Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric Types
Written by Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss
Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2012
Price: $22.99
Like the creatures so artfully rendered in the best-selling Alphabeasties, the dinosaurs in this stylish book are ingeniously engineered out of letters. A different typeface comprises each animal. Factual information about each dinosaur appears in multiple entries and fonts, making for an eye-catching and witty way to look at the ABC-DINO's...
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Archie's Giant Kids' Joke Book
Written by Archie Superstars
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $6.99
Join Archie and his friends in the funniest, silliest kid-friendly collection of cartoons, jokes and riddles ever! The laughs don't stop in page after full-color page of groaner puns, crazy comebacks, and silly riddles. Match wits with "Guess the Gag"--can you figure out the punchline? You won't want to put this...
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Make Magic! Do Good!
Written by Dallas Clayton
Illustrated by Dallas Clayton
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $17.99
From an exciting new face in children’s literature, Dallas Clayton, comes a book of illustrated poems full of wisdom, wonder, and whimsy.A boy with a beard tries to stay six forever. A frightful monster lives a million miles away, but is equally scared of you. A magic rope hangs from the...
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Pocket Packs: Alpha-Doodles
Written by Deborah Zemke
Format: Non-traditional book, 75 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $9.99
The format is a tri-fold case that snaps together to form an almost palm-size suitcase (without a handle). When opened and unfolded, there are 3 attached pockets which contain paper for color-coded doodle drawing activities--3 pieces of paper for each activity. Each activity includes:
--interesting info about the featured subject matter
--drawing instructions
--a...
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Pocket Packs: Doodles 2 Do
Written by Deborah Zemke
Format: Non-traditional book, 75 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $9.99
The format is a tri-fold case that snaps together to form an almost palm-size suitcase (without a handle). When opened and unfolded, there are 3 attached pockets which contain paper for color-coded doodle drawing activities--3 pieces of paper for each activity. Each activity includes:
--interesting info about the featured subject matter
--drawing instructions
--a...
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Quicksand
HIV/AIDS in Our Lives
Written by Anonymous
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $5.99
What is it like to be affected by HIV/AIDS? A moving first-person account offers insight — and basic facts.ONE DAY I FOUND OUT THAT SOMEONE I KNOW — MY BROTHER-IN-LAW, JAY — HAD HIV/AIDS. AT THE MOMENT I HEARD HIS DIAGNOSIS, I REALIZED THAT I HAD STEPPED INTO THE QUICKSAND OF...
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What Happens Next?
Written by Nicola Davies
Illustrated by Marc Boutavant
Format: Hardcover, 24 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $9.99
Lift the flaps and learn about animal life with two new books in a fresh, fun-filled series for curious preschoolers.Here’s a hungry chameleon with a long, long tongue. And here’s a big juicy caterpillar. Can you guess what happens next? What if a honeybee comes upon a beautiful patch of flowers...
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Who Lives Here?
Written by Nicola Davies
Illustrated by Marc Boutavant
Format: Hardcover, 24 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $9.99
Lift the flaps and learn about animal life with two new books in a fresh, fun-filled series for curious preschoolers.matching spread at the end make learning about habitats fun.The jungle is warm and steamy. What kind of animal might live there, a snow goose or a sloth? What about a still...
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Xtreme Illusions
Written by National Geographic
Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.95
Seeing is believing. But what if you simply can't believe your eyes? Dive into another dimension and experience the eye-boggling and brain-twisting extremes of these awesome optical illusions. This mind-bending collection of visual puzzles will amaze your friends, mystify your family and even blow your own mind!
Xtreme Illusions features every kind...
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Xtreme Illusions
Written by National Geographic
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 48 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $25.95
Seeing is believing. But what if you simply can't believe your eyes? Dive into another dimension and experience the eye-boggling and brain-twisting extremes of these awesome optical illusions. This mind-bending collection of visual puzzles will amaze your friends, mystify your family and even blow your own mind!
Xtreme Illusions features every kind...
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Dinosaurs!
