New Releases by Adam Gamble

Making basic numbers fun to learn, this board book teaches kids to count to 10 using famous Florida icons and landmarks depicted in whimsical illustrations. This concept book is a terrific way to introduce young children to a cherished destination while easing them to sleep at naptime or bedtime. Exploring Florida, this counting book celebrates many of the Sunshine State’s most famous features, including the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf Coast, the Keys, the Everglades, Miami, Orlando, orange groves, beaches, boating, tropical fish, and much more.

Making basic numbers fun to learn, this board book teaches kids to count to 10 using famous Maine icons and landmarks depicted in whimsical illustrations. This concept book is a terrific way to introduce young children to cherished destinations while easing them to sleep at naptime or bedtime. Rocky coastlines, quaint seaside villages, lovely beaches, whitewater rafting, and Mount Katahdin—all things that make Maine special—are explored in this playful counting book.

Making basic numbers fun to learn, this board book teaches kids to count to 10 using famous Boston icons and landmarks depicted in whimsical illustrations. This concept book is a terrific way to introduce young children to cherished destinations while easing them to sleep at naptime or bedtime. Covering unique aspects of Boston, including Charles River boaters, Boston Harbor, the USS Constitution, the skyline, and marathon runners, this colorful board book explores the places and things that make Beantown special.

Making basic numbers fun to learn, this board book teaches kids to count to 10 using famous Chicago icons and landmarks depicted in whimsical illustrations. This concept book is a terrific way to introduce young children to a cherished destination while easing them to sleep at naptime or bedtime. Highlighting unique places and structures in Chicago, including Navy Pier, the Water Tower, the Field Museum of Natural History, and famous skyscrapers, this book is an exciting way to learn to count while celebrating many things that make the Windy City special.

A day in the life of a pilot is full of discovery and adventure! Find out what it takes for an airplane to get ready for flight. Your toddler will discover what it’s like to be an airplane pilot, flight attendant, air traffic controller, and much, much more! Climb aboard a jumbo jet and spend the day high in the sky above the clouds. Children of all ages will embark on an adventure as they soar with twin engines and propellers. This book is the perfect gift for future pilots everywhere, for birthdays, baby showers, housewarming and going away parties. With the Good Night Our World series, toddlers and preschool-age kids can build listening and memory skills by identifying famous landmarks and the distinct character of real places. Perfect for bedtime or naptime, reading simple, soothing phrases to your infant, toddler or preschooler will help them fall gently to sleep. Our readers love that their child will pick a favorite portion of the story to read along with you, and on top of that, these classic board books were built to last! Made from thick paperboard construction, it was designed with your kids in mind. Introduce stories of exploration to your little one using colorful illustrations and distinct vocabulary with Good Night Books, and be sure to look through our entire line of kids picture books about other vehicles like race cars, fire engines, dump trucks, and many more! Surprise your future pilot today with Good Night Planes!

Making basic numbers fun to learn, these board books teach kids to count to 10 using famous icons and landmarks from cities and states across North America. Featuring whimsical illustrations, these concept books are a terrific way to introduce young children to cherished destinations while easing them to sleep at naptime or bedtime. All the best that San Francisco has to offer—the city’s iconic cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, Coit Tower, Golden Gate Park, and the nearby Redwood trees—is included in this playful counting book.

Making basic numbers fun to learn, these board books teach kids to count to 10 using famous icons and landmarks from cities and states across North America. Featuring whimsical illustrations, these concept books are a terrific way to introduce young children to cherished destinations while easing them to sleep at naptime or bedtime. A tour of the nation’s capitol—the National Mall, the Potomac River, the Smithsonian museums, the White House, the Supreme Court, the Capitol building, and many of Washinton, DC''s monuments—this counting book celebrates the district’s numerous exciting and unique destinations.

Making basic numbers fun to learn, these board books teach kids to count to 10 using famous icons and landmarks from cities and states across North America. Featuring whimsical illustrations, these concept books are a terrific way to introduce young children to cherished destinations while easing them to sleep at naptime or bedtime. All the best that Yosemite National Park has to offer is included in this playful, yet educational counting book.

Howdy Partner! This books features some of San Antonio’s most cherished places including, The San Antonio River Walk, The Alamo, San Antonio Zoo and Aquarium, Schlitterbahn Water Park, Brackenridge Park, Natural Bridge Wild Ranch, Caverns, Tex-Mex, Mariachi bands, and the San Antonio Spurs.

