New Releases by Lisa Wheeler

When things go wrong, look for the Dino-Helpers! This dino-neighborhood is home to crossing guards, veterinarians, nurses, park rangers, and more. And day or night, they’re always ready to lend a helping hand. Whether they’re finding lost puppies or fixing traffic jams, these dinos are here to save the day! In this latest installment in the popular Dino-World series, rhyming verse from Lisa Wheeler and high-energy illustrations from Barry Gott show how dinosaurs of all sizes and ages can be important community helpers.

Celebrate military families and all they do when their loved ones are away on duty in this lyrical and timeless tale. Whether in the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Army or Marines, the brave people serving the country also have family serving in important ways back home. With beautiful text and gorgeous watercolor paintings, It Takes a Family to Serve shines a light on the work and dedication of families waiting for their loved ones to come back to them, while they take care of a beloved pet, attend a special event or raise a grandchild.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! There’s always something new happening at Dino-School! Whether they’re decorating the classroom, celebrating the 100th day of school, or racing across the schoolyard during Field Day, the dinos of Room 3 are always busy. Join them for a full school year of discovery and fun with rhyming verse from Lisa Wheeler and high-energy illustrations from Barry Gott!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Every dino has one day / to spend in their own special way. Playful rhyming verse from Lisa Wheeler and action-packed illustrations from Barry Gott highlight four dino birthday parties in four different seasons. Each party has a kid-friendly theme, and there are presents, cake, and lots of games for everyone!

Cuando los Medias Verdes come-plantas se enfrenten a los Ojos Rojos come-carne, el baseball nunca volverá a ser el mismo. Empatados a cero, el juego es un duelo de lanzadores hasta que el furioso entrenador de los Medias Verdes se enfrenta hocico a hocico con el árbitro dodo y es expulsado. ¡Los Medias Verdes responden con sus bates de fuerza vegetal y anotan tres carreras! Los Rojos toman la iniciativa antes de la séptima entrada y llegan igualados al inicio de la novena. ¿Este juego se irá a entradas extras o será Apatosaurus el héroe del día? When the plant-eating Green Sox face the meat-eating Rib-Eye Reds, baseball will never be the same. Tied zip to zip, the game is a pitchers'' duel until the Green Sox''s hothead manager goes snout to snout with the dodo umpire and gets tossed out. The Sox respond with their veggie-powered bats and score three runs! Momentum swings back to the Reds before the seventh inning stretch, and they''re all tied up in the bottom of the ninth. Will this game need extra innings, or will Apatosaur save the day? Now in Spanish.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! The world needs help to keep it clean. / It''s Dino-Earth Day . . . let''s go green! Upbeat rhyming verse from Lisa Wheeler and playful illustrations from Barry Gott present many different ways to take care of the planet. The dinos ride bikes and scooters, clean up a park, plant an urban garden, visit a recycling center, and more. Celebrate Earth Day with your favorite dino friends!

Hanukkah is coming, and the dinos are all busy getting ready! They make brisket and latkes, and the dino-kids play with a dreidel, act out the Hanukkah story, open gifts, and eagerly await their turn to light the menorah. Dinosaurs big and small gather to decorate, eat, and even compete in party festivities like only prehistoric carnivores and herbivores would. Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott—creators of the enormously popular Dino-Sports picture books—team up to create celebrations of epic proportions!

Here comes Santa Claws! Get ready to celebrate the holidays . . . dino-style. Rhyming text and vivid illustrations show dinosaurs decorating cookies, playing in the snow, dreaming of presents, and more! There''s tons of dino-fun for everyone in this high-energy board book series. Dinosaurs face off on the field, battle on the court, and rally in the rink, then gather together to celebrate their favorite holidays!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Will you be mine, Dino-Valentine? Dinos of all shapes and sizes make cards, munch on treats, and find romance at the Valentine Dance! Cheery rhyming text from Lisa Wheeler and delightfully goofy illustrations from Barry Gott invite readers to celebrate Valentine''s Day in true dino style. Raptor and Leso decorate card boxes at school, the Ptero twins shop for the perfect box of chocolates, and Maia has crushes on . . . everyone! There''s something for everyone to enjoy in this humorous and heartwarming look at the sweetest holiday of the year! Dinosaurs big and small gather to decorate, eat, and even compete in party festivities like only prehistoric carnivores and herbivores would. Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott—creators of the enormously popular Dino-Sports picture books—team up to create celebrations of epic proportions!

