"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Easter. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

"All of the animals pile on board and then they tumble out to get the Bunny Bus gussied up for the big Easter Parade"--

"Discover Borneo's Gomantong Cave, where literally millions of bats, cockroaches, spiders, and rats coexist--in pitch darkness. Learn about mythical creatures like the Mongolian Death Worm--and scarily real ones like killer bees, which were accidentally created by scientists in the 1950s. Visit New Orleans' Beauregard-Keyes house, where Civil War soldiers are said to still clash in the front hall. Plus ghost stories from around the world, a cross-cultural...

The very hungry caterpillar celebrates some of the things it's thankful for.

Kate Douglas Wiggin was an important reformer of children's education at the turn of the century. During a period when children's use in society was often little more than for cheap labor, Kate Douglas Wiggin was dedicated to the betterment of youth. She was the first person to found a free kindergarten school in San Francisco in 1878. Her passion for children's rights carried over to her successful career as an author of children's books. In her...

It can be difficult for young people to understand that other kids their age often live vastly different lives than they do. Even when it comes to seemingly simple things, like celebrating holidays, many people do things quite differently. Give your readers a fun trip around the world looking at different celebrations and holidays. They'll see how holidays they're familiar with are celebrated differently than they're used to. Holidays they've never...

Halloween es una época emocionante del año. La gente adorna sus casas y jardines con calabazas y figuras aterradoras. En la noche de Halloween, algunos niños se disfrazan y salen a pedir dulces. Otras personas organizan una fiesta de Halloween. Este divertido libro muestra a los niños algunas tradiciones estadounidenses de Halloween a través de llamativas ilustraciones. El lenguaje apropiado para la edad hace que este libro sea una lectura fácil...

Christmas is an important Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. Readers will learn that people celebrate it by going to Mass, decorating a Christmas tree, giving gifts, and spending time with family and friends. Complete with simple text and colorful photographs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and...

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday known as the "festival of lights." Read about this holiday as you add all the latkes and doughnuts there are to eat! This nonfiction math book combines math and reading skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject-area content. The dynamic images, detailed sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning addition easy and fun. Text features include a table of contents, a glossary,...

She stooped once more to pick up something which had fallen out when the cover was jarred open. It was a pink papier-mâché angel, such as are often hung from the top of Christmas trees as a crowning symbol. Norah stood holding it between thumb and finger, staring amazedly. Who would think to find such a bit of frivolity in the house of Miss Terry! The Christmas Angel is a stirring reminder of what really matters at Christmas and throughout the year....