All the big and little pleasures of a family vacation are expressed in this lively, warm read-aloud, perfect for summer.In the just-right house by the sea, ten cousins are together with their grandparents for a rumble-tumble, twirling-singing, love-for-sharing vacation day—from breakfast bacon, playtime, and storytime through beach fun and all the way to bedtime hugs. Young readers will adore the whole experience of noisy hubbub mixed with quiet time that every won...

Greetings, Special Agent! You’ve accepted the mission: you’re going to be a big sibling! This is your super-secret guide to training your family’s newest recruit. There will be lots to do, like leading physical training (teaching your sibling to walk) and sharing intel (reading together), but we know you’re up for the challenge. Best of luck, Agent! This is HQ, signing off. Over and out!

A celebration of the power we all have inside of us to be loving and kind, perfect for fans of The Wonderful Things You Will Be and Oh, the Places You'll Go!It starts at the startwhen you can't even talk.Before you stand upand learn how to walk.Deep in your heartthe knowing is there.You know how to loveand you know how to care....

Fans of Emily Winfield Martin will delight in this loving, gorgeously illustrated story that celebrates new life.Hidden inside every living thing is an idea. That idea can sprout, sing, wriggle, take wing . . . into something amazing!Exploring beginnings both small and great, The Amazing Idea of You bonds the human and natural worlds in a lyrical burst of celebration.So dig deep, fly high, look around, and find the extraordinary inside ever...

From the New York Times Bestselling author of The Pout-Pout Fish series, Bloom into Spring is a picture book featuring a lovely mother-daughter story about growth, hope, and love.Dig holes in the autumn soil.Drop the flower bulbs in one by one.Cover them with dirt.Come spring, the bulbs will flower!In this lushly illustrated story that celebrates life and growing up, a parent and child plant a garden to see ho...

What will distract first-time students from first-day jitters? Entering secret-agent mode, of course! The team from Mission: New Baby is back with a new assignment: turn school into a thrilling action adventure! After rendezvousing at the vehicle checkpoint (meeting at the bus stop), young agents will learn to build diplomatic relations (make new friends), conduct fieldwork (explore outside during science class), and develop new lines of communication (learn to read and play music...

Spanning one full calendar year, this rhyming board book celebrates the deep love between caregiver and child.Rendered in couplets, the verses weave expressions of affection with vivid imagery from the natural world, making it ideal for teaching young ones about the seasons and the beauty of nature.With vibrant, heartwarming illustrations, this is a perfect read-aloud to foster warmth and closeness with baby.

The third installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she’s one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn’t better than anything she’s ever known. Tally still has memories of ...

A laugh-out-loud picture book with royal appeal!All hail King Baby! He greets his adoring public with giggles and wiggles and coos, posing for photos and allowing hugs and kisses. But this royal ruler also has many demands, and when his subjects can't quite keep up, King Baby takes matters into his own tiny hands.Created by Kate Beaton, author of The Princess and the Pony and #1 New York Times bestsellers Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops!, th...

Back in the Hamptons for a final summer, the sun is hot, but the drama’s hotter for Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui in the conclusion to the Beach Lane series.Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui thought they would be spending the summer apart, but when Eliza’s stepmom is in desperate need of a nanny, Eliza calls for reinforcements. And so back to the Hamptons it is…Mara’s sworn off romance, and focusing instead on writing a book about being an au pair and an It Girl. But she k...

When aspiring music journalist Ren Kingston takes a job nannying for a wealthy family on the exclusive island of Nantucket, playground for Boston's elite, she's hoping for a low-key summer reading books and blogging about bands. Boys are firmly offthe agenda.What she doesn'tcount on is falling in with a bunch of party-loving private school kids who are hiding some dark secrets; falling (possibly) in love with the local bad boy; and falling out with a dangerous serial killer......

A young girl makes her fractured family whole again with the help of a very special bookWhen eleven-year-old Ella's mother has to be hospitalized to undergo a dangerous cancer treatment, Ella spends the summer at "Broken Family Camp" with her eccentric grandmother, whom she's never met. The situation is hardly ideal for either of them. Ella is scared her mother may die, but her grandmother seems to care more about her library full of books than she does about her very own granddaug...