Dino-skates. / Stick and puck. / Dino-helmet. / Lick for luck. Introduce young readers to the thrill of hockey with Lisa Wheeler''s simple rhyming text and Barry Gott''s high-energy illustrations. Little fans will cheer as two dinosaur hockey teams square off in this fast-paced board book. There''s tons of dino-fun for everyone in this high-energy board book series. Dinosaurs face off on the field, battle on the court, and rally in the rink, then gather together to celebrate their favorite holidays!

As winter snow melts into spring, froggies croak and robins sing. Soon there''ll be a holiday . . .Dino-Easter''s on its way! Celebrate with the dinos as they gather flowers for a spring bouquet, throw an egg painting party, pet newborn farm animals, visit a chocolate factory, and join an Easter parade with Peter Clobbertail. At last it''s time for the egg hunt. Will Raptor finally get to eat his treats? Dinosaurs big and small gather to decorate, eat, and even compete in party festivities like only prehistoric carnivores and herbivores would. Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott—creators of the enormously popular Dino-Sports picture books—team up to create celebrations of epic proportions!

Buildings, bridges, and books don''t exist without the workers who are often invisible in the final product, as this joyous and profound picture book reveals from acclaimed author of The Christmas Boot Lisa Wheeler and New York Times bestselling illustrator of Love Loren Long All across this great big world, jobs are getting done by many hands in many lands. It takes much more than ONE. Gorgeously written and illustrated, this is an eye-opening exploration of the many types of work that go into building our world--from the making of a bridge to a wind farm, an amusement park, and even the very picture book that you are reading. An architect may dream up the plans for a house, but someone has to actually work the saws and pound the nails. This book is a thank-you to the skilled women and men who work tirelessly to see our dreams brought to life.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Lisa Wheeler''s bouncy, rhyming text and Barry Gott''s energetic illustrations invite readers to celebrate a dino-style Thankgiving! Follow along as dinos travel over the river and through the woods to join together with family. They enjoy favorite activities, including a corn maze, a televised parade with giant balloon creations, and of course a football game! The dinos share in not one but two feastsu0097one for the carnivores and another for the veggie-saurs. Join in the fun as the dinos find much to be thankful for on this special holiday!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Come October, nights are longer./Moon looms bigger. Winds blow stronger./Air is crisper. Leaves are falling./Dino-Halloween is calling! Trick or treat! Join your favorite dinosaurs as they visit a haunted house, carve pumpkins, make costumes, do the monster mash, and more! Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott, creators of the enormously popular Dino-Sports series, come together again to show how these fun-loving dinos celebrate Halloween. "Dino lovers will be thrilled to spend a spooky holiday with their favorite cast."—Kirkus Reviews

Bubble gum, bubble gum, Chewy-gooey bubble gum, Icky-Sticky bubble gum Melting in the road. Along comes a toad, a shrew, a goose, and more wacky animals who get stuck in the gooey-ooey mess. How will they escape when a big blue truck comes straight toward them? Written in lively, lyrical rhyme and accompanied by hilarious, colorful illustrations, Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum is an irresistible picture book for reading aloud. If you like the Wonky Donkey, you''ll love Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum! For the 2017 Michigan Reads! program the Library of Michigan selected Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum written by Lisa Wheeler and illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith. Michigan Reads is a program modeled after "One Book, One Community" and is intended to support the development of early literacy skills as a foundation to future reading and success in school and beyond.

