Game Time Keep an eye on the clock as the Huskies and the Falcons gear up for their championship soccer match. Weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds--it's all game time
Roald Dahl fans will rejoice at the opportunity to bring their favorite books and characters to life. Five of Dahl’s hugely popular, beloved books have been adapted into winning plays for children. With useful tips on staging, props, and costumes, these plays can be produced with a minimum amount of resources and experience. Teachers, parents, and children everywhere will recognize Quentin Blake’s appealing classic cover art and will find these easy-to-perform plays to be a great source of entertainment!
Get in on all the adorable action and learn to read with Teensy Weensy Animals! Discover the tiniest and cutest animals from around the world. Teensy Weensy Animals will introduce kids to penguins, octopuses, and sloths all smaller than the palm of their hands! Featuring full-color photos of these fascinating and adorable animals and simple and engaging text. All Scholastic readers are vetted by experts and feature a glossary.
Roald Dahl's children's classic will be rediscovered with wonder and delight in this handsome gift edition with all-new black-and-white illustrations by Caldecott Honor Book artist Lane Smith (who also designed the characters for the Disney animated film). How James escapes from his miserable life with two nasty aunts and becomes a hero to his new insect family, including Miss Spider, the Old-Green-Grasshopper, the Centipede (with his 21 pairs of gorgeous boots), is "Dahl-icious fantasy at its best"This newly-illustrated edition of an avowed children's favorite has all the makings of a classic match-up: Milne had Shepard, Carroll had Tenniel, and now Dahl has Smith...author and illustrator were made for each other, and it's of little consequence that it took almost 35 years for them to meet" --"Kirkus.
Down the rabbit hole . . . I'm spending the day with my best friends, Frankie and Robin, and -- UGH -- snobby Penny. I'm not expecting anything magical to happen, until Frankie falls into a mysterious hole behind Penny's house . . . and we all wind up in the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! I've visited fairy tales before. But in Wonderland, everything is topsy-turvy. There are potions that make you grow, cakes that make you shrink, bossy caterpillars, and a horrible Queen of Hearts who wants to put us on trial. RELATED SUBJECTS: Magic and Supernatural , Problem Solving , Adventures and Adventurers
Stick Man is about to start his greatest adventure yet - and you're invited! With puzzles to solve, jokes to tell and quizzes to complete, you can help Stick Man find his way home and have lots of fun along the way. Colouring pages, games, songs, join-the-dots and much, much more, mean the Stick Man annual is the perfect gift for every child. From the hugely popular creators of The Gruffalo.
Charlie Bucket has WON Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it. In a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise, Charlie and his family find themselves in splendid orbit around the Earth. A daring adventure has begun, with the one and only Mr Willy Wonka leading the way.
When a video frames Jackson Greene and his friends for a crime they didn't commit, Gang Greene battles the blackmailers in this sequel to the acclaimed The Great Greene Heist. Jackson Greene is riding high. He is officially retired from conning, so Principal Kelsey is (mostly) off his back. His friends have great new projects of their own. And as he's been hanging out a lot with Gaby de la Cruz, he thinks maybe, just maybe, they'll soon have their first kiss. Then Jackson receives a link to a faked security video that seems to show him and the rest of Gang Greene flooding the school gym. The thugs behind the video threaten to pass it to the principal--unless Jackson steals an advance copy of the school's toughest exam. So Jackson devises a three-part plan to foil the blackmailers, clear his friends' names for good, and trap the true bad guys along the way. As Gang Greene executes another multistep caper full of twists and turns, they learn that sometimes it takes a thief to catch a cheat. RELATED SUBJECTS: Middle School , Cooperation and Teamwork , Romantic Relationships
MAGIC SCHOOL BUS: GUIDE TO PLANET EARTH explores the wonders of our planet. Packed with illustrations, fun facts, and vivid photographs, this Nonfiction guide offers a thrilling adventure with Ms. Frizzle. Learn all about Earth with Ms. Frizzle and her class. INSIDE THE EARTH taught thousands of kids about our planet, and now the brand new Magic School Bus Guide series can update readers on a host of curriculum-friendly topics. Full-color photographs of the different parts of Earth fill this book, alongside illustrations of Ms. Frizzle and her class. Young readers are in for a wild ride as they join Ms. Frizzle and all of the other students aboard the Magic School Bus! Contributors: Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, the author and illustrator of the Magic School Bus books, have collaborated for twenty years, bringing humor and true kidlike curiosity to science and learning. BOOKLIST heralded Ms. Frizzle as "the wackiest, wisest teacher in picture books." Two Magic School Bus titles have been named SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL Best Books of the Year, and they have won countless state book awards, from New York to Nebraska. RELATED SUBJECTS: Earth , Earth Science , Landforms and Topography , Discovery and Learning
