Showing titles in Stories in Verse

In this story the child is invited on a journey where honest discourse and communication result in clarity. The child and the main character, Art Fine, get to know each other in the story. The child's observations are voiced and received while Art Fine does the same. "My Name Is Art Fine" begins with a child who is curious about who they are encountering. It becomes clear that the child has questions regarding the information being shared.

Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of writing about dying languages, like your mom, you and I saved one instead?"

Be afraid, be very afraid of Terrifying Tales, the sixth volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading. Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita...

The rhyme Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? is included with steps for sprouting your own seeds indoors. A bonus of the apple cycle from seed to apple is also included.

Brought to you by Penguin. One day a WORRY comes to stay and simply will not go away! "Whenever he was worried or whenever there was drama, Alex Allen's brain produced . . . A living breathing Llama!" Alex Allen, like lots of children, sometimes worried about things - like dancing badly or...

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Boston Globe–Horn Book Poetry Award Winner An “imaginative and moving” (The Horn Book, starred review) portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poems by ALSC Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner Carole...

Tales of Whimsy, Verses of Woe is quite possibly the most dangerous book of poetry ever written. Do you dare? It’s so good it will make you sneeze. What becomes of a girl who absolutely detests the color green? What about a king who joins a punk band? And the little boy who calls up God on the telephone? Monsters, bears, wizards, and talking vegetables—This book has something for everyone. Winner of the prestigious Baldersquash Medal, which honors the very best in highfalutin nonsense.

Omalvus is a snail who loves to draw with his rainbow-colored slime trail. He is very proud of his beautiful, brightly colored pictures. His peaceful life is one day disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious brown slime that is ruining his colorful drawings. Each day. he creates a new drawing. and each day, when he is not looking, his drawing is destroyed. Oh no! He must find out what or who is responsible for this destruction.

It’s Christmas, and this Odd Dog is running out of time to find the perfect present for her pal. But when she meets a new friend who needs helps, she realises that gifts might not be the most important thing about Christmas after all.

Once again the Old Gray Goose delivers a collection of funny, heartwarming tales perfected over six decades of campfires and thousands of enthusiastic young campers as part of his amazing lifelong work with the YMCA. Here is the definitive collection of down-home songs and stories for children of all ages, affectionately told by a compassionate man who genuinely cares about young people.

A fox's quest to search for food, turns out to be a life-changing lesson in how to be good. Follow the mischievous Fox in his journey and enjoy reading about his many encounters with his virtuous neighbors that do not only speak, but love to rhyme. Playful storytelling that rhymes all the way, musical dialogues, entertaining situations, and moral lessons to be learned from every chapter are all guaranteed to make you come back again and again. An instant classic!

When a kind young boy helps a strange-looking bird, a beautiful friendship forms. But what these two friends don't realise is that one is a young knight . . . and the other a young dragon! What will they do when they discover they are enemies and destined to FIGHT? The Dragon and the Nibblesome...

It's not fair! All Little Owl wants is to go to bed at a reasonable hour, like his friends do. But no . . . Mama and Papa say little owls have to stay up late and play. So Little Owl spends all night jumping on his bed, playing on the jungle gym, and doing tricks on his skateboard - but he's hooting mad about it ! Children who have a hard time going to bed will love this fun twist on the universal dilemma.

Tante filastrocche per tutti i gusti da leggere prima di andare a letto o per divertirsi in compagnia. Il divertimento è assicurato!

There are 10 fat sausages sizzling in the pan, but they’re going fast! Can you help count the sausages as they disappear - and can you see where they go? A book to stimulate observation and discussion, and an enjoyable introduction to number bonding.

A wonderful collection of nursery rhymes and childhood songs, verses and curiosities. Here you have international favourites like ‘Humpty Dumpty’ and Irish favourites like ‘Janey Mac’. There are great songs to sing, from ‘Mocking Bird’ to ‘Are Ye Right There, Michael?’. Rhymes to bounce baby on the knee, like ‘Horsie, Horsie’, rhymes that are just fun and nonsense, like ‘Hickory, Dickory, Dock’ and ‘Skinny Malink’.

The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab is a horseshoe crab adventure with a happy ending. This audiobook has a whimsical, rhyming style, and portrays horseshoe crabs exhibiting behaviors that they commonly use in real life. It's the perfect choice for children three to 10 years old. It also is a great tool for teachers who are studying marine life, tidepools, or coastal sea animals. Although two horseshoe crabs are the central characters, periwinkles, limpets, barnacles, and green and Jonah crabs are also portrayed in the story.

If you have ever enjoyed The Gruffalo, you might be amused by this fan homage to that wonderful work. If you haven't, do that first. The Gruffalo is for children zero to five years old. Buffalo Tiger is for six year olds and up. Both works are quite short and ultimately based on a Chinese folk tale about a fox and a tiger. Buffalo Tiger offers a solution to a special challenge of rhyming with "tiger" and adds a few nuances along the way. It invokes the world of insects, whereas The Gruffalo narrates from the world of larger animals.

Toma/ve/haz un viaje alrededor del mundo para descubrir una amplia variedad de diferentes formaciones terrestres y características geológicas de la Tierra a través del verso rítmico de Esta tierra, es tu país. En el viaje encontrarás planicies, mecetas/altiplanos y colinas onduladas. Descubre como un arroyo puede crear un cañón o como la lava forma un archipiélago. Lee en voz alta y descubre nuevo terreno al pasar de cada página.

Un poema de Lewis Carroll que cuenta, en ocho actos, las aventuras de una tripulación de marineros que se embarca en la búsqueda del peligrosísimo Snark.