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Assisted by his knight, Sir Cumference, and using ideas offered by his wife and son, King Arthur finds the perfect shape for his table.
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Snappy rhymes invite young readers to watch workers dig, pour, pound, and bolt a skyscraper into existence. Simple yet satis-fying sidebars provide further information about each step in the construction process. Perfect for preschoolers and all those who dig diggers. --
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A celebration of the strength, endurance, and athleticism of women and girls throughout the ages, Play Like a Girl keeps score with examples of women athletes from the late 1800s up through the 1970s, sharing how women refused to take no for an answer, and how finally, they pushe...d for a law to protect their right to play, compete, and be athletes.
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When a truck gets stuck under a bridge, it causes a terrible traffic jam that soon turns into a block party. When all attempts to remove the truck fail, two kids, some balloons, and a dog save the day.
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Poppy J. Thistleberry decides she wants to be a writer, but she is struggling to come up with material for her class writing assignments--and annoyed that her best friend Lavender keeps getting picked to read her paper.
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Outlines the process of making and patenting inventions and presents innovations in such fields as transportation, appliances, child and pet care, and amusement that did not work, were too early or too late, or failed for other reasons.
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Kate Greene lives in New York with her divorced mother, and attends sixth grade in the very progressive school, Village Humanity, and at the moment she has two main problems--partnering with Sam, the Incredible Dork, in developing the class production of Harriet the Spy, and copi...ng with her mother's obsession with cleanliness which is a symptom of her worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Intertwines lyrics to various children's songs with an indoor game of hide-and-seek.
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Throughout the ages, women from all classes and walks of life turned to pirating out of necessity, desperation, or greed. Acclaimed author Jane Yolen examines the contradictions of these bold women's lives and times. Meet Artemisia, the admiral-queen of Persia in 500 BC; Grania O...'Malley, the Irish pirate queen who challenged Queen Elizabeth I's ships; Madame Ching, who sailed the South China Sea in the early 1800's; and ten other female pirates on their ships, in battle, and in disguise.
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In simple rhyming text, this book follows hard working trucks from A to Z.
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