In this hilariously instructive follow-up to Lisa Wheeler and Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator Molly Idle’s People Don’t Bite People, this cheeky and charming picture book reminds little ones that sharing is caring. Learning good behavior has never been so fun! It’s good to share a blanket. It’s nice to share some fries. It’s great to share your crayons BEFORE somebody cries. Yes… People share with people! It’s not that hard to do. So if you’d like to cozy up… I’ll SHARE this book with you!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! In this installment of dino competition, meat eaters face off against plant eaters in three high-speed auto events: drag racing, off-road racing, and stock-car racing. Lisa Wheeler''s rhymes explore thoughtful questions such as: Which dinosaurs would make the best chasers for support in a desert off-road race? Does T-Rex''s king status transfer to the track? And can Diplodocus actually fit inside a stock car? Barry Gott''s illustrations bring all the hilarious action to life.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! The Paleo Theater is packed with cheering fans ready for a dance showdown. When the beat drops, can Triceratops win over the judges with his pop and lock? Can Allo''s on-pointe ballet moves dominate the solo category? And will Maia and Stego take home the top prize for their sizzling salsa steps? This prehistoric dance competition will keep you on the edge of your seat!

A Hug Is for Holding Me is a sweet, cozy book about love and affection and invites children to engage with the natural world in a fresh, new way. Some hugs are tight and some hugs are snug . . . but guess who gives the BEST hugs?

Lisa Wheeler and Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator Molly Idle remind overeager little biters that biting is for food in this hysterical read-aloud picture book. Learning good behavior has never been so fun! It’s good to bite a carrot. It’s good to bite a steak. It’s bad to bite your sister! She’s not a piece of cake. Cause… People don’t bite people! That’s what this book’s about. So if you find you’re tooth-inclined— you’d better check it out!

The veggie-saurs and the meat-eaters face off in the Mega-Bowl! Sacks and hand-offs. Touchdowns and interceptions. When dinos don shoulder pads, the action is sure to be epic. But as the clock ticks down, will the Scales make a goal-line stand or will the Blades break through for the winning TD?