Touching upon some of South Carolina’s most beloved places and attractions, this delightful board book will lull young readers to sleep while enjoying a scenic tour of Hilton Head, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Greenville, Pawley’s Island, lighthouses, shrimp boats, fishing, local foods, plantations, sea life, Riverbank Zoo, and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Counting across America has never been so much fun! Featured in the whimsical illustrations of this board book, children will delight in discovering some of the nation’s most iconic sites, including famous bridges, monuments, mountains, wildlife, redwood trees, American flags, buildings, farms animals, and more.

Welcome to Kentucky! A celebration of the Bluegrass State, this delightful board book takes young readers on a tour of Kentucky’s most famous and beloved icons, including the Mammoth Caves, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Louisville Slugger Museum, Newport Aquarium, Black Mountain, University of Kentucky, Kentucky State Fair, Louisville Zoo, Belle of Louisville riverboat, and Dinosaur World.

Welcome to South Dakota! This colorful board book takes young readers on a tour South Dakota’s most treasured destinations, including Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Deadwood, Mount Rushmore, Badlands National Park, Black Hills National Forest, Wind Cave National Park, Missouri River, Falls Park, Corn Palace, fishing, hiking, wildlife, and the Great Plains Zoo.

Good Night Brooklyn includes Coney Island, the Brooklyn Bridge, Prospect Park, Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn Nets, New York Islanders, Brooklyn Public Library, and much more. Covering all aspects of Brooklyn, this inspirational board book celebrates this unique New York City borough in every way imaginable. This book is part of the bestselling Good Night Our World series, which includes hundreds of titles exploring iconic locations and exciting, child-friendly themes. Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for North America''s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions as rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.

Beginning Rails 4 is a book that will guide you from never having programmed with Ruby, to having a Rails application built and deployed to the web. You’ll learn how to combine all the components of Rails to develop your own web applications. You will use test driven development to make sure your application works exactly like you expect. You will learn how to use Git for source control and best practice techniques to create applications like a pro. Essential, and often-missed, information on testing and learning to program with Ruby are also covered. This book is well suited for someone with little to no Ruby or Rails experience, or possibly even someone with no experience developing web applications at all. Beginning Rails 4 does assume a basic familiarity with the web and typical web terms, but doesn’t require you to be an expert of these. This book will springboard your journey into web application development, and show you how much fun building web applications with Ruby on Rails can be. Learn to create Rails applications from the bottom up Learn the basics of the Ruby programming language Completely updated for Rails 4, including new information on turbo links, etc. Beginning Rails 4 gently guides you through designing your application, writing tests for the application, and then writing the code to make your application work as expected. What you’ll learn Learn the basics of the Ruby programming language Learn the components of Rails, and how to leverage them to build rich web applications Build a good foundation so you can move on to more advanced techniques Learn the basics of databases and how to use them to store and retrieve your data Use git source control and contribute to open source on Github Deploy your application to the web so others can use it Who this book is for Beginning Rails 4 is for anyone who wants to learn to quickly build applications, and deploy them to the web. No matter your experience level you’ll learn something from this book. Table of Contents Introducing the Rails Framework Getting Started Getting Something Running Introduction to the Ruby Language Working with a Database: Active Record Advanced Active Record: Enhancing Your Models Action Pack: Working with the View and the Controller Advanced Action Pack JavaScript and CSS Sending and Receiving Email Testing Your Application Internationalization Deploying Your Rails Applications Appendix A: Databases 101 Appendix B: The Rails Community Appendix C: Git

This charming board book invites young readers to an exploration of everything the great state of Maryland offers. From the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore''s Inner Harbor, this book leaves no crab unturned, including the Ocean City Boardwalk, Maryland Science Center, National Aquarium, B&O Railroad Museum, Assateague Island, Dentzel Carousel, Maryland Zoo, Fort McHenry, US Naval Academy, and more.

Say goodnight to Santa Claus and the elves at the North Pole! Welcome to Santa’s Village at the North Pole, where everyone is getting ready for Christmas! Your toddler will discover what makes Christmas possible, like watching the elves build toys in Santa’s workshops, to getting the reindeer ready for their voyage. This book is the perfect gift to bring for Christmas lovers everywhere, for birthdays, baby showers, housewarming and going away parties. With the Good Night Our World series, toddlers and preschool-age kids can build listening and memory skills by identifying famous landmarks and the distinct character of real places. Perfect for bedtime or naptime, reading simple, soothing phrases to your infant, toddler or preschooler will help them fall gently to sleep. Our readers love that their child will pick a favorite portion of the story to read along with you, and on top of that, these classic board books were built to last! Made from thick paperboard construction, it was designed with your kids in mind. Introduce stories of exploration to your little one using colorful illustrations and distinct vocabulary with Good Night Books, and be sure to look through our entire line of kids picture books about the North Pole, including Good Night Christmas, Good Night Snow, Good Night Christmas Tree, and many more! Surprise your festive toddler today with Good Night North Pole!

