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The Hunter
Author: Jan Wahl / Artist: Tim Jessell
978-1-56846-297-4 $18.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 111/2" × 81/2" Color illustrations
Illustration above by Tim Jessell from The Hunter www.thecreativecompany.us CREATIVE EDITIONS 3
Sounds of the Forest Kate Riggs is a Minnesota-based editor and author of children’s and
young adult nonfiction books. In 2012, her book Dolphins was honored
Sounds of the Forest offers up a fun, foundational introduction to the at- as the winner of the Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award for
mospheric sounds of an African rainforest that are sure to fascinate every Transitional Nonfiction.
preschool learner—and zoo enthusiast. Active, rhythmical text evokes
the sounds of some animals common to that environment. Detailed Fiammetta Dogi is an Italian artist who specializes in children’s books.
Since receiving her education in graphic arts and illustration, she has
illustrations bring the words to life, encouraging young readers and
created work for clients worldwide, with her art appearing in numerous
listeners to mimic the sounds and actions of splashing, hooting, thudding,
books, magazines, and advertisements.
and more.
978-1-56846-318-6
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Interest level: Age 2 and up
Page count: 14
Trim size: 7" × 7"
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Pub date: April 2019
Heavy elephants thud.
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978-1-56846-319-3
$18.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up
Page count: 32
Trim size: 81/2" × 103/4"
Color illustrations
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Thor flashed wildly, and—BOOM!—
his thunderclaps shook the ground.
978-1-56846-341-4
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Interest level: Age 6 and up
Page count: 32
T he next day, I stopped in front of the angry crowd.
I was not afraid.
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Later, Mrs. Henry asked me what I said to them.
...
cause I was black. Only, he used another word.
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We Are Brothers
978-1-56846-334-6
$14.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up
Page count: 16
And then start down! Trim size: 8½" × 11"
Color illustrations
Pub date: April 2019
Colors of Nature This illustrated conceptual How Fast Can You Go? Six modes of trans-
board book encourages the association of certain portation are introduced by their relative speeds.
colors with the seasons. Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Nate Williams
Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Paolo Domeniconi 978-1-56846-253-0 $7.99 Board
978-1-56846-299-8 $8.99 Board Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14 Trim size: 7" × 7" Color illustrations
Trim size: 6¼" × 8" Color illustrations
Counting on Birds This illustrated con- Jibber-Jabber Engaging the senses, the ono-
ceptual board book uses the growth cycle of matopoeic sounds of 14 animals are introduced in
songbirds to teach the numbers 1 to 10. rhyming or alliterative pairs.
Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Jori van der Linde Author/Artist: Randall Enos
978-1-56846-300-1 $8.99 Board 978-1-56846-315-5 $8.99 Board
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14 Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14
Trim size: 6¼" × 8" Color illustrations Trim size: 6¼" × 8" Color illustrations
Crowds of Creatures Six family groups of . Let’s Go Outside Pairs of opposite words
Let’s Go Outside
Let’s Go Outside
different kinds of animals introduce the concept Kate Riggs Monique Felix
are used in context as readers follow a puppy
.
Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Fiammetta Dogi Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Monique Felix
Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Monique Felix
Designed by Rita Marshall
Published in 2018 by Creative Editions
P.O. Box 227, Mankato, MN 56002 USA
Creative Editions is an imprint of The Creative Company
All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book
may be reproduced by any means without the written
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14 Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14
a board book format to introduce young readers to opposite words
within the narrative framework of taking a dog for a walk.
Identifiers: LCCN TK / ISBN 978-1-56846-316-2
Subjects: TK
Classification: TK TK—dc23
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Trim size: 6¼" × 8" Color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-56846-316-2 U.S. $8.99
Dig It! Six construction machines are intro- On the Farm Six common barnyard animals
duced by their defining features or functions. are introduced by their sounds.
Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Laszlo Kubinyi Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Fiammetta Dogi
978-1-56846-237-0 $7.99 Board 978-1-56846-272-1 $7.99 Board
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14 Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14
Trim size: 7" × 7" Color illustrations Trim size: 7" × 7" Color illustrations
Dot, Stripe, Squiggle Nine sea creatures A Seed Needs Sun A plant’s life cycle is
bring the marine world to life in this innovative introduced by highlighting what it needs to grow
introduction to patterns and shapes. at each stage.
Author: Sarah Grace Tuttle Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Fiammetta Dogi
Artist: Miriam Nerlove 978-1-56846-254-7 $7.99 Board
978-1-56846-325-4 $8.99 Board Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 28 Trim size: 7" × 7" Color illustrations
Trim size: 6¼" × 8" Color illustrations
Shapes All Around Shapes All Around Geometric concepts Under the Sea Common directional words
Shapes All Around
Taste the Clouds This illustrated conceptual Wake up, Weather! This illustrated conceptu-
board book encourages imaginative exploration al board book encourages imaginative exploration
of the senses. of weather phenomena.
Author: Rita Marshall / Artist: Paolo Domeniconi Author: Rita Marshall / Artist: Monique Felix
978-1-56846-285-1 $8.99 Board 978-1-56846-286-8 $8.99 Board
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14 Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14
Trim size: 6¼" × 8" Color illustrations Trim size: 6¼" × 8" Color illustrations
That’s Creepy! Six creepy-crawlies are intro- What to Do with a Box This poetic tribute
duced by the animals’ common traits or behaviors. takes the literal shape of a box to bring an imagi-
Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Fiammetta Dogi native concept to life.
978-1-56846-236-3 $7.99 Board Author: Jane Yolen / Artist: Chris Sheban
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14 978-1-56846-320-9 $8.99 Board
Trim size: 7" × 7" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 12
Trim size: 8" × 8" Color illustrations
Time to Build Six common tools are introduced Wild Backyard Six backyard animals are
by their use in a construction project. introduced by what and how they eat in their
Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Laszlo Kubinyi microhabitats.
978-1-56846-271-4 $7.99 Board Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Fiammetta Dogi
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14 978-1-56846-287-5 $7.99 Board
Trim size: 7" × 7" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14
Trim size: 7" × 7" Color illustrations
To the Rescue! Six helpful vehicles are You and Me This warm, poetic work encapsu-
introduced by action words, encouraging lates the balancing act of giving attention to both
kinetic learning. older and younger siblings.
Author: Kate Riggs / Artist: Nate Williams Author: Rebecca Kai Dotlich
978-1-56846-288-2 $7.99 Board Artist: Susan Reagan
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14 978-1-56846-321-6 $8.99 Board
Trim size: 7" × 7" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 14
Trim size: 6¼" × 8" Color illustrations
classic titles
The Adventures of Pinocchio Will a misbe- And the Soldiers Sang Along the infamous
having wooden puppet amend his wicked ways in Western Front, enemies are drawn together by
time to become a real boy? song in the spirit of Christmas friendship.
Author: Carlo Collodi Author: J. Patrick Lewis / Artist: Gary Kelley
Artist: Roberto Innocenti 978-1-56846-220-2 (HC) $19.99 HC
978-1-56846-190-8 $35.00 HC 978-0-89812-975-5 (PB) $9.99 PB
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 192 Interest level: Age 9 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 8½" × 11¼" Color illustrations Trim size: 9" × 12" Color illustrations
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer An illu- Bobo’s Smile What’s a clown to do when
strated edition breathes new life into Mark Twain’s the circus shuts down and he loses the ability
most popular and widely read novel. to smile? Bobo goes on a quest to regain his
Author: Mark Twain / Artist: C. F. Payne happiness.