Written by Dr. Robert T. Bakker
Illustrated by Luis Rey
Format: eBook, 24 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $3.99
Dinosaurs! follows the evolution of these spectacular creatures from their earliest beginnings as little fellows who had to evade attacks from giant croc relatives to today’s living dinosaurs.
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I'm a Truck
Written by Dennis Shealy
Illustrated by Bob Staake
Format: eBook, 24 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $3.99
How-dee! My name’s Big Blue Bill, and I’m a truck. I’ve got 18 big wheels turning, 600 horses under the hood, and 53 feet o’ trailer hangin’ on behind . . . So begins a book that introduces all types of trucks (with names such as Bony Tony and Leif the...
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The Little Lamb
Written by Phoebe Dunn
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $3.99
Full-color photographs. "Delectable photographs illuminate this appealing story of a little girl and a lamb."--
Child Study Assn.
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We Love Ballet!
Written by Jane Feldman
Format: eBook, 24 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $3.99
IT'S SEPTEMBER, AND it’s time for school—ballet school! Join a class of the youngest ballet students as they learn about music, balance, teamwork, and even have a recital. A perfect first ballet book.
Praise for Jane Feldman’s
I Am A Dancer:
“An attractive, up-to-date photo essay that will appeal to budding dancers. ...
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A Different Mirror for Young People
A History of Multicultural America
Written by Ronald Takaki
Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $18.95
A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of
A Different Mirror was published in 1993,
Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely...
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Angry Birds Playground: Animals
An Around-the-World Habitat Adventure
Written by Jill Esbaum
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $14.95
Help! The Angry Birds have lost their precious eggs and they need KIDS to find them. They'll search across the globe—the grasslands of Africa, the roaring seven seas, the dense Amazon rainforest, Australian outback and chilling polar arctic—with the help of their favorite Angry Birds characters. Kids will explore five different...
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Angry Birds Playground: Animals
An Around-the-World Habitat Adventure
Written by Jill Esbaum
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 128 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $21.90
Help! The Angry Birds have lost their precious eggs and they need KIDS to find them. They'll search across the globe—the grasslands of Africa, the roaring seven seas, the dense Amazon rainforest, Australian outback and chilling polar arctic—with the help of their favorite Angry Birds characters. Kids will explore five different...
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Bilbo's Last Song
Written by J.R.R. Tolkien
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $4.99
Bilbo’s Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkien’s epilogue to his classic work
The Lord of the Rings. As Bilbo Baggins takes his final voyage to the Undying Lands, he must say goodbye to Middle-earth. Poignant and lyrical, the song is both a longing to set forth on his...
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Do You Dream in Color?
Insights from a Girl Without Sight
Written by Laurie Rubin
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $18.95
Colors, Rubin tells us, affect everyone through sound, smell, taste, and a vast array of emotions and atmospheres. She explains that although she has been blind since birth, she has experienced color all her life.
In her memoir
Do You Dream in Color?, Laurie Rubin looks back on her life as an international opera...
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Do You Dream in Color?
Insights from a Girl without Sight
Written by Laurie Rubin
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $18.95
Colors, Rubin tells us, affect everyone through sound, smell, taste, and a vast array of emotions and atmospheres. She explains that although she has been blind since birth, she has experienced color all her life.
In her memoir
Do You Dream in Color?, Laurie Rubin looks back on her life as an...
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Harlem's Little Blackbird
Written by Renee Watson
Illustrated by Christian Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $17.99
Zora and Langston. Billie and Bessie. Eubie and Duke. If the Harlem Renaissance had a court, they were its kings and queens. But there were other, lesser known individuals whose contributions were just as impactful, such as Florence Mills. Born to parents who were former-slaves Florence knew early on that she...
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Harlem's Little Blackbird
Written by Renee Watson
Illustrated by Christian Robinson
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $10.99
Zora and Langston. Billie and Bessie. Eubie and Duke. If the Harlem Renaissance had a court, they were its kings and queens. But there were other, lesser known individuals whose contributions were just as impactful, such as Florence Mills. Born to parents who were former-slaves Florence knew early on that she...
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