Children

A creative spirit learns that thinking “ish-ly” is far more wonderful than “getting it right” in this gentle fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book The Dot.Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere.Drawing is what Ramon does. It's what makes him happy....

In Peter H. Reynolds’s whimsical holiday story, young Roland learns that more isn’t always better — and rediscovers the magic of home. Roland can’t wait for Christmas Day, and when the morning finally arrives he races downstairs to see what is waiting for him....

A Monster Calls is a profoundly moving tale of grief, truth, and the monsters we face—inside and out. Since his mother fell ill, Conor O’Malley has been haunted by the same nightmare. But the monster that appears outside his window just past midnight is...

Patrick Ness's #1 New York Times bestseller in a movie tie-in version with a striking cover. A Monster Calls is a profoundly moving tale of grief, truth, and the monsters we face—inside and out. Since his mother fell ill, Conor O’Malley has been haunted...

A festive read-aloud brimming with all the joy and excitement of Christmastime — beginning, of course, with picking out a tree! Part of the magic of the Christmas season stems from the traditions that families and friends take part in every year: hanging up...

A fun and easy-to-understand introduction to one of the most famous writers in history—William Shakespeare! In this book, author Michael Rosen explains who Shakespeare was, what his life was like, and why people still love his plays and poems today. With fun facts, silly...

A fun and friendly look at one of the greatest storytellers ever—Charles Dickens! Written by author Michael Rosen, this book helps kids discover who Dickens was, what life was like in his time, and why his books are still read today. You’ll learn about...

Playful and jubilant, Michael Rosen’s read-aloud delight captures the can’t-sit-still spirit of children with energy to burn.This bunny is so wriggly! Around and around, on the ground, it waves its feet and drums out a beat. It just can’t stop! But, phew—it’s tiring being...

Just how happy is this puppy? Michael Rosen’s gleeful picture-book gambol follows a jubilant pooch from here to the stars and back.This puppy is HAPPY! So happy it wants to shout about it! Riding high on a cloud of joy, it wants to sing...

When you’re hungry—really hungry—what exactly could you eat? From the delicious to the daffy, Michael Rosen’s rhyming read-aloud offers a tasting menu for the silliest toddler connoisseurs among us.Look out! This squirrel is hungry. So hungry, it could eat . . . everything! Just...

In a masterful new collaboration, personal poems and poignant art illuminate the experience of refugees and immigrants everywhere.That’s whyit can happen again.It does happen again.It has happened again.Some of Michael Rosen’s relatives were lost before he was born, in the Holocaust. First, he wondered...

With unmitigated honesty, a touch of humor, and sensitive illustrations by Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with us all.Sometimes I'm sad and I don’t know why.It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me...

"Playground dynamics become testy as a willful child attempts to exclude everyone else in this simple, humorous lesson in human relations... Deft and funny." —THE HORN BOOK George has a house made from a big cardboard box, and he says that no one else...

"Few anthologies for this age group include such a fine selection of works, introduce the poets so vividly, or provide such a rich collection of haunting illustrations." — Booklist. Poetry provides the best introduction to the marvels of the English language. This volume, collected...

The award-winning team behind A Great Big Cuddle—two former UK Children’s Laureates—reunite to present a collection of nursery rhymes both familiar and rediscovered.Honey for breakfast,Honey for tea.Honey for YOU,Honey for ME.Welcome to the vibrant world of nursery rhymes—from beloved playground sayings to forgotten gems....

Books, books, books! Judy’s got books on the brain as she prepares for a totally RARE trivia competition. Has reading always been this exciting?Judy Moody is in it to win it. Win the Book Quiz Blowout, that is. Judy and her brother, Stink, are...

Judy Moody is making a list and checking it twice, but all her brother, Stink, wants this year is snow.It hasn’t snowed on Christmas in Virginia in more than a hundred years, so what are the chances that that will change? Enter the new...

WWNDD? What Would Nancy Drew Do? Judy and her new friend, Mighty Fantaskey, take cues from their favorite sleuth as they search for a lost mood ring in a spooky attic.Judy Moody is freaky for Nancy Drew, the famous girl detective from the book...

As the crisp winds of winter approach, Ant is full of restless energy, while Honey Bee dreams of cozy hibernation. But even as their seasonal instincts pull them in different directions, these two unlikely insect pals discover that true friendship doesn't stop when the...

Judy can’t wait for her mischief to bear fruit when Stink discovers that his backyard science project is an overnight success. Hardy-har-har!Prankenstein strikes again! The Summer Science Showdown is just around the corner, and Stink is positive that he has the recipe for a...

Surprises are in store as Stink excavates his backyard in search of a relic from an extinct beast — and Judy lends him a little sleight of hand. Mega-chomp! Stink wants to make the find of the century.He’s on a dig, dig, digging quest...

Mighty righty Judy Moody is out of her element in this righty-to-lefty switcheroo just right for newly independent readers.Left-handers are creative. Left-handers are geniuses. Half of all cats are lefties! (Or so says Stink.) But Judy is a righty . . . and Judy...

Judy and her friends are on the playground when Jessica Finch overhears a fifth-grader talking. What!? There’s no such thing as the Tooth Fairy? Can that big kid be right? Luckily, Judy Moody is on the case! All she needs is one loose tooth,...

The forecast calls for a first crush after Stevie makes a wish for something new and daring in this authentic, funny Sisters Club adventure. As the middle sister in a family with three girls, Stevie Reel doesn’t know much about boys, and that’s always...