978-1-56846-268-4 $29.99 HC Author/Artist: Seymour Chwast
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 296 978-1-56846-221-9 $14.99 HC
Trim size: 7½" × 10½" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 3 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 8" × 8" Color illustrations
All the World’s a Stage This poetry collec- The Cat Who Invented Bebop A feline
tion explores Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages of Man” saxophonist sets out for jazzy New York, where
to celebrate the theater of human existence. he makes his mark as a cool cat to remember.
Compiler: Lee Bennett Hopkins Author/Artist: Marshall Arisman
Artist: Guy Billout 978-1-56846-152-6 $17.95 HC
978-1-56846-218-9 $19.99 HC Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 32
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 40 Trim size: 8½" × 11" Color illustrations
Trim size: 10½" × 9½" Color illustrations
16 CREATIVE EDITIONS www.thecreativecompany.us Above illustration by Paolo Domeniconi from Taste the Clouds
Creative Editions Classic Picture Books
Cheyenne Medicine Hat A mustang mare Doctor Dolittle American artist Seymour
leads a herd of wild horses on an adventurous Chwast reinterprets the 1920s tale for a 21st-
journey that unfolds into an uplifting story century audience.
of survival. Author/Artist: Seymour Chwast
Author: Brian Heinz / Artist: Gregory Manchess 978-1-56846-258-5 $18.99 HC
978-1-56846-181-6 $19.95 HC Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 32
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 32 Trim size: 9" × 12" Color illustrations
Trim size: 8¼" × 12¼" Color illustrations
Chicken Wants a Nap A fortunately- The Emily Sonnets Sonnets and biographi-
unfortunately tale of a barnyard chicken whose cal notes tell of the reclusive life and literary
search for a relaxing spot to nap is repeatedly creativity of 19th-century American poet Emily
thwarted––until the rain stops, and the worms Dickinson.
come out. Author: Jane Yolen / Artist: Gary Kelley
Author: Tracy Marchini / Artist: Monique Felix 978-1-56846-215-8 $19.99 HC
978-1-56846-308-7 $17.99 HC Interest level: Age 11 and up Page count: 40
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 24 Trim size: 8" × 11¼" Color illustrations
Trim size: 8" × 11" Color illustrations
A Christmas Carol Award-winning artist Erika’s Story A Jewish woman narrates how
Roberto Innocenti vividly renders the beloved her mother was able to spare her from the hor-
Christmas tale in this revised edition. rors of the Holocaust as an infant.
Author: Charles Dickens Author: Ruth Vander Zee
Artist: Roberto Innocenti Artist: Roberto Innocenti
978-1-56846-278-3 $29.99 HC 978-1-56846-176-2 (HC) $19.99 HC
Interest level: Age 10 and up Page count: 152 978-0-89812-891-8 (PB) $10.99 PB
Trim size: 83/8" × 12" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 24
Trim size: 10" × 9½" Color illustrations
Dark Fiddler An old gravedigger recounts to The Forever Flowers A waylaid grouse dis-
his young apprentice the tall but true tale of Ital- covers the unexpected joys of quietude—and the
ian violinist Nicolo Paganini. difficulty of decision-making.
Author: Aaron Frisch / Artist: Gary Kelley Author: Michael J. Rosen
978-1-56846-200-4 $17.95 HC Artist: Sonja Danowski
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 32 978-1-56846-273-8 $18.99 HC
Trim size: 9" × 12" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 85/8" × 11¾" Color illustrations
The Frog Who Wanted to See the Sea The Good Ship Crocodile A friendly
A timid frog’s journey becomes a modern fairy crocodile acts as a ferry to many stranded animal
tale in this reissued 2014 edition of the 2007 neighbors, and his good deeds are repaid in full.
original. Author: J. Patrick Lewis / Artist: Monique Felix
Author/Artist: Guy Billout 978-1-56846-238-7 $18.99 HC
978-1-56846-267-7 $16.99 HC Interest level: Age 5 and up Page count: 32
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32 Trim size: 9¾" × 9¾" Color illustrations
Trim size: 9¼" × 8¼" Color illustrations
Full Color No introduction to the colors of A Good Story In this modern parable that
the rainbow is quite like this one, here reissued encourages dreamers to keep on dreaming, an
from a 2008 original in a smaller format. acrobatic pig with a penchant for good stories
Author/Artist: Etienne Delessert discovers that he is more than an accountant.
