This lively board book marks the debut of Handprint's Nursery Play-Along Classics. This just-right-for-lap-time title features not only whimsical illustration and full text of a nursery favorite, but also an engaging picture-story expanding on the verse, and clear visual instructions to allow a parent to actively share the material in delightful, playful interludes with young listeners. 
Our earliest awareness of language often comes from chanting beloved nursery rhymes. Equally important, they provide hours of fun—to recite, to act out, to extend into imaginative stories. The Nursery Play-Along Classics, illuminated in soft pencil and pastel hues, are the perfect and most enjoyable way to introduce these essential texts to babies and young toddlers.

This Little Piggy Went to Market: Handprint Books (Nursery Play-Along Classic)

Children's Books

Herman, R.A.

Literature & Fiction

Hand Print

One of the smallest animals in the forest offers a prayer, moving in its simplicity, powerful in its message, beautiful in its visual and -- literally -- touchable art. As day breaks and the sun rises, the woodland night creatures prepare for sleep. The smallest among them, a tiny mouse, bows his head and recites a sweet and touching prayer: Bless all creatures North and South, Bless trees, and trunks, and roots, and boughs. Bless all creatures East and West. Bless Mama, bless Papa -- I love them best. In nature paintings of rare beauty, John Butler depicts the misty, early morning woodland setting with great delicacy, detailed realism, and reverence. The flocking throughout enhances not only the loveliness of the art, but the enjoyment of young readers who will love touching/petting the appealing little mouse and all the glories of nature that surround him.

Bless This Mouse: A Soft-to-Touch BookHandprint Books

Aston, Dianna Hutts

Animals

Only Carol Diggory Shields could reduce a whole body of knowledge to forty incisive, hilarious, and all-encompassing poems! In this newest addition to the BrainJuice series, Carol Diggory Shields undertakes to impart all the really important facets of the English language -- and impart she does! Do you want the last word on punctuation? Spelling? Diagramming a sentence? Drafting a letter, keeping a journal, writing poetry? No aspect of English is left unexamined, and both students and teachers will not only find BrainJuice: English extremely cool, but they will be forever grateful to the author for supplying them with "36 Ways to Say Cool" (see sample below*). Supporting the author's heroic efforts to make English funny, comprehensible and comprehensive, as well as irresistible, Tony Ross offers art that is funny, comprehensible, comprehensive, and extremely irresistible! *A small sampling from "36 Way to Say Cool": Groovy, great, the cat's meow, awesome, chill, phat, wow, marvy, dandy, swell, divine, nifty, peachy-keen, fine!

BrainJuice: English, Fresh Squeezed!: Handprint Books

Diggory Shields, Carol

Karen Baicker's can-do heroine is back. This time, instead of figuring out what she has to learn, as she did in I Can Do It Too!, she is teaching her young sibling everything she thinks he needs to know. From banging a spoon on the back of a pan for music to march by to spitting straight into the sink when it is tooth-brushing time, the big sister is very busy—so busy that it takes a while for her to realize that her little brother can do something she cannot! Ken Wilson-Max's vivid, posterlike illustrations and Karen Baicker's simple, family-friendly poetry make this reading pleasure for toddlers, their older siblings, and the grown-ups who love them.

You Can Do It Too!: Handprint Books

Baicker, Karen

Rosie is haunted by monster nightmares. Waking up in a pool of sweat, she is bound and determined to confront her fears. Her solution is so deft and clever, missing a deep knowledge of childhood, exuberant energy, and…a kiss, that it will leave young readers cheering and, more important, armed with some of the tools to tackle their own night monsters. 
Philip Waechter, the creator of the wonderfully all-too-human hero bear in Me!, now shows an equally keen and sensitive appreciation of the dilemmas of childhood. In Rosie he has created a feisty and courageous little heroine, who can stand proudly next to William Steig's Brave Irene and Kevin Henke's Lily.

Rosie and the Nightmares: Handprint Books

Waechter, Phillip

On normal mornings, the first thing Vernon saw from his bedroom window was a big hayfield between two long, wooded hills. This particular morning was different: a Big White Thing outside his window was blocking his view. "Where'd it come from?" Vernon whispered. "How should I know?" Junior whispered back. "What is it?" "I bet I know!" Vernon said. "It's a tank that must have exploded and landed here! It just missed us!" Junior didn't see the Big White Thing as a tank. "Know what it looks like?" he asked. "A spaceship." Vernon shook his head. "A spaceship? Get a grip!" — from the book For everyone who wants to grow up and read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! It all started with the gently-used spaceship that appeared in the backyard. That's the backyard of Vernon and Junior Smith, thirteen-year-old twins in Whipple Crossing, Pennsylvania. The craft made a curious whirring noise and came complete with a cranky robot with attitude. But real trouble shows up at the front door two days later, in the form of a weasely tax collector from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania demanding $1,000,000 in back taxes for illegally parked space vehicle—otherwise jail time awaits. What to do? Part-time paleontologist granddad's no help—he's off in the Antarctic hunting for fossils. Vernon and Junior agree (a rare occurrence) that running away is the best way to go. But where to run? And how to get there? Well, there is that used spaceship in the backyard... An exuberant skewering of space travel, delivery people, tax collectors, robots, TV anchors, trading, learning languages, bad/good manners, and the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this is a hilarious send-up of the world we know and the one in outer space we do not.

The Accidental Spaceship

Hunt, Gene

History homework getting you down? Too much to learn? Names? Dates? Important events? Hang in there! Help is on the way! Adroitly reducing reams of boring data about our nation's past to a generous selection of over-the-top verses, Carol Diggory Shields presents our history with incisive hilarity.

Brainjuice: American History, Fresh Squeezed!: Handprint Books

In the successful tradition of This Little Piggy Went to Market and Pat-a-Cake, here is a new Nursery Rhyme Play-Along Classic—a joy to read aloud, to feast the eyes, to chant together, and to use in interactive play. 
Illustrated with soft pencil drawings in tender shades of pastels, this is a beguiling book just right for babies, toddlers . . . and their parents!

Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill (Nursery Play-Along Classic) (A Nursery Play Along Classic)

R. A. Herman

PiggyWiggy is an endearing character with an imagination that literally stretches beyond the limits of the page. From pilot to pirate, doctor to driver, this engaging porker imagines his career options before snuggling up in bed with a book. Always at his side: His faithful companion Teddy. Bursting with energy, brilliant in color, intense with the emotions of childhood, PiggyWiggy exhibits many of the same qualities that distinguish Lucy Cousins' Maisy and Rosemary Wells' Max. A fold-out highlights every spread: a generous loop-the-loop almost 400 square inches large, flaps hiding a map to the pirate's treasure, a scrumptious two-foot-high cake, and more. PiggyWiggy's debut volume celebrates the magic of childhood while serving as a reassuring bedtime story.

Goodnight Piggywiggy: A Pull-the-Page book

Fox, Christyan and Diane

Exquisitely embellished in gold, imbued with the vibrant palette of the Renaissance, and painstakingly rendered on bass wood panels, Brother Wolf embraces the spirit of its time. An old wolf terrorizes the villagers of Gubbio-until Saint Francis brings about a peace between man and animal. This inspiring and favorite legend is richly illuminated and lovingly depicted by a new artist of great talent. A storyteller's ear informs a tale whose gentle message of spirituality and the brotherhood of all living things will strike a resonant chord. Those familiar with art history will delight in finding images which quote famous paintings; all others will simply delight.

Brother Wolf of Gubbio: A Saint Francis LegendHandprint Books

Santangelo, Colony Elliott

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