boar's rump, he knocks over Third Gator's house of sand. It doesn't take long for that rump to bump Second Gator's house of sticks. But he can't knock over Third Gator's house of stones, so he tries another way in - through the chimney! Guess what happens to the Boar's rump after that?!
Gaston
Author: Kelly DiPucchio
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442451033
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A bulldog and a poodle learn that family is about love, not appearances in this adorable doggy tale from New York Times bestselling author Kelly DiPucchio and illustrator Christian Robinson. This is the story of four puppies: Fi-Fi, Foo-Foo, Ooh-La-La, and Gaston. Gaston works the hardest at his lessons on how to be a proper pooch. He sips—never slobbers! He yips—never yaps! And he walks with grace—never races! Gaston fits right in with his poodle sisters. But a chance encounter with a bulldog family in the park—Rocky, Ricky, Bruno, and Antoinette—reveals there’s been a mix-up, and so Gaston and Antoinette switch places. The new families look right…but they don’t feel right. Can these puppies follow their noses—and their hearts—to find where they belong?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442451033
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A bulldog and a poodle learn that family is about love, not appearances in this adorable doggy tale from New York Times bestselling author Kelly DiPucchio and illustrator Christian Robinson. This is the story of four puppies: Fi-Fi, Foo-Foo, Ooh-La-La, and Gaston. Gaston works the hardest at his lessons on how to be a proper pooch. He sips—never slobbers! He yips—never yaps! And he walks with grace—never races! Gaston fits right in with his poodle sisters. But a chance encounter with a bulldog family in the park—Rocky, Ricky, Bruno, and Antoinette—reveals there’s been a mix-up, and so Gaston and Antoinette switch places. The new families look right…but they don’t feel right. Can these puppies follow their noses—and their hearts—to find where they belong?
Young Zeus
Author: G. Brian Karas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
With the help of six monsters, five gods, an enchanted she-goat, and his mother, young Zeus becomes the god of gods, master of lightning, and ruler over all.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
With the help of six monsters, five gods, an enchanted she-goat, and his mother, young Zeus becomes the god of gods, master of lightning, and ruler over all.