New Releases by Margie Palatini

Experience the world from a monkey’s perspective via the video camera on its head in this fun and exciting Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read book in the Critter-Cam series! Through a video camera positioned on the monkey’s head, readers can follow along from the monkey’s point of view as it slides down a giraffe’s neck, meets a lion by mistake, and shares a coconut with a friend! Go, Monkey, go! Dan Yaccarino’s bright art and Margie Palatini’s simple text create a dynamic world that beginning readers will want to visit over and over again!

"Experience the world from a puppy's perspective via the video camera on its head."--]cProvided by publisher.

"A shark documents its adventures in the ocean with an action camera"--

"A kitty documents its adventures around the house with an action camera"--

"Through a video camera positioned on the puppy's head, readers will follow along from the puppy's point of view as it tries to catch a ball, follow birds, and dig, but gets a surprise instead! Go, Puppy, go! Dan Yaccarino's bright art and Margie Palatini's simple text create a dynamic world that beginning readers will want to visit over and over again!"--

The publisher and author of Under a Pig Tree seem to be having communication issues. The author has written a clear, no-nonsense history of figs. But the publisher is sure she meant pigs. After all, what's the difference between two measly letters? What results is a hilarious illustrated history of pigs, from the earliest times ("Pigs were presented as 'medals' to the winners of the first Olympics") to the present day ("There is nothing better than enjoying a cup of tea or glass of milk with one of those famous Pig Newtons"). The author, needless to say, is not happy about this "little mix-up" and makes her feelings very clearly known—by scrawling all over the book! With sticky notes from the publisher, angry scribbles from the author, wrinkles, and pages askew, Under a Pig Tree is a playful peek into a book in "midproduction" and a humorous look at the consequences of small mistakes, by industry pro Margie Palatini and up-and-coming talent Chuck Groenink.

A humorous naptime book for baby (and sleepy mama, too) from best-selling author Margie Palatini and award-winning illustrator Dan Yaccarino. Includes Read Aloud/Read to Me feature where available. Readers embark on a fast-paced chase through every room in the house as we follow Mommy on her quest to settle Baby down for nap. Dashing from family room to living room, both on the table and under it, through the kitchen and even hiding in the laundry basket, this hilarious romp culminates with mommy and baby collapsed - AT LAST -- fast asleep in a chair.

Lots of kids have a sweet tooth. But not like Stewart's. His very loud sweet tooth wants what it wants, when it wants it...and lets everyone know about it. Stewart's sweet tooth screams for cake at weddings, for candy during class, and torments him at the movies. Stewart has had enough, and he's bringing out the big guns -- a carrot. Can he stand up to the most annoying sweet tooth in history?

When tooth fairy Edith B. Cuspid finds her friend Bernice Sparklestein, a fairy godmother whose work is legendary, having a very bad wand day, she tries to cheer her up by suggesting Bernice try other fairy jobs.

When Goldilocks, running from the three bears, falls down a rabbit hole and hurts her foot, a family of hares tries to help but she proves to be a very loud, demanding, and tenacious guest.

Retells Aesop's fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.

When Hilda Mae Heifer's trademark "moo" starts sounding even worse, the other animals decide she is lonely and hold auditions to find her some singing partners.

When Gorgonzola the dinosaur learns that everyone runs from him to avoid his smell, rather than out of fear, he is grateful to the little bird who shows him how to brush his teeth and wash.

Hilda Mae Heifer has lost her melodic mi-mi-moo! A clunk on the head, and now Hilda's not sure if she should mew, oink, or honk. With the help of the animals on the farm, will Hilda once again be able to sing her sensational moo?

At the urging of her family, Louise, a young alligator, tries hard to kick her biting habit.

Why the cheese stand alone? In this hilarious riff on the favorite nursery rhyme "The Farmer in the Dell," readers will discover what really happened to that hunk of cheddar.

Those two bad boys -- Willy and Wally -- are still bad. Bad. Bad. Really, really bad. And now they have two big bad sweet tooths. When the baker's cookie runs off, these newly cloaked private eyes, "Willis and Wallace," see their chance to Get Cookie! But this is one smart cookie, and the pair may require a plan B. Can this terrible and terribly hungry duo satisfy their hankering before their new disguises land them in ill-fated trouble? Margie Palatini and Henry Cole reunite for a rollicking fairy-tale follow-up to their hilarious bad boys.

According to his bossy sisters, Shelly is taking far too long to develop, but Shelly will emerge from his shell when he's good and ready. But when will that be? Full color.

As in their celebrated "Earthquack!," Palatini and Moser combine their talents to create an raucous retelling of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" that's ideal for reading aloud and reinforcing math concepts. Full color.

Rather than eat his boring old ham and cheese sandwich, Zak conjures up Lou, a waitress who serves him a delectable feast for the imagination.

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Gritch the Witch is not pleased when her sister, Mag the Hag, shows up early for the party.

Moose thinks he has all his Christmas preparations taken care of, but at the last minute he must come up with a substitute for the Christmas tree.

Henry gets his toe stuck in the tub spout while taking a bath, and everyone who tries to free him gets stuck as well.

When everyone in Moose's family arrives at Moose Lodge for the big reunion, things don't go quite as Moose had planned. Just when he thinks it can't get any worse, a swarm of moosekitos starts biting. Full color.

After many unsuccessful attempts one morning to control his unruly hair, Oliver and his family think that they have solved the problem--until he gets to school and finds that it is class picture day. Full color.

Despite repeated difficulties, a large ape tries various approaches to selling Ape-On Cosmetics and his persistence pays off in an unexpected way.

When her broom breaks down, Gritch the Witch visits a foxy salesman in search of a new Zoom Broom but ends up with something unexpected.

Alfred E. Elf thinks it's high time Santa face the fax, weave a web, dish the disk -- and face the new millennium in high-tech style. But what happens when the computer crashes and there's a huge elf error?Margie Palatini and Mike Reed have concocted a hilarious story that also provides a reassuring message for today's hyper times: even though the world is fast-changing, the magic of Christmas endures.