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! When the plant-eating Green Sox face the meat-eating Rib-Eye Reds, baseball will never be the same. Tied zip to zip, the game is a pitchers'' duel until the Green Sox''s hothead manager goes snout to snout with the dodo umpire and gets tossed out. The Sox respond with their veggie-powered bats and score three runs! Momentum swings back to the Reds before the seventh inning stretch, and they''re all tied up in the bottom of the ninth. Will this game need extra innings, or will Apatosaur save the day? Dinosaurs face off in prehistoric sports competitions—from baseball to wrestling and every sport in between! Will the plant-eaters become the champions? Or will the meat-eaters be victorious? Fast-paced, rhyming commentary and exuberant illustrations put readers right in the action. Sure to thrill dinosaur lovers and sports fans alike!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! The Land Sharks take on the Algae Eaters in a dino-swimming showdown! Raptor and Stegosaurus start it off in the individual medley, while the Ptero twins battle it out in the butterfly race. Then Galli and Diplo wow the crowd with their flips and tricks off the diving board! But which team will win the swim meet? It comes down to the last event: the backstroke. Both Stego and Galli think they''ll take the prize. Let''s hope these dinos remembered their goggles―this swim meet is bound to make a splash! Dinosaurs face off in prehistoric sports competitions—from baseball to wrestling and every sport in between! Will the plant-eaters become the champions? Or will the meat-eaters be victorious? Fast-paced, rhyming commentary and exuberant illustrations put readers right in the action. Sure to thrill dinosaur lovers and sports fans alike!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! When the carnivorous Meat face the herbivorous Grass Clippers, rims are sure to rattle! Ally-oops and rejections are the orders of the day as the dinos play a fast-paced full-court game. No one can establish a lead as the final seconds tick by. The fans are getting tense, and there''s a championship on the line. Which dino will step up and take it to the hoop? This exciting follow-up to Dino-Hockey, Dino-Soccer, and Dino-Baseball is sure to thrill dinosaur and sports lovers alike. Dinosaurs face off in prehistoric sports competitions—from baseball to wrestling and every sport in between! Will the plant-eaters become the champions? Or will the meat-eaters be victorious? Fast-paced, rhyming commentary and exuberant illustrations put readers right in the action. Sure to thrill dinosaur lovers and sports fans alike!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! In a hockey match unrivaled in prehistory, the Meat-Eaters take on the Veggiesaurs. Fans go wild in the stands as T. Rex and Triceratops face off, and the game is off to a rip-roaring start. An assist from Raptor gains the first goal for the Meat-Eaters―but the naughty Pterodactyl twins, playing wingers, earn their team a penalty. The Veggies are quick to take advantage and Diplo scores. A tie game! Join the fans and find out what happens. You''ll have a front row seat, so keep an eye on Raptor. Hockey gets him pretty riled up and that''s quite a set of teeth he''s baring Dinosaurs face off in prehistoric sports competitions—from baseball to wrestling and every sport in between! Will the plant-eaters become the champions? Or will the meat-eaters be victorious? Fast-paced, rhyming commentary and exuberant illustrations put readers right in the action. Sure to thrill dinosaur lovers and sports fans alike!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Team Green Machine battles the Shredding Crew for dino-boarding domination! Allo and Diplo thrill the surfing crowd, while Compy comes up short on a short board. In the next round, Iguano, Raptor, and the Ptero Twins fly high on skateboards. And who will win the snowboarding half-pipe? Tricera and T-Rex each think they''ll take home the prize. Let''s hope the dinos remembered their helmets―these tricks might get gnarly! Dinosaurs face off in prehistoric sports competitions—from baseball to wrestling and every sport in between! Will the plant-eaters become the champions? Or will the meat-eaters be victorious? Fast-paced, rhyming commentary and exuberant illustrations put readers right in the action. Sure to thrill dinosaur lovers and sports fans alike!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! The Dino-Wrestling Jamboree is ON! Dinos compete in all styles of wrestling at this gigantic event. Allo and Ankylo grapple in a folkstyle match. Lucha Libre fans go wild as the masked Tarbosaurus takes on Iguano. Tricera and Gigano loom large on the sumo dohyo, while over in the freestyle tent, Leso and Compy battle for the pin. Just what will happen when the Diplo and Ptero tag teams rumble in the WWD fight? You won''t want to miss this action! Dinosaurs face off in prehistoric sports competitions—from baseball to wrestling and every sport in between! Will the plant-eaters become the champions? Or will the meat-eaters be victorious? Fast-paced, rhyming commentary and exuberant illustrations put readers right in the action. Sure to thrill dinosaur lovers and sports fans alike!

In the spirit of Christmas classics The Polar Express and The Night Before Christmas comes a holiday tale about the magic of Santa, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Jerry Pinkney Lonely Hannah is delighted to discover a warm black boot as she gathers kindling in the forest. A poor woman, she doesn''t have proper shoes on her cold feet. "Glory be! I only wish I had your mate," she says to the boot, and the next morning, to her great surprise, there is not just one boot but two sitting by her bed! More wishes bring even better gifts—but the best is still to come: A visitor arrives at her door—a man with a big white beard, wearing a red suit and only one boot. Who could this magical visitor be? Santa Claus, of course! And he has one more surprise in store for Hannah: She wakes up the next morning to find a new puppy waiting for her!

Once a year, every year, the seven uncles gather. Shaggy coats, scarves of red. Two tall antlers on each head. Is it their niece they''ve come to see? Surely, yes. Is it their job they''ve come to do? Most definitely. And is she eager to join in the fun? Absolutely! Here is a playful tribute to a famous team of eight relatives who, once a year, every year, bring delight to children.