Drawing on Christmas miracle stories from around the world, this lavishly illustrated text acts as a lullaby for babies and young children. It tells the story of how Mary soothed her own baby with a song of the animals who shared the stable...more details Format:Hardback
Cousin Lazybones comes to visit Aunt Nancy and all he does is eat and sleep. But Aunt Nancy soon hatches a clever plan to send him skedaddling! She pretends that she's sick and Cousin Lazybones will have to do all the work....more details Format:Hardback
Aunt Nancy is an old woman with more brains than God gave a whole flock of sheep. And she needs them too, when good-for-nothing Cousin Lazybones comes to visit - all he does is eat and sleep...more details Format:Paperback
When Old Man Trouble comes calling, the spring dries up, the fire goes out and the door nips shut on the cat's tail, and all the time, Old Man Trouble sits there grinning. Old Man Trouble plays all sorts of tricks on Aunt Nancy...more details Format:Paperback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763630744
Come on in and stay a spell Aunt Nancy outwits four unwelcome guests in these trickster tales from a masterful storyteller. It would take a real pesky visitor to make himself unwelcome to Aunt Nancy. But just her luck -- not one but FOUR bothersome folks come knocking at her door From Cousin Lazybones to Old Man Trouble...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:56
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9781406310580
Today ain't looking so good for Aunt Nancy - she has not one, but four bothersome visitors knocking at her door. From everyone's least favourite relative...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:80
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9781844284696
When Big Mama made the world, she didn't mess about. Earth, sky and sea; sun and moon; plants and trees; fish, birds and animals; all fell right in line with Big Mama's plans...more details Format:Paperback
Today ain't looking so good for Aunt Nancy - she has not one, but four bothersome visitors knocking at her door. From everyone's least favourite relative...more details Format:Hardback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763620042
A stormy night, a snoring dad, a houseful of restless sleepers, and some masterfully humorous timing make this a classic read-aloud for bedtime -- or anytime. It's the middle of the night. Everyone's snoozing in bed when out of the darkness...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9781406318258
This is a delightful book celebrating Baby's first steps in the world. What a wonderful thing it is to take your very first steps! Or to flap your wings for the first time if you're a baby bird...more details Format:Hardback Pages:32
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763631093
Infectious rhymes, sunny illustrations, and an array of baby animals make an irresistible page-turner for the youngest of listeners. Little readers are invited to join these baby animals as they fly...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763653255
Infectious rhymes, sunny illustrations, and an array of baby animals make an irresistible page-turner for the youngest of listeners. Little readers are invited to join these baby animals as they fly...more details Format:Board book Pages:32
Bonnie Bumble's rooster has lost his cock-a-doodle-doo and no one can get out of bed! Where's the rooster's voice gone? Can Bonnie help him find it?...more details Format:Paperback
Another of the popular children's picture books charting the adventures of Bonnie Bumble and her animal friends. In this volume, the rooster loses his "Cock-a-doodle-doo"...more details Format:Hardback
Readers are introduced to Tabby Cat in this cheerful, amusing story for beginner readers. The book is designed for first-time readers, enabling them to quickly master early reading skills...more details Format:Other book format
Readers meet Tabby Cat again in this cheerful, amusing story for beginner readers. The book is designed for first-time readers, enabling them to quickly master early reading skills...more details Format:Other book format
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763617943
When a rhythmic read-aloud master pairs up with a Caldecott Honor-winning artist to visit endearing species of baby animals, the result can only be instant toddler appeal. HOP The nonstop antics of five baby bunnies have them bumping...more details Format:Board book Pages:16
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763648794
When a rhythmic read-aloud master pairs up with a Caldecott Honor-winning artist to visit endearing species of baby animals, the result can only be instant toddler appeal. HOP The nonstop antics of five baby bunnies have them bumping...more details Pages:16
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744589153
Mama May lives where the earth meets the sky, and has so many children she can't count them all. But her most curious and stubborn child is Annalisa. One day Annalisa milks Mama May's magic cow...more details Format:Paperback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763638856
