Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this award-winning story about Strega Nona, the beloved Italian "Grandma Witch, " and her magic pasta-making pot. In this slightly abridged version of the original, author/illustrator Tomie de Paola combines humor and warmth as he builds the story to a hilarious climax. (Full color)
The most trusted guide to the world of children's publishing! If you write or illustrate for young readers with the hope of getting published, the 2015 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is the trusted resource you need. Now in its 27th edition, CWIM is the definitive publishing guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. Inside you'll find more than 500 listings for children's book markets (publishers, agents, magazines, and more)--including a point of contact, how to properly submit your work, and what categories each market accepts.
Where is Croaky?(tumblebook) Where is Croaky? Join Gilbert on his quest to find his froggy-friend, Croaky? Is Croaky in the vines? Near the pond? In the kitchen? Where could Croaky be?
Dazzling armor! Daring sword fights! Colin longs to live like a medieval knight. His brother challenges him to try it for a week— with hilarious consequences! Keywords: knights, Middle Ages, little brothers, chores
Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation (illustrated)
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.
