Word Family Tales are humorous read-aloud stories created to build early phonics skills by teaching children to recognize “families” of words that share the same spelling pattern. This key reading strategy helps kids decode new words with ease—and become stronger readers, writers, and spellers.
Elmo, Zoe, Big Bird, and Grover are excited about their very first sleep-out. But when they hear a noise in the trees and see a large shadow on the tent wall, the sleep-out starts to get a little spooky. In the end, all of the strange noises and shadows can be explained, and the friends say good night after a midnight snack of cookies and milk from Grover’s mom — who is close by in the house the whole time.
When Owen's second cousin Panda comes to visit, everyone thinks he's a quiet, shy little fellow. But once snack time rolls around and Panda gets his hands on some fruit, things go very, very wrong! Every time Panda goes crazy at snack time, Owen faces losing another one of his favourite snacks to an irrational ban... pretty soon, he'll only being able to eat lima beans, rutabagas and smelly eggplants and nothing else! Something must be done! "Panda Apples" is a funny childrens' book about a little bear's quest to make his nutty life a little more normal again.
The Snack Thief: : An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
In the third book in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series, the urbane and perceptive Sicilian detective exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue in a compelling new case.
