Kathryn Lasky
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can Jo Bell spin a web big enough to catch . . . a criminal? The world's friendliest spiders take center stage in bestselling author Kathryn Lasky's latest book about The Deadlies!They're sweet and friendly . . . but they just happen to be super toxic. The Deadlies are the world's most misunderstood family of spiders. Kicked out of home after home, all the Deadlies want is to settle down in a cozy web with no exterminators around.Now they've found...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture-book biography of young Isaac Newton, who "discovered" gravity, developed calculus, and uncovered the secrets of light and color"--
4) Pirate Bob
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of a pirate, named simply Bob, whose job is to cut the steering cables and cripple the ships he and his shipmates will loot.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural evolution.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having been discovered, a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders must flee their cozy home in a symphony hall and go searching for a new place to live.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lucille is upset that she can not go camping with her father and older siblings, she and her mother decide to go camping inside the house.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucille has so much trouble getting her snowsuit on that she is almost too tired to go outside and join her brother and sister playing in the snow.
11) Lunch bunnies
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Clyde, the rabbit, is ready to start school, but after talking with his brother, he is worried about what will happen at lunchtime.
12) Sugaring time
Author
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.
13) Starring Lucille
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
25 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucille's brother and sister try to upstage her during her ballet performance on her fourth birthday, but they do not succeed.
14) Porkenstein
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Lonely after his two brothers are eaten by the Big Bad Wolf, Dr. Smart Pig invents a wolf-proof friend to keep him company on Halloween.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
In this take-off on the Sleeping Beauty story, two bored boys awake before others in an enchanted castle and set off to find a handsome prince, only to end up with an ingenious inventor named Daniel Bernoulli. Includes a note on the real Bernoulli.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Buster, a walnut orb weaving spider, enlists the help of Jo Beth, one of a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders, to help stop humans who are stealing from the rare books room of the Boston Public Library, where the spiders live.
18) Two bad pilgrims
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Brothers Francis and Johnny Billington take issue with history's account of their troublemaking ways aboard the Mayflower and in the New World, as they tell their side of the story to Standish Brewster, professor of Pilgrimology at Plimouth University.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
41 pages : color illustrations , color map ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of John Muir, naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club, whose travels, speeches and writings led directly to the creation of the Yosemite National Park in 1890 and other national parks that followed.
20) Mommy's hands
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Young children describe the various things their hands and their mothers' hands do when they are together throughout the different seasons of the year.