Merci Suárez navigates the trials and tribulations of middle school in this boxed set featuring the heartfelt trilogy from Meg Medina—Newbery Medalist and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.Merci Suárez Changes GearsEven without bossy classmate Edna and her extra community service as a scholarship...

In Meg Medina’s follow-up to her Newbery Medal–winning novel, Merci takes on seventh grade, with all its travails of friendship, family, love—and finding your rhythm. Seventh grade is going to be a real trial for Merci Suárez. For science she’s got no-nonsense Mr. Ellis,...

Celebrate twenty-five years of a tale of sweet justice in this anniversary edition. Farmer Duck is no ordinary duck. He cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm — all because the farm owner is too lazy...

For Merci Suárez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It’s a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but...

Get ready for a star-studded adventure with Waldo in Hollywood! This deluxe book is packed with bright, colorful pictures showing Waldo’s fun journey through movie sets, award shows, and busy red carpets. Can you find Waldo hiding in all twelve exciting scenes? Look closely...

Magic is on the loose—and so is Waldo! Wizard Whitebeard’s enchanted staff has vanished, and now it’s wreaking magical mayhem across time and space! From dragons sunbathing by the sea to robots in the Stone Age and dinosaurs stomping through the Wild West, things...

This is a story about a duck and mouse who get swallowed by a wolf, and then decide to live in his belly.Early one morning a mouse met a wolfand was quickly gobbled up.When a woeful mouse is swallowed by a wolf, he quickly...

From the celebrated picture-book team of M. T. Anderson and Kevin Hawkes comes a wistful, wondrous ode to the natural pleasures of peace and solitude.The boy lives alone at the End of the World, hunting treasure with old maps, finding fossils, whistling tunes, playing...

A thrilling graphic novel full of knights, magic, adventure—and a loyal lion! Based on a classic medieval story by Chrétien de Troyes, this version, retold by award-winning author M.T. Anderson and brought to life with exciting illustrations, follows the brave knight Yvain. He wants...

The award-winning work is reissued as a Candlewick Picture Book Biography.George Frideric Handel always knew what he liked. And he was never afraid to do what he liked — whether smuggling a clavichord into the attic, sneaking off at a duke’s castle to play...

In a brilliant performance worthy of the composer, M. T. Anderson and Petra Mathers present a picture-book biography of the singular Erik Satie.Throughout his life, Erik Satie wanted to make a new kind of music, a kind of music both very young and very...

Kids will flip for Maisy novelty books!From their tactile matte-and-gloss covers to the brief guidelines for parents on the back, these lift-the-flap, pull-the-tab favorites are sure to have instant appeal for both Maisy fans and grown-ups who love them.

Wow, look at the crowd! Maisy and friends play a rousing game of soccer in a read-aloud sure to have aspiring little players cheering.Maisy and her friends can’t wait to play soccer! Maisy puts on her uniform, laces up her sneakers, and heads to...

“Celebrates the joyous ritual in which the bathee jettisons the diaper and streaks to the tub to sculpt bubbles, practice swimming... and, incidentally, get cleaned up.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books It’s time for a bath! Whee! And Baby obliges, playing...

“Children will easily recognize the deep bond between the child and the beloved object... this offers a warm, comforting view of a toddler’s daily world.” — Booklist Anyone who's spent time with a toddler knows that few crises compare with the (even temporary) loss...

Newbery Medal Winner! Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters.Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons — in these pages, readers will meet them all. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his...

"Anyone with an interest in archaeology or in liars and braggarts will be drawn in by this slim biography of the hyper-imaginative Schliemann." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)From Newbery Medal-winning author Laura Amy Schlitz comes an engaging illustrated biography of Heinrich...

From 2008 Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz comes an exhilarating adventure — and a thoroughly original fairy who is a true force of nature. What would happen to a fairy if she lost her wings and could no longer fly? Flory, a young night fairy...

Orphaned and outspoken, Maud Flynn is stunned when the elegant Miss Hyacinth and her sisters choose to adopt her. But their affection comes with a hidden agenda: Maud is to play a part in their staged séances, posing as a ghostly child to swindle...

Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times best-selling fable about trusting the unexpected and making the extraordinary come true is now available in a movie tie-in edition.When a fortuneteller’s tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the...

From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and the power of words to spell the world. We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in...

Available in a paperback edition! The beloved 2014 Newbery Medal winner by former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Kate DiCamillo.It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming,...

Conceived by Kate DiCamillo and featuring enchanting illustrations by Jaime Kim, this nearly wordless graphic story follows a little girl in search of a friend.“La la la . . . la.” A little girl stands alone and sings, but hears no response. Gathering her...

It’s Christmas Eve on Deckawoo Drive, and Stella Endicott is filled with holiday spirit. Inspired to go caroling, she sets off in search of company—but her plans hit a few snags. Her brother Frank isn’t feeling spontaneous, the Watsons are distracted by a fruitcake...

Before she was a porcine wonder, she was simply a piglet—small, curious, and full of surprises. Mr. and Mrs. Watson lead a quiet, predictable life on Deckawoo Drive. That is, until the day an unexpected visitor arrives on their doorstep: a tiny piglet with...

Beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo and cartoonist Harry Bliss introduce some delightfully doggy dogs in a warm, funny tale of a timid pup who needs a friend.Rosie is a good dog and a faithful companion to her owner, George. She likes taking walks with George...