978-1-56846-266-0 $15.99 HC Author/Artist: Zack Rock
Interest level: Age 2 and up Page count: 32 978-1-56846-280-6 $17.99 HC
Trim size: 7¼" × 9¾" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 10" × 9" Color illustrations
Fuzzy, Furry Hat A lonely bear provides The Great North Woods A celebration of
shelter for countless animals in his fuzzy, furry nature in verse and exquisitely detailed illustra-
hat as they all withstand a deluge and become tions, readers here experience a day from dawn
forever friends. through dusk in the Great North Woods.
Author/Artist: Etienne Delessert Author: Brian Heinz / Artist: Michael Rothman
978-1-56846-296-7 $18.99 HC 978-1-56846-275-2 $18.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32 Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 8½" × 11" Color illustrations Trim size: 10¾" × 9½" Color illustrations
The Girl in Red Depicting a city as a wilder- Harlem Hellfighters Black Americans from
ness, this modern take offers a twist on the old New York take both the fight and their music to
tale of an innocent girl in a red riding hood. the WWI battlefields of France.
Author: Aaron Frisch Author: J. Patrick Lewis / Artist: Gary Kelley
Artist: Roberto Innocenti 978-1-56846-246-2 $19.99 HC
978-1-56846-223-3 $19.99 HC Interest level: Age 10 and up Page count: 32
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 32 Trim size: 9" × 12" Color illustrations
Trim size: 10½" × 11½" Color illustrations
A Glass In this autobiographical story, readers Homer Henry Hudson’s Curio Museum
will learn of one seemingly unbreakable glass A mysterious adventurer travels the world for
and of the shatterproof love between a parent treasures to add to his unique collection.
and child. Author/Artist: Zack Rock
Author/Artist: Etienne Delessert 978-1-56846-260-8 $18.99 HC
978-1-56846-257-8 $18.99 HC Interest level: Age 10 and up Page count: 32
Interest level: Age 7 and up Page count: 32 Trim size: 10" × 10" Color illustrations
Trim size: 9" × 9" Color illustrations
The House In this gorgeously illustrated title, I Still Hate to Read! In this follow-up to the
a country house is rediscovered and reborn at the acclaimed I Hate to Read!, a classroom assignment
turn of the 20th century. unveils a boy’s secret love for books.
Author: J. Patrick Lewis Author: Rita Marshall / Artist: Etienne Delessert
Artist: Roberto Innocenti 978-1-56846-174-8 $19.95 HC
978-1-56846-201-1 $19.95 HC Interest level: Age 4 and up Page count: 32
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 64 Trim size: 8½" × 12" Color illustrations
Trim size: 9" × 12½" Color illustrations
How to Draw with Your Funny Bone If— Rudyard Kipling’s encouraging sentiments
This artistic workbook encourages readers that inspired a nation are tenderly portrayed in
to experiment with their own types of visual this illustrated edition of the famous poem.
expression. Author: Rudyard Kipling
Author/Artist: Elwood H. Smith Artist: Giovanni Manna
978-1-56846-243-1 $17.99 HC 978-1-56846-259-2 $19.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 40 Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 8¾" × 10½" Color illustrations Trim size: 7¼" × 10" Color illustrations
The Hunter In this story of quiet reverence I’m Not a Pig in Underpants Follow a
for nature, a hunter sets out early one morn- series of delightful, poetic clues as a mysterious
ing; when he comes across the deer he has been animal narrator prompts readers to figure out
seeking, he does something unexpected. its identity.
