This is about the Time Warp Trio - Joe, Fred and Sam, who, with the "help" of Joe's book, a birthday present from Joe's magician uncle, travel to the most unlikely destinations. The travelling trio's search for buried treasure brings them up against the notorious pirate, Blackbeard.

Not-so-jolly Roger (Puffin Books)

JON SCIESZKA

Lane, Smith

Literature & Fiction

Puffin Books

"I can't wear glasses", says the young patient, "only dorks wear glasses". "Wrong", says the mad optician, who points out that his mother and sister already wear glasses. And not only them, as the optician outlines a little-known world of glasses-wearers.

Glasses, Who Needs 'em? (Picture Puffin)

Children's Books

Stinky Cheeseman (Spanish Edition)

Penguin Books (NZ)

This is the story of Pinocchio as it's never been told before. The Blue Fairy turns him from a wooden puppet into a real boy while he's asleep but forgets to tell him. Luckily he is befriended by a little girl and together they take a wintry walk to find soup for his sick father and find the boy that he's become. Lane Smith's rich palette and the warmth and expressiveness of his illustrations capture the poignancy and humour of Pinocchio's plight.

Pinocchio the Boy (Picture Puffin)

Puffin

Product Description  From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.       A Look Inside Grandpa Green (Click on   Images to Enlarge)

Grandpa Green

World Literature

Macmillan Children`s Books

Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just-plain-annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have found a way around that problem-they just make like Aesop and change all the people to animals or food, add a moral to each story, and call the stories fables! With tales like "Little Walrus," in which too much of the truth is a dangerous thing, the cautionary "Slug's Big Moment," wherein Slug is so caught up in herself that she doesn't see the steamroller behind her, and "Straw and Matches," which illustrates quite clearly why you should never play with matches (because they cheat), the eighteen fables in this uproarious collection are sure to delight readers both young and old.

Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables

scholastic

Baloney (Henry P.)

Scholastic. Inc.

clever adorable creative conducive to reading

The Happy Hocky Family

Trumpet Special Ed

John, Paul, George & Ben

K-Gr. 3. The title offers a clue that Smith is winking at adults, but as good a joke as it is, most children just won't get it. In the stories within, bold-schoolboy John (Hancock) writes his name so large on the blackboard that his exasperated teacher remarks, "We don't need to read it from space." Similarly, loudmouthed Paul (Revere) embarrasses a lady who comes into his shop to buy extralarge underwear; honest George (Washington) admits to chopping down an entire orchard; clever Ben (Franklin) annoys the neighbors with his platitudes; and independent Tom (Jefferson)^B presents a list of grievances to his teacher. The time comes, though, when their traits are valuable to the revolutionary cause. To reach full comic potential, Smith stretches the truth beyond the breaking point, then attempts to undo some of the misconceptions he has created in a true-false quiz, "Taking Liberties," on the closing pages. Deftly drawn, witty, and instantly appealing, the illustrations creatively blend period elements such as wood-grain and crackle-glaze texturing, woodcut lines, and formal compositions typical of the era, with gaping mouths and stylized, spiraling eyes typical of modern cartoons. The artwork and design are excellent and adults will chortle, but this book seems likely to confuse children unfamiliar with the period. Kids will need to know actual, factual American history to appreciate what's going on. Carolyn Phelan Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved

John, George, and Ben

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