Monkey and Robot are the best of friends—and they have the best of adventures! This chapter book includes four (more!) playful stories.Monkey always gets in the wildest messes. And Robot is always there to help him out. After all, what are best friends for?“Readers looking for funny friendship stories but who think that Frog and Toad and other early readers are a tad too easy will find this unlikely duo just right,” says Horn Book Magazine about th...

Emily is tired of pumpkins. At school she and her friend Vincetta Louise have been doing pumpkin math, pumpkin field trips, and pumpkin writing. Can't they just carve jack-o-lanterns? But even this ends up being an assignment: the kids have to make pumpkin self-portraits.Then something happens to Emily's jack-o-lantern, and her friendship with Vinni is tested. The two girls get past their quarrel—but will they ever want to see a pumpkin again?

Emily's Pop-Pop is shocked when he hears that Emily and Vincetta Louise don't know what a veteran is. With Veterans Day coming up, he volunteers to talk to their class about the holiday and the people it honors. But Emily is worried. Pop-Pop sometimes falls asleep at the strangest times. What if he falls asleep in front of the whole class? Everyone would laugh!Vinni and Emily come up with a plan. With so much to learn, they have to make sure that no one sleeps through this Veterans ...

Meet Emily, and her new friend—sort of . . .Emily loves her shiny black lunch bag—the jewels, the way it sparkles. But one day a new school bus picks her up, and in the confusion she forgets her lunch bag on the bus. Will she get a ticket, like that loud girl Vincetta Louise said? Or will Emily be forced to eat the Secret Lunch Special?From fickle friendships to mystery meat, kids everywhere will identify with Emily as she navigates the rough waters of second...

"You can almost hear the skipping rope slapping the sidewalk,” wrote Margaret Laurence of Dennis Lee’s timeless poetry collection Alligator Pie. One of the first illustrated books published about Canadian children and featuring Canadian place names, Alligator Pie established Dennis Lee’s reputation as “Canada’s Father Goose” and has sold more than half a million copies since its publication in 1974. This classic edition, featuring Frank Newfeld’s instantly recognizable or...

Here is a fast, fun and easy way for kids to learn the multiplication table beginning with number 2 and running through 9.Learning the multiplication table can be frustrating for kids learning it and the adults teaching it. Progress in memorization of multiplication usually comes slowly. The challenge for children is that numbers are abstracts, which means they are not easily visualized. In turn, they are difficult to remember. So why not capitalize on a strength of children, their...

Emily was like her ninety-nine brothers and sisters, until she won all the eight-legged races at spider sports. People grew suspicious. And then, they counted her legs. She had ten!It's not her fault, but everyone turns against her. But there's something very special about Emily's legs that will change her life for ever . . .

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...

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 ...

Once upon a time there was a football-crazy boy, a fun-free town and a girl who got lost in the forest - 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 Cinderboy, The Fried Piper of Hamstring (Shortlisted for the Notts Children's Book Award), Ghostyshocks and the Three Scares (Children's Book Award Pick of the Year).

With signature wit and whimsy, the inimitable Daniel Pinkwater introduces an eccentric, endearing babysitter every child will wish they could have.Nick and Maxine live in a tall building with one apartment on top of another. So when they look out their window and see a little house they never knew was there, of course they must visit (especially when their parents tell them not to!). Going through the boiler room, they’re amazed to find to a secret backyard with a ...

This eBook introduces the subjects of addition and subtraction and its practice, numbers from 0 to 999, place value, number lines, counting on and back in 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s, counting sequences and patterns, addition, subtraction, number machines, number facts, number bonds, what's the difference, adding three numbers and working with money.This eBook is part of our range of Grades 1 & 2 math eBooks that are fully aligned with the North American math curriculum. These eBooks co...