Melissa Sweet
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Presents a tribute to the creator of the giant balloons that fill the sky during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, tracing the work of artist Tony Sarg, whose innovative "upside-down puppet" creations have become the parade's trademark.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After being left by the side of a road with nothing but her favorite sock toy, Tupelo meets a pack of dogs led by Garbage Pail Tex as they are wishing for new homes, then joins them as they catch a passing train and share stories of dog heroes.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
As a boy, John James Audubon loved to watch birds. In 1804, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his home in France to Pennsylvania. There he took a particular interest in peewee flycatchers. While observing these birds, John James became determined to answer a pair of two-thousand-year-old questions: Where do small birds go in the winter, and do they return to the same nest in the spring?
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities?
11) Easy as pie
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Jacob watches his favorite television show, "Baking with Chef Monty," and bakes a beautiful peach pie, which he gives to his parents for their anniversary.
12) A giant crush
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Too shy to approach the girl he likes, Jackson hides little gifts for her to discover before Valentine's Day.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Baabwaa and William are friends, and together they decide to have an adventure of their own. After meeting a fierce wolf in sheep's wool they form an unusual friendship with the wolf, teaching him to read and knit. They also lose a little weight.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The story of "shy young Peter Mark Roget, [for whom] books were the best companions--and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time"--Amazon.com.
18) Bouncing time
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
An exuberant infant bounces through the day's activities, including a trip to the zoo.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention--and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido's playful text and Melissa Sweet's dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them--poems just waiting to be written down."--