Author: Jan Wahl / Artist: Tim Jessell Author/Artist: Elwood H. Smith
978-1-56846-297-4 $18.99 HC 978-1-56846-229-5 $18.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32 Interest level: Age 5 and up Page count: 40
Trim size: 11½" × 8½" Color illustrations Trim size: 8½" × 10½" Color illustrations
I Hate to Read! Victor Dickens hates to The Last Resort An artist’s quest to recover
read, and nothing can change his mind until he his imagination leads him to a remote seaside
discovers the hidden lives of printed words. hotel visited by some rather remarkable guests.
Author: Rita Marshall / Artist: Etienne Delessert Author: J. Patrick Lewis
978-1-56846-232-5 $16.99 HC Artist: Roberto Innocenti
Interest level: Age 5 and up Page count: 32 978-1-56846-172-4 $24.99 HC
Trim size: 7¼" × 9¾" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 48
Trim size: 85/8" × 117/8" Color illustrations
I Met a Dinosaur After a visit to the Museum Lineup for Yesterday Famous poet Ogden
of Natural History, a young girl begins to see the Nash pays entertaining tribute to the greatest
creatures everywhere. baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s.
Author: Jan Wahl / Artist: Chris Sheban Author: Ogden Nash / Artist: C. F. Payne
978-1-56846-233-2 $17.99 HC 978-1-56846-212-7 $24.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32 Interest level: Age 9 and up Page count: 56
Trim size: 9" × 9" Color illustrations Trim size: 10¾" × 9½" Color illustrations
Lineup for Yesterday Baseball Cards The Million Stories of Marco Polo A
Nash’s classic odes to baseball greats of yore scribe recounts to his young neighbor adventur-
are presented in a boxed set of full-color com- ous tales of the legendary explorer Marco Polo.
memorative cards. Author: Michael J. Rosen
Author: Ogden Nash / Artist: C. F. Payne Artist: Maria Cristina Pritelli
978-1-56846-249-3 $12.99 978-1-56846-290-5 $18.99 HC
Interest level: Age 4 and up Color illustrations Interest level: Age 10 and up Page count: 32
Size: 6" × 4¼" × 1" Trim size: 10¾" × 9¾" Color illustrations
The Lonely Pine The Lonely Pine recounts Mocha Dick In this spirited sea lore, a
a calendar year in the Arctic life of the world’s 19th-century sperm whale becomes infamous for
northernmost tree. retaliating against those who try to capture him.
Author: Aaron Frisch / Artist: Etienne Delessert Author: Brian Heinz / Artist: Randall Enos
978-1-56846-214-1 $17.99 HC 978-1-56846-242-4 $18.99 HC
Interest level: Age 9 and up Page count: 32 Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 11" × 7¾" Color illustrations Trim size: 85/8" × 12" Color illustrations
The Long Tall Journey The story of a giraffe Moon Theater Every night, the rising moon
that journeyed from Africa to France in the 19th takes center stage, surrounded by vigilant owls,
century, told by the animal. howling dogs, and other supporting characters.
Author: Jan Wahl / Artist: Laurent Gapaillard Author/Artist: Etienne Delessert
978-1-56846-230-1 $18.99 HC 978-1-56846-208-0 $17.95 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 40 Interest level: Age 4 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 9" × 12" Color illustrations Trim size: 8½" × 11" Color illustrations
Make the Earth Your Companion As Mouse Books In these wordless stories, mice
picturesque illustrations imbue the poetically transform books into canvases for their own mini
inspired images with mysticism, readers are adventures.
reminded to treat the world around us with the Author/Artist: Monique Felix
respect it deserves and the care it needs. Interest level: Age 3 and up $12.99 HC each
Author: J. Patrick Lewis Trim size: 6¾" × 6¾" Page count: 32
Artists: Anna & Elena Balbusso Color illustrations
978-1-56846-269-1 $18.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32 The Alphabet 978-1-56846-226-4
Trim size: 8¾" × 12" Color illustrations The Boat 978-1-56846-252-3
The Colors 978-1-56846-234-9
The Numbers 978-1-56846-235-6
Michelangelo’s World Combining gorgeous
The Opposites 978-1-56846-251-6
photographs with sonnets by poet J. Patrick
The Valentine 978-1-56846-247-9
Lewis, this picture book celebrates the Renais-
The Wind 978-1-56846-227-1
sance master.
