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.

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...

A contemporary and irresistible story from Patricia Reilly GiffLidie lives in Jales, Brazil, where she’s free to ride, to be a wild girl, and to dream of going to live with her father and older brother, Rafael, in New York City. Finally Lidie is 12—time to leave Brazil for New York.Meanwhile, a filly is born and begins her journey to a new home. As Lidie’s story unfolds, so does the filly’s.Lidie’s father runs a stable at a famous race track, and Rafael is ...

When Desi Bascomb gets discovered by the elite Façade Agency--royalty surrogates extraordinaire--her life goes from glamour-starved to spectacular in a blink. As her new agent Meredith explains, Desi has a rare magical ability: when she applies the ancient formula Royal Rouge, she can temporarily transform into the exact lookalike of any princess who needs her subbing services.

Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets—into the outside. It's a new world of color and texture and grass and sky. But with all that comes snakes and rain and lawnmowers and raccoons and a different sort of mouse (field mice, they're called) not entirely trustworthy. Do the dangers outweigh t...

Boomer knows something's up the day a shiny new bowl appears next to his, but imagine Boomer's surprise when he finds himself nose to nose with a new puppy! Just when Boomer thinks he's no longer top dog, he discovers there's room for two, and that the puppy is more than a new sibling—he's a new friend. Boomer's Big Surprise is filled with the same warmth and humor as the first two books in the Boomer series, and will have special appeal to any child facing the arrival of a new ba...