New Releases by Teri Sloat

Scritch! Scratch! What was that? This Halloween, give readers a "safe scare" with a rhyming picture book about a group of kids outrunning a witch's itchy spell, perfect for little ones looking for a dose of extra-eerie fun! Scritch! Scratch! What was that? The witch! She's in the pumpkin patch! In the sky, through the pumpkin patch, between the trees...the kids in this story have to be crafty if they want to avoid the witch and her spell! But she is determined to keep them on their toes with a few tricks up her sleeve... Delightfully eccentric illustrations and silly-scary rhymes make for a fresh take on the traditional Halloween story in this picture book from Teri Sloat.

One goes zip,two go zoom.Three witches glide from room to room. So begins this witchy counting story. Counting up from 1 to 10 and back down again, ten witches jump on a broom--and then fall off one by one! Written in pitch-perfect rhyme, and full of fun read-aloud energy that will have kids memorizing lines and clamoring to read the book again and again, this book hits the mash-up sweet spot between an important concept and Halloween fun!

"The heartwarming tale of one little lamb's first snowy adventure"--

When a child looks up to find drawings on the ceiling of a cave, she wonders how they were painted. Planets that spin, the birds and the beasts, woman and man--how did the old man in the sky paint it all? Based on the 1879 discovery of ceiling paintings in Spain's Altamira Cave, this imaginative story expresses the awe of contemplating the creation of the world and locating beauty in an unexpected place. Children will revel in this timeless tale with truly breathtaking images.

After a series of mishaps involving crumbs, drips, splatters, and spills, the neat and tidy house that Mom left is a mess.

Christmas poems bearing wishes for peace throughout the world "When Santa returns from making his rounds, The letters he’s answered lie drifted in mounds. He calls the North Wind to blow them around, And pieces of Christmas come swirling down." Each of the stamps on the letters to Santa paint a different, enchanting picture of holiday spirit all over the world. Crocodiles stop at crocodilian cookie shops and javelinas hop at a jingling jamboree! In these fanciful verses, animals from Africa to Antarctica celebrate Christmas in their own very special ways.

Farmer Brown shears his sheep and has their wool made into yarn, but after they beg to have it back he knits the yarn into sweaters for them. Silly antics, toe-tapping verse, a clever solution, and some mighty determined sheep will have young readers clamoring for this story again and again. Full-color illustrations.

Farmer Brown heard thunder drumming. Lightning flashed; the air was humming. "Look out," he cried. "A twister's coming " The twister roared, the twister grew, Horns and hooves and white wool blew, While fur and feet and feathers flew But this is nothing compared to what happens when the twister drops Farmer Brown and his animals back to earth Now pigs are mooing, cats are cooing...Will his farm ever be right again?

Set on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme describes the silly consequences of an old woman's fishy diet.

"Every single joke is illustrated in full shocking color, and every page is full of things to look at that are just as funny and just as bad as the jokes!"--Page 4 of cover

Farmer Brown and all his animals are ready for sleep, but a tiny whiny humming sound keeps them awake.

Each page features a letter of the alphabet, drawn as both a capital and a lowercase letter, decorated with pictures of objects beginning with that letter.

Illustrations of people and animals introduce the numbers one through ten and then, counting by tens, move on up to 100.

Ananak, a Yupik Eskimo woman, needs ripe berries for the fall feast, but, finding only dried up crowberries, she still manages to provide luscious cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, and salmonberries.