Author: J. Patrick Lewis
978-1-56846-167-0 $17.95 HC
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 40
Trim size: 9" × 11" Color photographs
and artwork
20 CREATIVE EDITIONS www.thecreativecompany.us Spot illustration by Monique Felix from Mouse Books: The Colors
Creative Editions Classic Picture Books
My Clementine A captain narrates the story A Night on the Range In this story of
of his beloved ship’s extraordinary 50-year life, Western dreaming, a wide-eyed cowpoke and his
from her exotic travels to her eventual resting faithful dog leave indoor comforts behind.
place at the bottom of the sea. Author: Aaron Frisch / Artist: Chris Sheban
Author/Artist: Roberto Innocenti 978-1-56846-205-9 (HC) $19.99 HC
978-1-56846-323-0 $18.99 HC 978-0-89812-829-1 (PB) $7.99 PB
Interest level: Age 10 and up Page count: 40 Interest level: Age 4 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 9" × 11" Color illustrations Trim size: 10¾" × 9½" Color illustrations
The Navajo Code Talkers The story of A Number of Animals As a little chick
how bilingual Navajo in the Marine Corps searches for its mother among barnyard animals,
helped the Allies win World War II by devising it involves readers in a simple counting exercise.
the ultimate code. Author: Kate Green
Author: J. Patrick Lewis / Artist: Gary Kelley Artist: Christopher Wormell
978-1-56846-295-0 $18.99 HC 978-1-56846-222-6 $15.99 HC
Interest level: Age 10 and up Page count: 32 Interest level: Age 3 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 9" × 12" Color illustrations Trim size: 9" × 9" Color illustrations
Next Year Through the drought and dust Nutcracker This unabridged and reissued
storms that ravage once-rich farmland during the edition of Hoffmann’s classic tells of the dreaded
Dust Bowl, a young boy and his family cling to Mouse King, the brave Nutcracker, and a com-
the hope that “next year” will be better. passionate girl.
Author: Ruth Vander Zee / Artist: Gary Kelley Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
978-1-56846-282-0 $18.99 HC Artist: Roberto Innocenti
Interest level: Age 9 and up Page count: 32 978-1-56846-313-1 $29.99 HC
Trim size: 91/2" × 91/2" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 136
Trim size: 91/2" × 11" Color illustrations
Night Circus One fall evening, a man is The One and Only 1, 2, 3 Book A num-
entranced by a strange circus processing along a ber 1 with a high opinion of itself must compete
road near his house. for attention as the pages brim with numeric
Author/Artist: Etienne Delessert activity.
978-1-56846-277-6 $19.99 HC Author/Artist: R. O. Blechman
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32 978-1-56846-245-5 $15.99 HC
Trim size: 10½" × 11½" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 4 and up Page count: 24
Trim size: 115/8" × 9" Color illustrations
Phrases of the Moon Enhanced by luminous Sailing the Unknown Travel the uncharted
illustrations, this musical ode to the moon glows world of the late 1700s with Captain Cook.
with magic and mystery. Author: Michael J. Rosen
Author: J. Patrick Lewis Artist: Maria Cristina Pritelli
Artist: Jori van der Linde 978-1-56846-216-5 (HC) $19.99 HC
978-1-56846-311-7 $18.99 HC 978-0-89812-976-2 (PB) $12.00 PB
Interest level: Age 10 and up Page count: 32 Interest level: Age 9 and up Page count: 40
Trim size: 6½" × 12" Color illustrations Trim size: 11½" × 85/8" Color illustrations
Pirates at the Plate Teams of pirates and Seaside Lullaby The cycle of sleep is not
cowboys inject rowdy adventure into America’s unlike the seasons by the sea in this gorgeously
pastime in this exquisitely illustrated story. illustrated and dreamy bedtime lullaby.
