A cozy bed, a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing—WAIT! There's a surprise in store, and little ones will want to discover it over and over again. So pull on your sleeping cap and snuggle in for a timeless cumulative tale that's truly like no other. Don and Audrey Wood's beloved picture book has sold more than one and a half million copies.

• A paperback edition of the classic cumulative tale that's perfect for bedtime, naptime...anytime
• On a cozy bed lie a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, and a tiny slumbering mouse
• But then an unexpected visitor arrives to interrupt this rainy afternoon at the napping house . . . where no one now is sleeping
• Big Book Series
• By Audrey Wood and Don Wood
• 32 pages

Life in the United States is always changing. This nonfiction book explores how people's lives have changed over time in the US and how they will continue to change.

• Fact- and photo-filled text for young readers supports social studies curriculum
• After-reading activity helps reader further engage with book content
• Includes photo glossary and index

We are all part of one world. This nonfiction book introduces life around the globe while pointing out things we all have in common.

• Fact- and photo-filled text for young readers supports social studies curriculum
• After-reading activity helps reader further engage with book content
• Includes photo glossary and index

Grace Lee Boggs was a Chinese American woman who went from earning a PhD in philosophy to becoming an activist in the black power movement in Detroit. She used ideas about revolution to inspire people to create a new world and imagine a new way of living. Learn about Grace Lee Bogg's life and accomplishments in this nonfiction biography, part of the Leaders Like Us series. Featuring 24 pages with vibrant illustrations, this children's book also includes a timeline, post-reading questions, and an interactive activity to help develop reading comprehension skills.

• Engaging biography that tells the inspiring life story of an Asian American leader
• Vivid illustrations
• Includes a time line, after-reading questions, and an activity to encourage further learning

This nonfiction book introduces the relationship between people and the places we live. It discusses the impact we have on the earth and the impact the earth has on us.

• Fact- and photo-filled text for young readers supports social studies curriculum
• After-reading activity helps reader further engage with book content
• Includes photo glossary and index

A Black woman had never been a justice for the United States Supreme Court until April 7, 2022 when Ketanji Brown Jackson made history. This lifetime appointment has only been held by two other African Americans before her. Learn about Ketanji Brown Jackson's life, experience, and accomplishments in this nonfiction biography, part of the Leaders Like Us series. Featuring 24 pages with vibrant illustrations, this children's book also includes a timeline, post-reading questions, and an interactive activity to help develop reading comprehension skills.

• Engaging biography that tells the inspiring life story of a Black leader
• Vivid illustrations
• Includes a time line, after-reading questions, and an activity to encourage further learning

Philip Vera Cruz came to the United States from the Philippines in search of an education. Instead, he became a farmworker to survive. This turn of events led Philip and other Filipino farmworkers, the manongs, to start the historic strike in Delano, California that led to a grape boycott and the birth of the infamous United Farm Workers union. Learn about Philip Vera Cruz's life and accomplishments in this nonfiction biography, part of the Leaders Like Us series. Featuring 24 pages with vibrant illustrations, this children's book also includes a timeline, post-reading questions, and an interactive activity to help develop reading comprehension skills.

• Engaging biography that tells the inspiring life story of an Asian American leader
• Vivid illustrations
• Includes a time line, after-reading questions, and an activity to encourage further learning

It's July 1941 in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.

Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe steps forward.

Let me take this man's place, he says, thereby volunteering to die in the place of a stranger who had just been condemned to death by his Nazi captors.

By means of this singular deed, Fr. Kolbe laid down his life not for his friends — as some might do — but for a complete stranger.

Those who know little of Fr. Kolbe may dismiss this as an impulsive act, soon regretted. On the contrary — and as these moving pages show — his voluntary sacrifice of his life was, in fact, the crowning achievement of nearly forty years of Christian love, devotion, and, yes, even martyrdom that he had freely and deliberately agreed to accept when he was only twelve years old.

In the decades leading up to his generous self-sacrifice in Auschwitz, Fr. Kolbe became a monk; earned a doctorate in Rome; taught seminarians in college; established what soon became a thriving religious order (the Militia Immaculate); founded a popular religious magazine, a monastery (where, before his arrest, he hid thousands of Jews from the Nazis), a religious radio station, and a wartime hospital; and even created and served as publisher of the largest religious newspaper in Europe, whose many issues opposed Nazi evil and were circulated to readers throughout the Continent. Not satisfied with all that, Fr. Kolbe traveled with a few companions to Nagasaki, where he set up a monastery to serve the Japanese people.

All that in a brief life of forty-seven years! A rich, holy life told in vivid images and exciting details in this page-turner of a biography.

• By: Jean-Francois Vivier
• Pages: 52
• Format: Paperback

Dance a jig with a silly pig. Play leapfrog with a silly dog. And that's just the beginning of all the fun! Come along and join Silly Sally and her outrageous friends as they parade into town in a most unusual way. Exploding with whimsy, humor, and zest. . . . Be prepared to read this one a thousand times!--Booklist (starred review). 30 pages.

• Come along and join Silly Sally and her outrageous friends as they parade into town in a most unusual way
• Develops reading skills
• 30 pages

People have to live together and get along with each other. This nonfiction book explores how citizens and the government work to accomplish this.

• Fact- and photo-filled text for young readers supports social studies curriculum
• After-reading activity helps reader further engage with book content
• Includes photo glossary and index