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Favorite nursery rhymes and songs illustrated by Happy artist Mies van Hout! With CD!Mies van Hout's inimitable way with animals is on vibrant display in this collection of favorite nursery rhymes and songs for young children. From the demure kitty of the title to frogs, horses, sheep, mice, and more, this is sure to be a favorite from story time to bedtime. The accompanying CD features a warm maternal voice and gentle guitar to send little on...

Getting dressed can be an adventure! After taking a bath, a boy must put on his clothes--but where are they? Children as well as adults will recognize the mystery of the lost sock. Author-illustrator Marijke ten Cate turns this universal theme into a lively hide-and-seek picture book. Each colorful spread is full of captivating characters at play. Look closely, and you will see clothes hidden among the jumble of images and objects. The illustr...

When a tiny mouse sets out to sea for a life of adventure, he finds himself in a tough situation aboard a ship captained by a cat, before making his escape and returning home to settle down

Engelstalige editie van Nederland + Duizend dingen over Nederland. Holland - a land full of surprises, strange traditions, free-spirited people, and a rich history. With the eye of an outsider but a warm heart for the country that became her new home, award-winning illustrator Charlotte Dematons paints in loving detail everything that makes The Netherlands so Dutch. From bike-riding retirees to a grandmother with her walker, from skating on...

Little known yet fascinating facts about animals brought to life by the artist behind The Tree House and The Island. If a camel gets angry, he will throw up green gastric juice over you. A sloth moves so slowly that green algae grows in his fur. Even a blind chameleon takes the color of its surroundings. Bologna Ragazzi Award winner Marije Tolman, creator of The Tree House and The Island, illustrates in her distinctive style curious, funny, ...

All four seasons for preschoolers and early readers featuring the adventures of a little girl and her puppy. Each season has its special joys and all are explored in the Lily and Trooper series, now combined into a single volume families can enjoy throughout the year.

A young girl follows her dream to become a mermaid On the last day of vacation, Mia finds something special on the beach--a mermaid's shoes! When she puts them on her feet, she knows she has found her true identity. She's really a mermaid! She makes her own mermaid's tail and goes on a quest to find a place to fulfill her destiny. Is it the local aquarium? Maybe the river that runs through the town? In the end, this mermaid finds the perfect...

Beloved nursery rhymes and lullabies with gentle, inviting illustrations. With CD. The creator of Happy and Friends illustrates some of childhood's most beloved songs from "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to "The Teddy Bear's Picnic, " and from "I'm a Little Teapot" to "The Wheels on the Bus" in this book and CD set. Also included: "Old Macdonald Had a Farm, " "Swan Swam Over the Sea, " "If You're Happy and You Know It, " "Five Little Ducks, " ...

Meet the characters on my street with this fun rhyming board book At No. 1, Mrs. McQueen Her house is large and painted green, And inside there resides a Queen, With royal ears and regal chin, She always wears a noble grin. For every child born to one of her friends, Annette Fienieg used to make a colorfully decorated tee shirt featuring a character you would fall in love with. Now it is time to introduce those creations--Mrs. McQueen F...

A zoo book that reinvents a way to look at the animals When you visit at the zoo, Do you wonder like I do . . . Why does a giraffe have spots of brown, And do zebra's stripes go up, or down? The wonder and variety of various zoo animals is explored in this book as full of questions as Kipling's Elephant's Child. From an elephant to a peacock, a rhinoceros to a flamingo, an inquisitive child and his grandfather visit and ponder each animal...

The Schuberts, who have a knack for capturing expressive animals, are back. This time in "Opposites, " the family has a blast as it presents contrasts far beyond big and small. Full color.

This silly circus celebrates that everyone has something special! From the author/illustrator of Where Is My Sock? comes this backyard cross between a circus and a county fair. Who has the most pointy nose? The longest ears? The dirtiest hands? The biggest bottom? The readers are the winners as each animal is recognized individually and then all together in one splendid celebratory spread. The question format makes the book even more fun and...

When the Man in the Clouds creates a beautiful painting, people begin to make a pilgrimage up his mountain to see it for themselves--the misfits find it especially comforting. An art expert tells the artist that it is very valuable and he begins to think about differently, determined to protect it rather than share it. Finally, he sees that his greed and possessiveness has changed the way he sees the picture so he tosses it into the fire and l...

Giving outlines and suggesting images from Ingrid and Dieter Schubert's The Umbrella, The Umbrella Doodle Book is like having the Schubert's create art collaboratively with you. Now Ingrid and Dieter Schubert invite everyone to paint, draw and color with them and make their own Umbrella excursion.

Goossens' "Right to Play" raises awareness of the organization whose mission is to improve the lives of children in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world by using the power of sport and play for development, health, and peace. 144 pp.

Fifteen-year-old Dolf uses a prototype time machine and gets stuck in the Middle Ages. Trying to find his way back to the twentieth century, he joins a children's crusade of almost ten thousand children on their way to the Holy Land. Dolf helps the children defy the terrible mountains, conquer disease and fight evil knights. Slowly, Dolf begins to realize that the real danger does not lurk behind the next mountaintop, but rather within the cru...

Turtle has a problem: He can't go to sleep! His friends try to help him out: Bat makes him a cup of hot milk. Bird sings a song. Bat gives him a pacifier and Deer thinks Turtle needs to be cradled. Nothing works.Turtle knows what would help him: to be driven around. But none of the animals have a car. Then Deer comes up with a cunning plan... "Hush, Little Turtle" is reminiscent of Rinck's and Van der Linden's "I Feel a Foot.

Tom's father is afraid of animals. Butterflies, snails, squirrels--they alarm him so much, he won't even come out of the house. Tom decides to take drastic measures and heads to the pet shop. First he trains a polar bear and sneaks it into the house. Then he smuggles in a tiger, a squid, a tortoise, a snake, two peacocks, three hippos and a small flock of flamingos. His father doesn't seem to notice at first but learns that his son's creativit...

Goossens delivers a coming-of-age story with a twist--a teen from the Netherlands discovers that it's a wonderful life in small-town America.

Paper-over-board novelty book with a non-removeable ribbon that shows Oliver the egg on one side and Oliver the chick on the other in penultimate spread. "Oliver was an egg. There was nothing he could do about it. He could roll to one side. He could roll to the other. He could even stand on his head. But he was simply an egg and that was that. Until one day, everything changed because miracles happen.