Author: Aaron Frisch / Artist: Mark Summers Author/Artist: Maria Cristina Pritelli
978-1-56846-210-3 $17.99 HC 978-1-56846-328-5 $17.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32 Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 8½" × 11¼" Color illustrations Trim size: 10" × 10" Color illustrations
The Riddle Horse In this gentle riddle of a Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers Fourteen
tale, a horse recounts its adventures and riders of Marc Chagall’s works are here vividly repro-
throughout the long years of its life. duced and accompanied by biographical poems.
Author/Artist: Mark Summers Authors: J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen
978-1-56846-291-2 $18.99 HC 978-1-56846-211-0 (HC) $18.99 HC
Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 24 978-0-89812-974-8 (PB) $12.00 PB
Trim size: 9" × 9" Color illustrations Interest level: Age 11 and up Page count: 40
Trim size: 8" × 11¼" Reproductions
The Riverbank Illustrations accompanying Sing a Season Song The cyclical nature
the final paragraph of On the Origin of Species of the seasons takes center stage in this poetic
commemorate the 150th anniversary of the tribute to the four periods of the year.
book’s publication. Author: Jane Yolen / Artist: Lisel Jane Ashlock
Author: Charles Darwin / Artist: Fabian Negrin 978-1-56846-255-4 $19.99 HC
978-1-56846-207-3 $17.95 HC Interest level: Age 6 and up Page count: 32
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 32 Trim size: 8¼" × 12" Color illustrations
Trim size: 87/8" × 105/8" Color illustrations
Rose Blanche One day, a young German girl Spartacus the Spider When a little spider
follows a truck into the woods, where she discov- finally devises a way to spin a mighty web, prey is
ers a terrible secret. his for the catching, but what may be the cost?
Author: Christophe Gallaz Author/Artist: Etienne Delessert
Artist: Roberto Innocenti 978-1-56846-213-4 $17.95 HC
978-1-56846-189-2 (HC) $19.99 HC Interest level: Age 4 and up Page count: 32
978-0-89812-385-2 (PB) $10.99 PB Trim size: 8¾" × 12" Color illustrations
Interest level: Age 7 and up Page count: 32
Trim size: 8¼" × 11" Color illustrations
The Stolen Smile In this reissued edition, The Velveteen Rabbit This reissued classic
readers travel back to 1911 Paris, where the Mona returns readers to the magical world of toys.
Lisa has gone missing. Author: Margery Williams Bianco
Author: J. Patrick Lewis / Artist: Gary Kelley Artist: Monique Felix
978-1-56846-281-3 $16.99 HC 978-0-89812-831-4 $8.99 PB
Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 40 Interest level: Age 8 and up Page count: 40
Trim size: 8" × 9¾" Color illustrations Trim size: 7¾" × 11³⁄8" Color illustrations
Storytime Clock This wall clock serves as a We Are Brothers In this moving coming-of-
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Tuba Lessons A boy venturing through a Where Do I End and You Begin? This
forest on his way to a tuba lesson finds himself rhythmic poem employs a thought-provoking
giving a concert to an unexpected audience. refrain to introduce the concept of intercon-
Author: T. C. Bartlett / Artist: Monique Felix nectedness.
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The Universe Is a Tree This international A Year in the Woods Excerpts from Thoreau’s
anthology reveals that a tree’s roots not only 1854 work Walden, which still serves as a guide
reach deep into the earth, but its branches also to living fully and deliberately, are here accompa-
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