Pre-K (< 5)

Puff, the Magic Dragon is simply one of the most beloved songs of all time—a classic that’s become as much a part of the childhood experience as Mother Goose and fairy tales. Yet singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow and co-composer Lenny Lipton have never allowed a picture book adaptation of this magical tale…until now. With Yarrow’s and Lipton’s blessing, Puff, Jackie Paper, and the land of Honalee finally live on the page. The exquisite package includes a cloth case with a tipped-in illustration and an embossed jacket with foil touches, as well as an exclusive CD featuring not only Puff, but several …

Seeds sprout. Flowers bloom. Bees buzz. Pumpkins grow. Pumpkins decay and return to the earth. Spare lyrical text accompanies vivid close-up photographs showing the life cycle of pumpkins. You’ll also find information about growing your own pumpkins.

The follow-up to the popular Pinkalicious features another full-scale color crisis. Pinkalicious, true to her name, still loves pink, but all her female classmates much prefer black. In fact, these narrow-minded girls have ostracized their former friend. Being blackballed gives Pinkalicious a bad case of the blues. Can she ever recover her hue? A cute story about peer pressure and being yourself.

First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna collaborate in this entertaining picture book about the joys and benefits of reading. At the center of the adventure is Good Day Elementary School student Tyrone. Like many other young boys, restless Ty dreads classroom story time. Things change suddenly, however, when a mysterious disappearance sets Tyrone and his buddies off on an exciting search.

Red Riding Hood is taking a basket of 12 cookies to Grandma, but along the way she encounters nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters who request some of the goodies. At each character’s request, the reader turns the wheel and chooses the amount of cookies (0, 1, or 2) to share and, at the end, figures out how many cookies are left for Grandma. This interactive book can be read several times with many different outcomes. Give children actual or make- believe cookies (template provided in book) to figure out the math as you read the book aloud. Suggestions for …

Fact-filled poetry and prose, accompanied by exquisite watercolor illustrations, communicate the importance of nasi (rice) to the people of Bali. As children turn the pages they will join the Balinese in the sawahs, or rice fields, as they grow this life-sustaining grain.

This storybook is a collection of entertaining stories and poems involving celebrated children’s book artist Richard Scarry’s lovable cast of animal characters. These happy tales and lively illustrations make this treasury of the very best of Scarry’s work the best storybook ever.

Stuart J. Murphy believes that if math had been explained to him as a child using illustrations, he would have understood math concepts more easily. So he has come up with his own series of math storybooks (divided into three levels) with pictures by well-known children’s book illustrators. In Safari Park, a Level 3 book in this series (ages 7 and up), a boy Paul, his sister, and three cousins have 20 tickets each to spend at the newly opened Safari Park. The Tiger Wheel costs 4 tickets, the Bat Tunnel 2, and so on. How many rides can each …