An ear-tickling, eye-teasing romp for little listeners, led by an award-winning author and illustrator Do you really, really want to see a moose -- a long-leggy moose -- a branchy-antler...more details Format:Paperback Pages:40
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763620059
An ear-tickling, eye-teasing romp for little listeners, led by an award-winning author and illustrator Do you really, really want to see a moose -- a long-leggy moose -- a branchy-antler...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763622961
This is a delightful book celebrating Baby's first steps in the world. What a wonderful thing it is to take your very first steps! Or to flap your wings for the first time if you're a baby bird...more details Format:Hardback Pages:40
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744573312
Bonnie Bumble's pussy willows have burst into bloom and they're raising a real rumpus! What can Bonnie do to hush their meowing?...more details Format:Paperback
Another of the popular children's picture books charting the adventures of Bonnie Bumble and her animal friends. In this volume, Bonnie attempts to stop her pussy willows meowing by petting them and feeding them cat food...more details Format:Hardback
-- funny stories -- pictures that make words easy to guess -- eight-page stories that can be finished in one sitting, ensuring a satisfying reading experience -- notes for parents and teachers to help them guide beginning readers Brand New Readers are the most effective way to make reading a success -- the very first time....more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763642099
Big Books meet our Brand New Readers for the very first time, with short, funny stories by top authors and illustrators. What better way to share the joy of beginning to read...more details Format:Paperback Pages:40
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763641238
"The happy ending is totally satisfying and will leave readers smiling." -- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) Oliver is so intent on following a blowing autumn leaf that he doesn't even notice that he's lost his way. All alone at the edge of the woods...more details Format:Board book Pages:32
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744585421
Knitty Kitty finds a cuddly way to keep her three mischievous kittens cosy and warm. Clickerty-click, clackerty-clack go Knitty Kitty's needles. What is she knitting? Something to keep her three little kittens cosy...more details Format:Hardback
"If I could, I'd swim the deep in search of treasures for you to keep." From the first rays of the morning sun to the last nod of a tiny head at bedtime...more details Format:Paperback
When one duck gets stuck in some muck, a variety of other creatures try to help him out, including two fish (tails going swish), three moose (munching on spruce)...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744581072
Down by the sleepy, slimy marsh a duck gets stuck in the muck. One after another different groups of creatures in ever increasing numbers try to pull the unlucky duck out...more details Format:Board book
Exuberant rhythms and vibrant illustrations in a one-of-a-kind counting book Can two fish, tails going swish, help? Will three moose, munching on spruce...more details Format:Board book Pages:32
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744556001
Down by the sleepy, slimy marsh a duck gets stuck in the muck. Help! Help! Who can help? Can two fish, tails going swish? Or three moose, munching on spruce? Or four crickets...more details Format:Hardback
One after another different groups of creatures try to pull the unlucky duck out of the icky, sticky muck - five frogs, six skunks, seven snails...more details Format:Paperback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780374357597
Bounding with oversize visual and verbal humor, here is the previously untold story of Paul Bunyan's "little" sister, who was as tall as a pine tree...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763617936
When a rhythmic read-aloud master pairs up with a Caldecott Honor-winning artist to visit endearing species of baby animals, the result can only be instant toddler appeal. QUACK Mama Duck announces the hatching of five peeping...more details Format:Board book Pages:16
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763648800
When a rhythmic read-aloud master pairs up with a Caldecott Honor-winning artist to visit endearing species of baby animals, the result can only be instant toddler appeal. QUACK Mama Duck announces the hatching of five peeping...more details Pages:16
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763641399
"Here's a happy story hour choice. . . .A picture book that passes the fun test with flying fizz." -- Booklist It's hot, hot, hot So Junie and Jake and Poppa and the baby want to go to the lake. But can they make it there in their rattletrap car? It doesn't go fast...more details Format:Paperback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744589320
