From Stingaling the scorpion to Crocky-Wock the crocodile, Dahl's animals are nothing short of ridiculous. A clever pig with an unmentionable plan to save his own bacon and an anteater with an unusually large appetite are among the characters created by Dahl in these timeless rhymes. This new, larger edition is perfect for reading aloud and makes Quentin Blake's celebrated illustrations even more enjoyable. "Will elicit a loud 'Yuck.' In other words, children will love them." (Children's Book Review Service)

    A secret about how nightmares are made. Welcome to the Nightmare Factory. When Andrew Lake and his twin sister Poppy are stolen from their dreams, they find themselves trapped in a strange realm parallel to our own.

    

    But to Sylvia, a sensitive and imaginative girl of six-going-on-seven, it is a very real and very special experience.As author Isabel Wyatt says, Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book is "for everyone who has ever been seven years old, or is, or soon will be."From the very first page, you and your children will be enthralled by her vivid imagery and tales of mystery, magic, and mythical creatures like snow birds, fairy princesses, witches, gnomes, and even The Dragon.For that great majority of us concerned with the human condition, this special book also has a message. Woven throughout each story, like a silken fairy's wings, is the profound, humanistic Waldorf School philosophy which stresses our kinship with nature, our inherent creativity, our higher levels of consciousness, and our need to take things one at a time.So come! Follow along with Sylvia through her adventures and share the experience of her first lost tooth. Who could forget when it is celebrated with gifts from three fairies.

    . . . The simple words grab your heart."— BOOKLISTIt’s a good thing nine-year-old Isabelle is learning to write letters at school, because she has a lot to write to Papa about after he dies. Her sisters have boyfriends, little Ida hardly remembers Papa, and Ian is mad to be left with a house full of females. As for Mama, she’s tired with a capital T — and what’s worse, she’s sending Isabelle to live with her aunt and uncle. Now who will stop little Ida from calling Mama’s boss "Papa"? Set during World War II, this novel-in-letters follows a young girl learning to cope with the loss of her father — with a loyal heart, an independent attitude, and an unforgettable way with words.

    Clair is a ten-year-old girl living in upstate New York. She has grown up playing ice hockey wit her three older brothers on the pond behind their house. Mia's got the skills and the scrappiness it takes to be a star hockey player, but she's tired of skating in her brothers' shadows and has decided to follow her heart and pursue figure skating instead. Does she have what it takes to grow and compete as a figure skaters?When a new coach arrives, Mia finds herself gently pushed by the coach at the same time that she's pulled by her brothers. Can she stay true to her heart and follow her own path? Can she hold her own in a world of competitive skating?

    She must leave her city life of girlfriends, dancing lessons, school and hairdressers to live in a ramshackle house, go to a school with only boys in her class and play rugby. What does the country life have to offer a girl like her?

    Unfortunately, the maiden voyage, which should be an easy cruise around the ocean for the young inventor and her three friends, quickly turns into an unexpected adventure. With events of mythological proportions happening all around her, Pudding soon realizes that her newest invention may land her in the history books for an entirely different reason.Show More Show Less

    Jack and Annie quest to save Camelot. Beleaguered King Arthur learns that children and imagination really can make a difference.

    Following the success of Santa's Twin, Koontz presents a richly imaginative book of poems with fanciful black-and-white drawings that take readers on a romp through the twists and turns of the imagination.

    She has to; it will take a miracle to keep her warring parents together. This summer they are at a Marriage Counselling camp, leaving Bailey and her little brother Kevin with their estranged grandmother in the island town of Felicity Bay. There, an eccentric deposed minister makes a prophecy that a stranger from the sea will change everything. When Bailey discovers a mermaid-shaped piece of driftwood, she begins to believe that the mermaid is this stranger from the sea. Then, when a dolphin becomes stranded on the beach, Bailey forgets her own troubles and rouses the reluctant locals into action. Written in light and lyrical free verse, Shari Green's warm and wistful novel brings Bailey face to face with both hard and beautiful truths about growing up and growing into her own ability to shape the world.

    She heads for the endless marshes, where she's caught by an old healer-woman who makes Peat her apprentice and teaches her the skill of storytelling.But a story can be a dangerous thing. It can take you out of one world and leave you stranded in another — and Peat finds herself trapped in an eerie place beyond the Silver River where time stands still. Her only friends are a 900-year-old boy and his ghost hound, plus a small and slippery sleek — a cunning creature that might sink his teeth into your leg one minute, and save your life the next.

    Everyone thinks Varaminta is fabulous. Everyone, that is, except Lulu. She knows that her stepmother-to-be, not to mention her awful son Torquil, is cruel, deceitful, and just using her father. But how can she make her dad see Varaminta and Torquil for who they really are?When a magical recipe book called THE APPLE STAR finds its way into Lulu's hands, she finds that some very unusual ingredients and some help from her friends just might do the trick.

    It was not until Robin's father found a permanent job at the McCurdy ranch, after three years as a migrant worker, that Robin had a place to wander to. As time went by the Velvet Room became more and more of a haven for her — a place to read and dream, a place to bury one's fears and doubts, a place to count on. The Velvet Room, first published in 1965, was a Junior Library Guild selection, and part of Scholastic Books' Arrow Book Club.

    Using objects in her bedroom as inspiration, Barbie weaves together a fascinating tale about Princesses Kelly and Stacie and an animal-filled forest adventure.