This new, quirky picture book by award-winning duo Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross is essential reading for couch potatoes!
Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog were very lazy. They ate and ate and ate. They drank and drank and drank. And they slept and slept and slept. But when they woke up, they were most uncomfortable. The sofa had shrunk! Or so they liked to think!
Once upon a time there were a brother and sister named Gretchen and Jon. They lived with their cruel stepmother at the edge of the woods. The wicked stepmother not only made them work very hard, but she also made them very little food. Gretchen and Jon decided to run away. The cruel stepmother was really a witch and she cast a spell on the children, that if they drank from a stream or brook they would turn into an animal. As fate would have it, Jon drank from a stream and was transformed into a deer immediately.
Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus RexFrom his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils--and sometimes oil--in every corner of the globe.