From the majestic Maroon Bells to skiing to in Aspen, this charming books tours young explorers around the magnificent state of Colorado. Children quickly recognize their favorite sites and wildlife, including elk and bighorn sheep, Pikes Peak Cog Railway, Colorado State Fair, Royal Gorge Bridge, Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine, Vail, Breckenridge, and more.

One of the first books in the series to focus on a general environment rather than a specific geographic location, this vividly illustrated boardbook follows a multicultural group of people during a trip to the zoo. Designed to soothe children before bedtime with rhythmic language while instilling an early appreciation for the wonders of the natural world, this book features adults and children experiencing all that the zoo has to offer and guides readers through both the passage of a single day and the four seasons.

ManyÊof North AmericaÕs most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these boardbooks designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continentÕs natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured areaÕs attractionsÑsuch as theÊRocky Mountains in Denver,Êthe Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, LakeÊOntario in Toronto, and volcanoes in Hawaii. Rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.

From cheesemakers to Cheeseheads, this adorable board book is certain to be a hit with young readers of Wisconsin. Children will delight in a personal tour of this great state that includes Madison, Milwaukee County Zoo, Door County, Great Lakes, Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee Art Museum, Lambeau Field, the Mississippi River, Milwaukee Brewers, cranberry bogs, dairy farms, and more.

From Hollywood to Venice Beach, this charming board book takes young readers on an unforgetable tour of one the most fascinating and exciting cities in the US. This books includes many of Los Angeles''s top sites and attractions including the Santa Monica Pier, Sunset Boulevard, Grauman''s Chinese Theatre, Rose Parade, La Brera Tar Pitts, Aquarium of the Pacific, LA Zoo, actors and actresses, surfers, and more.

Many of North America''s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent''s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area''s attractions and rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place. Covering many of the state’s most interesting places and features, including the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, the Atlantic Ocean, Rehoboth Beach, Brandywine Zoo, and the numerous lighthouses that dot the shore, this book is a celebration of all things that make Delaware a special place.

In a fun imagining of the earth in the days of the dinosaurs, this board book explores the prehistoric world and introduces children to all of the creatures and natural wonders of that time—from volcanoes to dinosaur favorites such as Stegosaurus and Tyrannasaurus rex. Designed to soothe children before bedtime with rhythmic language while instilling an early appreciation for the wonders of the natural world, this book features an exciting experience in the world of dinosaurs. In a fun imagining of the earth in the days of the dinosaurs, this board book explores the prehistoric world and introduces children to all of the creatures and natural wonders of that time.

Pennsylvania is artfully celebrated in this board book, designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an appreciation for the state''s natural and cultural wonders. These colorful pages feature a multicultural group of people visiting Pennsylvania’s most interesting places and features, including Hershey’s Chocolate World, Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Amish friends, Lancaster, Point State Park, Gettysburg, Erie Zoo, Da Vinci Science Center, Crayola Experience, Independence Hall, and more.

Good Night New Hampshire discovers Mount Washington, Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse, lakes, canoeists and kayakers, baby loons and white-tailed deer, maple trees and syrup, fishing, covered bridges, sandy beaches, general stores, sailing, apple orchards, skiing, ice skating, and more. This adorable board book captures the true spirit of the of the Granite State. Children will be treated to a personal tour of New Hampshire''s most treasured landmarks and attractions. This book is part of the bestselling Good Night Our World series, which includes hundreds of titles exploring iconic locations and exciting, child-friendly themes. Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for North America''s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions as rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.

Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions, and rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.

Indiana is artfully celebrated in this board book designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the state''s natural and cultural wonders. Rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while being gently lulled to sleep. These colorful pages feature a multicultural group of people enjoying the Hoosier State''s iconic attractions and features, including the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Colts, and ice fishing.

Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these boardbooks designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions—such as the Rocky Mountains in Denver, the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Lake Ontario in Toronto, and volcanoes in Hawaii. Rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place. Featuring all new illustrations, this completely revised edition highlights many of the Lone Star state’s most iconic places, including NASA’s Johnson Space Station, the Alamo, the Gulf of Mexico, Dallas, Houston, and Texas wildlife, such as longhorn cattle and prairie dogs.