New Releases by Kevin OMalley

You don't think much about your backpack. It's just kind of dirty and crammed with stuff. But wait--did you knw the backpack has a history? That it could be a superhero's secret weapon? Or an exploding science experiment? Or even a living creature of immense proportions? Kevin O'Malley has created four comic-book-style stories to entertain and amaze backpack wearers everywhere.

Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold.

Six separate stories tell, in words and cartoons, the surprising history and activities of the ordinary school desk.

Retells the traditional tale of the tortoise and the hare as a match between the very vain Lever Lapin and Nate Turtle, who is tired of all of the publicity Lever's speed generates.

Cooperatively writing a story for school, a girl imagines a king and queen who have a baby named Sweet Piper who can talk to birds, while a boy names the baby Sweet Viper and gives him super-strength, cool wrestling moves, and a motorcycle and sunglasses.

On Halloween, Old Witch baked a scrumptious Halloween pie. Then, setting it aside to cool, she leaped on her broom and flew off to make some mischief. Soon the wind began to blow. It blew down Old Witch's chimney and out her window. It blew through the trees and over the graveyard fence. And with it went the spicy scent of Halloween pie.

Zombie in his cave sniffed the wind. Skeleton in his grave sniffed the wind. Vampire, Banshee, Ghoul, and Ghost sniffed the wind. Then they all rose from the graveyard and followed their noses to Old Witch's cottage.

This delicious Halloween romp, filled with spooky sounds and midnight magic, begs to be read aloud again and again and again.

Look up in the sky! It's a pterodactyl! It's a Jurassospheric hovercraft! It's.Captain Raptor Hero of the planet Jurassica! Fearless leader of the intrepid crew U.D.S. Megatooth. Whenever trouble rears its ugly head-no matter where in the solar system- Captain Raptor will be there! From the vivid imagination of Kevin O'Malley and the unparalleled talent of Patrick O'Brien comes the first age of dinosaurs in outer space! The twentieth century saw cats in space, pigs in space, and toads in space, but you've never seen nothing like . . . Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery.