Move over, generic 100 first word books! Get babies and toddlers talking all day long with a colorful board book of first words and phrases. This engaging large-format board book encourages toddlers' language learning through the repetition of simple words and phrases for everyday objects and activities.

Take a trip around the world by following nine children through their daily routines. Under speech and language therapist Claire Laties Davis's sure hand, dressing, mealtime, playtime, bath time and more become opportunities for little ones to learn new words and phrases. Each illustrated spread also includes a search-and-find within every scene to provide more ways for families to connect.

• 2021 copyright
• Offers 150 single words and short phrases
• For toddlers ages 0-3
• Offers everyday illustrations organized around daily routines familiar to babies
• Over sized board book

Become a word virtuoso in just one year with 366 crackerjack words aimed to impress. This charmingly illustrated book features boffo words selected by the masterminds at Merriam-Webster to highlight the best of the English language.

Follow a menagerie of animals as they teach one new word for each day of the year, including a definition, pronunciation, part of speech label, and interesting trivia about the word. Each month concludes with an outlandish story that features all the new words learned. The book features 12 free audio downloads so kids can hear each month's story read aloud by celebrity narrators including Rachel Bloom, David Harbour, and Soledad O'Brien. This delightfully challenging and surprising book will turn word aficionados into passionate logophiles! For ages 8-12.

• Offers 366 masterful words for children ages 8-12.
• Gives word histories, helpful illustrations and a definition.
• Provides audio pronunciation of each word.

Your little animal lovers will love hearing the amazing art of Eric Carle come alive! This sound book includes 30 animal themed sound buttons to press and captivating creatures on each page making Hear Bear Roar an amazing and interactive adventure!

• Hands on interaction engages young readers
• Connecting words with pictures builds vocabulary
• Multisensory reading experiences stimulate the imaginations of young readers
• Features the amazing art of Eric Carle, writer and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Includes an amazing amount of animals: grizzly bear, deer, fox, wolf, dolphin, lobster, wale, blue jay, bee, owl, seagull, bat, spider, woodpecker, monkey, leopard, goat, eagle, polar bear, penguin, walrus, seal, buffalo, horse, elephant, snake, lion, prairie dog, mouse, and a brown bear

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

ABC Get to Know the Saints with Me introduces young readers to the Communion of Saints in a simple and memorable way. Each page includes an easy to read letter of the alphabet and a charming rhyme about the life of the corresponding Saint in Heaven.

By introducing these holy men and women alongside friendly and approachable illustrations, this delightful book helps the saints become relatable and inspirational to young readers. It ends with words of encouragement for all to strive for sainthood.

• By: Caroline Perkins
• Pages: 56
• Format: Hardback

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

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

Oh, my little one,

I have great plans for you!

I have chosen you to be

a very important person

whom I will always love.


This beautifully illustrated, delightful story of an imaginary conversation between God and an unborn baby will lead children to see that from the very moment God gave them a soul at conception, He had great plans for them.

In this charming odyssey of self-discovery, the child imagines himself as an astronaut, a baker, a farmer, a doctor, a teacher, a parent, and a child . . . important simply for who he is — a child whom God will always love.

• By: Frank Fraser
• Pages: 40
• Format: Hardback

This is the story of a persistent problem and the child who isn't so sure what to make of it. The longer the problem is avoided, the bigger it seems to get. But when the child finally musters up the courage to face it, the problem turns out to be something quite different than it appeared.

• In a wonderful balance of text and pictures, the team responsible for What Do You Do With an Idea (2014) returns with another book inspiring children to feel good about themselves—Kirkus Reviews
• From the same author and illustrator as the #1 nationally best-selling What Do You Do With an Idea? comes a new book to encourage you to look closely at problems and discover the possibilities they can hold.
• Helps develop problem solving skills.
• Rich illustrations that will delight teachers and parents alike.
• Shows how every problem offers an opportunity.

We all remember our favorite teacher.

Where would we be without them those special people who inspire us, support us, and encourage us? Whether they're an educator, a coach, or a mentor, this book is for them. To celebrate the worlds they open up for us and to thank them for the difference they make.

This heartwarming book is a thank you gift for great teachers everywhere. Perfect for National Teacher Day, Teacher Appreciation Week, the end of the school year, or just because.

• This heartwarming book is a thank you gift for great teachers everywhere.
• Thank them for the difference they make.
• Great end of school year gift.