One day, Neligan's pig sits by the pond watching the ducks and geese play on the cool water. The pig gets hotter and hotter; the ducks and the geese get louder and louder. Then...more details Format:Paperback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744573022
The rattletrap car doesn't go fast and it doesn't go far - and when a family set off to the lake in it one hot day it soon starts to fall apart....more details Format:Hardback
This is a delightful book celebrating Baby's first steps in the world. What a wonderful thing it is to take your very first steps! Or to flap your wings for the first time if you're a baby bird...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763641641
A lonely cat, a rainy night, and an empty dinghy launch a heartwarming, seafaring tale about finding home in unlikely places. The scrawny cat used to belong to someone...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744573268
One Saturday it rains so hard on Bonnie Bumble's farm, it washes the blue right out of the sky! Everything turns blue, including the chicken's eggs...more details Format:Hardback
Root's lilting verses soothe the ear...An unusually fine addition to parents' sleep inducing bag of tricks.-- Booklist Outside in the farmyard...more details Format:Board book Pages:12
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744585414
Ten little lambs want to play. But the sun is sinking, the stars are twinkling and sleepy eyes start to droop. ten, nine, eight, seven...count the sheep as they fall asleep!...more details Format:Hardback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744573251
A witty conceit of a favourite nursery rhyme - with over 70 pop-ups and flaps! Jill's little house is so cosy and perfect, all her nursery-rhyme neighbours would like a room of their own. But as Jill's household grows and grows...more details Format:Hardback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763610081
Flip the flaps, open a fun foldout, and peek inside a final pop-up to find out what happens when everyone's favorite storybook characters move into THE HOUSE THAT JILL BUILT. Jill's house is so cozy and warm that all her nursery-rhyme friends are knocking on the door...more details Format:Hardback
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780763636289
A lack of rain makes snapdragons snap and tiger lilies growl -- until Bonnie gets an idea -- in this silly tale by a master of wordplay and an acclaimed illustrator. One Thirsty Thursday on Bonnie Bumble's farm...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:24
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9781406330793
Pierre lives all alone at the foot of a mountain, and his heart, how it longs for a friend. Perhaps if he hops in his car - toot toot zoom! - he will find a friend on the other side of the mountain! On the road - he meets Goat...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:40
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Phyllis Root
ISBN:9780744554977
When Bonnie Bumble eats five plum turnovers for breakfast one Tuesday, her world turns topsy-turvy, literally! Suddenly she's upside down and nothing...more details Format:Paperback
When Bonnie Bumble eats five plum turnovers for breakfast one Tuesday, her world turns topsy-turvy, literally! Suddenly she's upside down and nothing...more details Format:Hardback
Baby won't sleep, so his family try to find a solution. They bring flowers for Baby to look at, a soft feathery goose for him to cuddle, a cow to kiss him...more details Format:Hardback
Everyone in the family wants to help the baby find sleep. They try everything from bringing flowers to a tree full of song birds. At last the youngest child finds the right answer...more details Format:Paperback
A sympathetic and amusing tale of two boys, alone in a dark room at night. Every child (and adult!) has experienced irrational fears in a dark room at night. What's That Noise? encapsulates perfectly the strange shadows and unearthly noises made by objects that...more details Format:Hardback
"Among the many creation retellings and variations, this one takes the cake." -- THE HORN BOOK (starred review) When Big Momma makes the world...more details Format:Paperback Pages:48
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Phyllis Root;Helen Oxenbury
ISBN:9780763611323
Powerful, warm, and utterly original, this no-nonsense tall tale of Big Momma the creator is a jubilant celebration of our beautiful world - and a reminder to take good care of it. "Earth...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:48
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Kelly Povo;Phyllis Root PhyllisRoot
ISBN:9781573249690
Kelly Povo and Phyllis Root is a hilarious travelogue of Gladys' adventures in search of herself, complete with hand-colored photographs that will have women of all ages laughing out loud....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:64
