New Releases by Mary Packard

Complete with full-color photos and original cartoons, this collection features the weirdest, grossest, strangest, and most unbelievable facts, acts, and oddities ever recorded. Original.

Chock full of grossly disgusting facts. Includes multiple choice quizzes.

Describes six very talented animals: Twiggy, a squirrel who water-skis; Tracker, a dog who acts; Tilly, a dog who paints; Koko, a gorilla who uses sign language and paints; and Siri and Ruby, elephants who also paint.

Rollie the penguin is an expert swimmer, but what he really wants to do is fly, as he tells Santa Claus, so one Christmas Eve Santa invites him along for the ride.

Rhyming tale of a first-grade girl waiting to lose her first tooth so that she will have a spacey smile just like all of her classmates.

Friends have fun playing in the colorful autumn leaves. Includes related activities and game cards.

A big Ankylosaurus named Lozar creates an opening into the side of a mountain to protect his caveman friend, Thrax, from Tyrannosaurus.

Vroom! Vroom! While reading about each vehicle and the workers who use them, kids will have fun playing along and acting out the story with these three-dimensional die-cut board books.

Collection of close-up photographs of everyday objects as if seen through a magnifying glass. Includes suggestions for use of the magnifying glass and questions and answers.

A little boy imagines he is a king in a castle, commanding his army.

Tiger the kitten is frightened out of his fur when his nice, friendly neighborhood is overrun by scary, ghoulish creatures!

Three magical elves come to the aid of a humble cobbler couple by making the most marvelous shoes ever seen. Suggested level: junior, primary.

When an alligator and an egret are hatched from eggs tossed together by a storm, they listen to other animals in Cypress Glade before deciding where to live.

While looking for some flowers for his friend''s birthday party, Mike the snowy egret gets caught in some plastic trash that had been thrown into Mulberry Marsh.

Spike the alligator and Mike the snowy egret are so eager to show two visiting jays what a great place Cypress Swamp is that they do things that they know they shouldn''t.

A child watches his kite fly high in the sky.

A child watches his kite fly high in the sky.

Donated.

Young children will love learning to read with the "My First Reader" storybooks. Once a child can recognize and identify the words used to tell each story, he or she will be able to successfully read on their own. Familiar words are repeated throughout the story, so that after you and your young readers have read the story several times, he or she will be able to easily recognize the words and understand their meaning. A word list is included. Big, bright illustrations complement each delightful story -- the kind of stories young children can quickly relate to -- and enjoy.

A little groundhog and his family enjoy all four seasons.

Describes different parts of the body, including the circulatory, digestive, nervous, and reproductive systems, and explains how they work.