New Releases by Debra Frasier

Can an ugly dog with a heart of gold find a home? A warm and clever picture book for animal lovers of any breed. When Spike, the winner of the Ugliest Dog in the Universe contest, is abandoned by his owner, Joe, the boy next door, is determined—against all odds—to adopt him. Things look grim until Spike foils a neighborhood catnapping plan—and saves the day!

Got your ticket? Enter the gate! See the biggest pig and a pumpkin as big as a pig! Taste blue-ribbon jam, pitch a baseball, win a bear. Drink lemonade and eat what? Eat everything! Letters of all shapes and sizes have been photographed and collaged together in this exuberant, eye-popping, letter-and-word-finding tour of the glories of the state fair. From dill pickles and cotton candy to Ferris wheels and midway games, here is an alphabet-exploring adventure like no other. Start at A and be Amazed!

The modern classic On the Day You Were Born is now available with a musical CD.

The kids from "Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster" are back and they''re putting on a neighborhood play starring the world''s most astonishing combination of atoms--H2O. Filled with scientific facts about water, readers can join in the kids'' wet-and-wild celebration. Full color.

A young girl and her mother walk along the beach and marvel at the treasures cast up by the sea and the wonders of the world around them.

Sage has misheard and misunderstood one of Mrs. Page''s weekly vocabulary words. Her error leads to a humbling catastrophe: a momentous tragedy, in front of the entire class. Can Sage turn her vocabulary disaster: an event bringing great misfortune, into a triumph: a true success?

The earth celebrates the birth of a newborn baby.