Most Popular Books by Judy Sierra

When B.B. Wolf, who now lives in the Villain Villa Retirement Residence, is invited to the library for a storybook tea, he is careful to follow the advice of his crocodile friend and impresses everyone with how polite he can be.

Verses describe the bedtime preparations of different kinds of dinosaurs.

A librarian named Molly made the birds and beasts in the zoo fascinated by the novelty of reading. In response to the different needs of various animals, she provides them with the most suitable books- giraffes read tall books, crickets read small books, and hyenas are best for reading books that make people laugh. She even prepared a special waterproof book for sea otters because they like to read Harry Potter while swimming. After Molly accidentally drove the mobile library into the zoo, a few days later, all the animals keep away from their habitats and nests, crazed in love with wonderful books, and can''t stop.

Presents directions, templates and scripts for feltboard storytelling and readers'' theater.

After being snatched by a terrible ogress who locks them in a trunk, two sisters are rescued by the animals that they have always treated with great kindness.

This big, beautiful book offers 20 favorite tales from around the world that will tickle the funnybone of young listeners. While most of the tales are totally new to Americans and come from countries as far flung as Iran and Italy, the Bahamas and Borneo, children will be delighted to discover some tales with themes similar to their favorites, such as “Rumpelstiltskin” and “The Three Little Pigs.” The brief, lickety-split retellings beg to be read aloud and the nearly 90 lively, colorful illustrations invite children to look at the book again and again.

Thirty puppet plays adapted from nursery rhymes, folk songs, fables, poetry, folktales, and myths with instructional chapters on making and using rod and shadow puppets and puppet stages.

Students, heed this little rhyme: When it''s science project time, Do not make goop, or glop, or grime, And never mess with mutant slime.

This picture book about the first day of school, featuring a frog, a duck, a mouse, and a snail, combines a story in rhyme with colorful graphic rebuses, making it a fun book for parent and child to share in the reading. Children about to enter kinde

A Spanish folktale about a beautiful butterfly. A cricket, a green tree frog, a little gray mouse all asked her to marry them. She chose the mouse because he sang in a sweet small voice, & their babies would love his lullaby. After he moved into her home, she gave him a bucket & sent him to get water. But the bucket was so heavy that he lost his balance & tumbled down into the pond. A fish snapped him up & he never came home. A dove flew to the butterfly & told her the sad story. The nearby tree dropped its leaves into the pond in sympathy, & the pond offered to help by drying up. The queen & king came to the pond to get water, & their reaction to the loss of the mouse brings about a happy ending to the story. Illus.

Un gros et bel album, offrant vingt contes du monde entier, variés et pleins de fantaisie, parfaitement adaptés pour une lecture à voix haute, le soir avant de se coucher. A lire et à relire ! La sélection de Judy Sierra se prête particulièrement bien aux tout-petits : des contes universels, des histoires courtes et amusantes. Les dessins pleins de vie de Valeri Gorbachev illustrent à merveille cet univers peuplé d''animaux. Un album idéal pour faire découvrir aux petits d''autres cultures : vingt pays et six continents sont représentés, de l''Iran à l''Italie, en passant par le Ghana, le Bangladesh, l''Australie, l''Argentine, etc.

Mira Bella mobilizes her art students, from grandmothers to children, crabs to seagulls, to stop a dastardly plan for turning the beach at Ballyhoo Bay into an exclusive resort, and offers an alternative--leave the beach as it is.

From habitual to ritual. Created by a Yoga and meditation instructor, this journal is for people who want to disrupt automated routines and develop rituals to build a more joyful life. Fifty-two rituals, one for each week of the year, to practice and reflect on your life mindfully. Mindfulness means paying attention, to be aware of the choices you are not making. Being aware of what brings you joy and what doesn''t will allow you to make changes and adjustments to design the life you always wanted. This journal asks the right questions and guides you in the right direction; to reflect on your days, inviting joy in your daily chaos.

When the owner of the circus where they work replaces them with robot dogs, Coco and Cavendish set out to find a new job--but it is not as easy as they thought it would be.