New Releases by Erica Farber

Huckle is thrilled to have a new red sled, but there is no snow.

Featuring the popular characters from Richard Scarry''s Busytown, this activity book introduces young students to beginning reading, phonics, and writing concepts. Written in consultation with a team of early education specialists, this book helps young learners understand and master skills these key literacy skills, guided by friendly and familiar characters. The volume includes a set of collectible stickers that add to the fun of learning.

Zoom, zoom: race day is here, and Huckle Cat and his friends are getting their special cars ready for the big event. But one by one, each vehicle has a problem, creating scenes of comic calamity. It''s Huckle to the rescue ...but who will win the race?

When friends gather to prepare a birthday party for Lowly, there are many surprises including a most unusual cake.

Huckle, Bridget, and their friends enjoy Backwards Day at home and school.

In the South American fainforest, the Critter Kids visit an archaeological dig in Mayan ruins. They discover that a priceless jade statue has been stolen.

Now that you have reached the magical age of 11, it is time for your inheritance. . . . So begins the note Lila da Gama receives from a distant aunt, and so begins an adventure that will take Lila much farther than Tiger Lily, her aunt’s crumbling estate. She’ll travel to another world, the Islands of the Black Moon, the place where Lila suspects her father disappeared six years earlier. There she must face terrifying creatures, including a beautiful but evil sorceress, who are all after one thing–Lila’s inheritance. Lila refuses to relinquish her precious birthright, until the sorceress says the six words that Lila cannot resist:I know where your father is. With a little magic, a little science, and a lot of courage, as well as help from an island boy, this spunky heroine sets off to change her family’s fortune and bring her father home. From the Hardcover edition.

Three young people from different times, each with unique abilities, are drawn together in a desperate effort to defeat the forces of the dark one.

Fantasy-roman.

When a large green egg appears in their barn, a cat and dog invesitgate from where it came.

Journey down the Nile and try to solve the mummy mystery with Little Monster Private Eye and his trusty assistant, Detective Kerploppus. Contains four rubber stamps of Egyptian symbols and an ink pad. Full-color illustrations.

Little Monster, private eye must find Professor Pickle and the long lost mummy.

When Captain Short Bob, the pirate king, cooks up a dish of bubble gum and tuna fish, he loses his gold tooth to a sea beast.

Little critters celebrate Easter with an egg hunt!

Axel and Thistle face the dangers of the Forbidden Palace.

A group of little monsters get hungry in the middle of the night. Step-Into-Reading Step 1.

Thistle gets into mischief at Witches Hollow Witch School when she decides to vary the recipe for her magic potion.

"A kingdom shrouded in darkness... An evil vampire ruler... And three wicked witches... The Last Empress is the only hope. And it''s up to Wanda Howl to find her -- before it''s too late!"--

The Howl family races to beat an evil French baron to the head of an old gargoyle, which will give the owner control over a bunch of stone gargoyles come to life.

Goblin declares he has had his best birthday party ever, but only after he is taken to task for his bad behavior and learns to play fairly.

Frankengator and Axl Howl get into big trouble when they accidentally turn the three biggest gossips in Critter Falls into werewolves.

Illustrated in full color. When Axel and Thistle stumble upon a not-so-scary dragon living in the secret caves of Critter Falls, it looks as if the Howls have just made a fire-breathing friend.

A young child gives advice on what to do if a pirate ship appears outside your window.

Axl can''t howl and Thistle can''t fly, but they soon realize that there are things they can do.

When Thistle Howl''s aunt tries magic to help her grow, Thistle starts to think she may be content just as she is

LC and the Critter Kids are desperate to go to the Critter Jam concert, but earning the money for the tickets turns into disaster.

While visiting the ruins outside Tikal, Guatemala, LC and his friends help to foil the thieves who have stolen a newly-discovered statue of the Mayan king Jaguar Paw. Includes information on Mayan civilization and rainforest ecology.

LC gets an anonymous e-mail message, and when he and his friends investigate, they discover a plot to steal a new computer chip

Everybody goes to the new Presto Pizza instead of to Tony''s, but LC thinks Tony makes the best pizza, so he and his friends work to keep Tony''s open