This is a short children's Christmas story about a special pickle that is required to help Santa start his sled. It's almost Christmas and the Christmas Pickle has not yet showed up. Everyone is search and hoping it will turn up.This is a lovely children's Christmas story about a special pickle that is required each year to help Santa start his sled. Bit. it's almost Christmas and the Christmas Pickle has not yet shown itelf. Everyone is searching and hoping it will turn up.

These are two of Andersen’s best loved fairy tales for kids, which are brought up to date and refreshed for a whole new audience. Both of these stories are at once sweet and uplifting. Generations of children and adults alike have been charmed by these classic fairy tales. Each is unique in its own right, and yet they complement each other perfectly.As bedtime short stories, both have undeniable charm and power. While The Princess and the Pea is above all fun and jolly, The Little ...

After learning how to make balloon animals at camp, Emily and Elizabeth set out to create the ultimate balloon twist book -- for kids, by kids, with every page in full-color photographs. They left out the complicated designs and twists that required big hands, keeping only the projects that were fun and simple to learn. The book starts with seven-year-old Elizabeth's easiest balloon twists and works up to ten-year-old Emily's more advanced two and three-balloon creations. Include...

It's out of sight!For all you supersleuths out there, it's time to sharpen your searching skills and gear up for some serious fun! The Everything Kids' Hidden Pictures Book has tons of puzzles that take you from the beach to the classroom and all over town in search of out-of-the-way objects hidden from plain view. Grab a pencil and start exploring these creatively mastered puzzles!Whether you're sorting through laundry or posing for pictures, you ...

Bring excitement and holiday magic together with The Missing Santa: A Christmas Mystery Adventure, a captivating festive storybook that blends Christmas wonder with an engaging mystery for young readers.When Santa Claus mysteriously disappears just days before Christmas, the North Pole is thrown into chaos. With presents unfinished and Christmas Eve approaching fast, a group of brave friends must follow hidden clues, solve festive puzzles, and travel through snowy ...

Kenn Nesbitt and Linda Knaus -- two of today's fastest-rising poetry stars -- will light up your holiday celebration with this book of cheerful Christmas poetry. Nesbitt and Knaus teamed up to create 20 charming poems capturing all the things that could go wrong during the Christmas season, including hunting for a mall parking spot on the day after Thanksgiving, Santa getting stuck in the chimney, eating unusual foods at a potluck Christmas dinner, and more.Laugh your way t...

Once upon a time there was a Big Bad Girl, a miller's daughter and a teeny-tiny turnip - but did they all live happily ever after?Open up to find out what happens next in these brain-ticklingly brilliant Seriously Silly Stories! They're scarily silly!Includes Little Red Riding Wolf, Rumply Crumply Stinky Pin and The Rather Small Turnip.

Believe it or not, once Bessie balanced a tower of 8 beets. But today, when she tries to balance 8 beets . . . 3 fall. How many beets does Bessie balance today?A clever text and imaginative art mesh to create playful, simple math problems right on target for ages 5–99 . . . anyone who loves the magic of numbers! In this School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, budding young mathematicians can help Heloise add her dimes, nickels, and pennies to see which hat in Madame ...

A spy, some missing top-secret plans and a runaway train - the Mystery Mob are in for a hair-raising journey!The Mystery Mob series has been created specifically to encourage boys to get reading and to support teachers with paired and guided reading sessions. The books have been written by Roger Hurn, bestselling author and primary school teacher, and feature a gang of boys getting into scrapes as they investigate strange mysteries!

The real name of Mrs. Claus is "Santa Christina." For a long, long time, however, girls and boys (and parents and grandparents) never knew the real name of Mrs. Claus. They gave all their attention to her husband, Santa Claus, because he delivered toys to children who believe in Christmas. If people thought about Mrs. Claus, they imagined her "keeping house" at the North Pole, knitting in a rocking chair, baking cookies, or serving hot chocolate to Santa Claus and the Elves. But now, boys ...

Readers who have graduated from THE GRAPES OF MATH will find new, more advanced math challenges.Greg Tang is back with his bestselling approach to addition and subtraction: problem solving. By solving challenges that encourage kids to "group" numbers rather than memorize formulas, even the most reluctant math learners are inspired to see math in a whole new way! Math Potatoes is full of Tang and Briggs' trademark humor, wit, and extraordinary creativity. Tang has proven over and ov...

More first books for fledgling readers that offer the enjoyment of a good story with the thrill of accomplishment that comes from independent reading. Written in short, easy phrases with carefully selected vocabulary and plentiful illustrations, each book helps youngsters achieve success as they have fun.The series follows three friends who love to share stories. In each book, one is reminded of a well-known story:It's Not About the Ball! is based on The Frog Pr...