Poetry & Nursery Rhymes

Eleven complete Dr. Seuss stories at a great price, featuring performances by John Cleese, Billy Crystal, Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, Dustin Hoffman, John Lithgow, and more....

The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award–winning middle grade bestseller! Basketball and heartache share the court in this slam-dunk novel in verse.

All of our favorite trucks are back on the construction site - this time with a focus on team-building, friendship, and working together to make a big task seem small....

A collection of four fantastic stories from the best-selling picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler....

Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress....

This harrowing middle-grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town....

One hundred and one numbers race each other up the apple tree....

What begins with A? Aunt Annie's alligator! Learn the ABCs - the Dr. Seuss way....

From beloved powerhouse author Katherine Applegate comes The One and Only Ruby, starring the adorable baby elephant from the Newbery Medal-winning modern classic The One and Only Ivan and its bestselling sequel, The One and Only Bob....

Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as an act of survival—in a wrenching and transformative novel-in-verse....

Finally, Amira is 12. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for new responsibilities. And maybe old enough to go to school in Nyala - Amira's one true dream...

Suzanne Rhodes, a longtime poet and teacher, offers The Roar on the Other Side as an introductory guide to poetry for students (junior high and up). Rhodes easily communicates the joy of words to her listeners and helps them see how good poetry binds all seemingly--contradictory things together.

Hungry Holidays from that famished old lady! Listen to what happens as she swallows a host of Christmas items with hilarious results....

Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules - like "no making waves", "avoid eating in public," and "don't move so fast that your body jiggles"....

Ana Rosa is a blossoming young writer growing up in the Dominican Republic. At the young age of 12, she finds herself faced with turning points that will make up who she is....

Odessa is a beautiful mermaid who lives in the deep, blue ocean. One day while on a picnic, she and her best friends Angelina and Spike find a shiny diamond ring on the coral reefs. Odessa comes up with a genius plan to return the diamond ring to its owner. Find out what happens next....

One night in the ocean, the Pout-Pout Fish can't get to sleep! He's all ready for bed, but he just can't catch a snooze. When he asks his friends for advice, they're all sure they know what he should do - count sheep, use a pillow made of rocks, swim in circles - but nothing works....

The newest title in the New York Times best-selling How to Catch series will have children and parents excited to see if these characters can actually pull off catching a mermaid....

When Reena; her little brother, Luke; and their parents first move to Maine, Reena doesn't know what to expect. She's ready for beaches, blueberries, and all the lobster she can eat....

It's the literary equivalent of buried treasure! The audiobook edition features a cast of celebrity narrators who will bring these stories to life....

The romantic tale about the voyage of a seemingly ill-matched pair and the happiness they find together.

Set against the backdrop of WWII, this middle grade novel presents the dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW who’s processing the war as he works on Claire’s family farm....

Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977....

Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives....

This collection of 18 of Beatrix Potter's charming stories about Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tittlemouse, and the others have enchanted children for over a hundred years....

Moose the Grumpy Goose (A Rhyming Tale About Feeling) is a playful, rhyming tale that follows Moose, a lovable goose who just can’t shake his bad mood—no matter how sunny the farm gets! Each chapter sees Moose stomping through everyday upsets like noisy mornings and messy puddles, while kind friends on Willow Way Farm share simple tools for turning his frown upside down. Through gentle humor, catchy rhymes, and relatable mishaps, young readers learn: Emotional Awareness: Identifying and naming grumpy or sad feelings. Self-Regulation: Practicing calming breaths and talking through ...

As school begins in 1963, Cooper Dale wrestles with what it means to “shine” for a black girl in a predominantly white community near Pittsburgh. Set against the historic backdrop of the Birmingham church bombing, the Kennedy assassination, and Beatlemania, Radiant is a finely crafted novel in verse about race, class, faith, and finding your place in a loving family and a complicated world.

James Krüss ist ein Phänomen! Fast jeder kennt die Schnaps trinkenden Möpse oder den gereimten Löwen. Krüss’ Poesie zeichnet sich durch lautmalerische Leichtigkeit, feinen Humor und unbändige Fantasie aus. In seinem Leierkasten sind Gedichte zum Lachen und Schmunzeln, Mitreimen und Genießen versammelt – ein zeitloser Klassiker für Jung und Alt, den Wolfgang Völz und Ilse Werner mit Herz und Humor zum Klingen bringen.

From Antarctica’s biting katabatic gusts to Hawai‘i’s sweet-smelling moani, discover fourteen winds of the world through poetry, scientific facts, and transporting illustrations.

Babble is to speak rapidly and randomly as did the people at the tower of Babel when they lost their ability to speak to one another. Here in my babbling book of poetry I unite together foreign languages of different worlds scattered far and wide