New Releases by Edith Kunhardt

A simple biography of the president who led the United States through a bloody civil war.

I''m Going To Be.

This is Edith Davis''s unrelenting, profoundly honest account of her 27-year-old son''s premature death, their relationship before, and Davis''s finding a life afterward. Only John Gunther''s Death Be Not Proud, an account of his son''s death, rivals it in the literature of parental grief and recovery.

Andrew and his classmates in Mrs. Halsey''s kindergarten class learn about colors in a unique way.

After Danny accidentally drops the star for the Christmas tree, he makes a replacement.

Maggie and Will spend a busy day on the farm, making many choices in which the reader may share.

Danny colors Easter eggs with his friends, then hunts for them after they are hidden by the Easter Bunny, and gives a special one to his grandmother.

Photographs and simple text describe a busy day on a family farm.

A little girl whose father is a volunteer fire fighter tells about his work and her own ambitions to fight fires.

The reader joins characters Will and Maggie in choosing articles of clothing, picking out something for breakfast, and making other decisions as the day proceeds.

Peter pretends to be invisible in the bathtub, a game he shares with his baby sister, Abby, when she becomes old enough for the big tub.

Danny''s parents and friends make sure he has a happy Halloween even though a cold prevents him from going trick-or-treating.

A Step 4 HISTORY reader. "The drama of natural disasters provides prime material to entice young independent readers. In this volume, the account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius describes village life 2,000 years ago, the eruption itself and its aftermath, and the excitement when the buried town is rediscovered centuries later. A lively and factual glimpse of a devastating moment in history, in an accessible, attractive package."--Publishers Weekly. Step 4 Readers use challenging vocabulary and short paragraphs to tell exciting stories. For newly independent readers who read simple sentences with confidence. With full-color illustrations.

Danny and his mother go in search of the person who left Danny an unsigned valentine.

Although two friends miss each other while on vacation, they manage to have fun and share their experiences when they return home.

In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would be the world’s fastest-growing economy by 2000, the USSR no longer existed. In 1908, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as dart-throwing monkeys. And yet every day we ask them to predict the future—everything from the weather to the likelihood of a terrorist attack. Future Babble is the first book to examine this phenomenon, showing why our brains yearn for certainty about the future, why we are attracted to those who predict it confidently, and why it’s so easy for us to ignore the trail of outrageously wrong forecasts.In this fast-paced, example-packed, sometimes darkly hilarious book, Dan Gardner shows how seminal research by professor Philip Tetlock proved that the more famous a pundit is, the more likely they are to be right about as often as a stopped watch. Gardner also draws on current research in cognitive psychology, political science, and behavioral economics to discover something quite reassuring: The future is always uncertain, but the end is not always near.

Text and illustrations describe the rooms, people, and activities in a little girl''s house.

Simple text and illustrations describe the homes of various animals including turtles, seals, and ants.