New Releases by Judi Barrett

Easy - Copy 1.

Between his ninth and tenth birthdays, Benjamin figures out how to have a birthday every single day of the year.

Words and pictures show essential characteristics of a number of animals, such as a porcupine is piles of prickles and a crab is conspicuously claws..

Reading beyond the Basal teacher guide gives the teacher and the children an opportunity to choose appropriate activities following the reading of a favorite book.

Rhymed text and illustrations suggest some new ways of looking at familiar things.

An imaginative story of amazing food weather that inspired the hit movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a favorite of grown-ups and children everywhere. The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town—except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers. Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The food got larger and larger and so did the portions. Chewandswallow was plagued by damaging floods and storms of huge food. The town was a mess and the people feared for their lives. Something had to be done, and in a hurry.

Text and pictures contrast the size differences between Daddy and son and point out that though being small is frustrating, it has some advantages.

When Peter''s mother makes portable pockets that can be pinned on to any of his clothes, he is able to carry around all his important things.

After hiding an apple a day in his room for months, Jeremy tries to get rid of them by eating them--but he hates apples!

Old McDonald turns a multi-story apartment house into a high rise farm.