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Phyllis Root;Beth Krommes
ISBN:9781417717750
Grandmother Winter lives all alone with her snow-white flock of geese. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Grandmother Winter tends her geese and gathers their feathers. Why? To bring snowfall as soft as feathers and bright as a winter moon. To the woodland and all of its creatures...more details
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Phyllis Root;Beth Krommes
ISBN:9780395883990
All through the spring, summer and fall, Grandmother Winter tends her geese and gathers their feathers. Why? To bring snowfall, of course-snowfall as soft as feathers and bright as a winter moon. With a poetic text and distinctive scratchboard illustrations...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:32
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Phyllis Root;Katharine McEwen KatherineMcEwen
ISBN:9780763607722
Visit www.brandnewreaders.com to learn more about this unique series -- and to try one on-line Based on what experts know about how children learn to read...more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Phyllis Root;Katherine McEwen
ISBN:9780763608002
Visit www.brandnewreaders.com to learn more about this unique series -- and to try one on-line Based on what experts know about how children learn to read...more details Format:Boxed Set Pages:8
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Phyllis Root;Jim Meyer
ISBN:9780618393145
If you really want to see a woodland caribou, you might try going to a place forgotten by time. It should be a hushed place, with perhaps rocky green hills and blue water...more details Format:Hardcover
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Phyllis Root;Will Hillenbrand
ISBN:9780763620035
"With simple language, predictable rhythms and repetition, and flawless pacing, Root's] story begs to be read aloud. . . . Hillenbrand's immense attention to detail is gratifying" - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) When a very curious little girl meets a cow named Luella who is even more stubborn than she is...more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Phyllis Root;Christopher Denise
ISBN:9780763613839
A small bear looks for--and finds--courage and a way home. While Mama hangs the wash out and Papa rakes the leaves, Oliver chases a big yellow leaf . . . Oliver is so intent on following a blowing autumn leaf that he doesn't even notice that he's lost his way. All alone at the edge of the woods...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Phyllis Root;Jane Chapman
ISBN:9780763603342
Exuberant rhythms and vibrant illustrations in a one-of-a-kind counting book One duck is stuck in the muck. Can two fish, tails going swish...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Phyllis Root;Jane Chapman
ISBN:9780763638177
"Perfect for reading aloud, this counting book has lots of sound effects that children will love to replicate. . . . Great fun." -- BOOKLIST One duck is stuck in the muck. Can two fish...more details Format:Paperback
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Phyllis Root;Jane Chapman
ISBN:9780763615666
"Perfect for reading aloud, this counting book not only contains bright bold illustrations but also has lots of . . . sound effects that children will love to replicate."-- Booklist Down by the marsh...more details Format:Paperback Pages:40
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Phyllis Root;Helen Craig
ISBN:9780763602789
What happens when the wind blows and BLOWS Well, one windy Wednesday, Bonnie Bumble found out The wind blew so hard it blew the quack right out of the duck...more details Format:Paperback Pages:24
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Phyllis Root;Helen Craig
ISBN:9780613084864
What happens when the wind blows and BLOWS Well, one windy Wednesday, Bonnie Bumble finds out The wind blows so hard it blows the quack right out of the duck ...more details
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Phyllis Root;Jill Barton
ISBN:9781417635412
It's hot. Hot, hot, hot So Junie and Jake and Poppa and the baby want to go to the lake. But they make it there in their rattletrap car? It doesn't go fast...more details
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Phyllis Root;Jill Barton
ISBN:9780763620073
"A picture book that passes the fun test with flying fizz." -- BOOKLIST It's hot. Hot, hot, hot So Junie and Jake and Poppa and the baby want to go to the lake. But can they make it there in their rattletrap car? It doesn't go fast...more details Format:Paperback Pages:40
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Phyllis Root;Margot Apple
ISBN:9780374354848
A family history in patches and stories Summer evenings at Grandma's house always end just the way Sadie likes - with Grandma tucking her in with the name quilt. As Sadie chooses from among the patchwork of hand-stitched names of generations of relatives...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32