New Releases by Matt Novak

The charming little bear first introduced in Jazzbo Goes to School (Hyperion, 1999) returns for another adventure. This story deals with the common childhood fear of not being able to make friends. Googy makes big messes, ruins paintings, and pushes others just a little too high on the swings. However, when the bumbling pig rescues Jazzbo''s best friend-his teddy-from a mud puddle, a new friendship is forged.

In this updated version of the popular turn off TV book, the mouse family is up at night, glued to the TV. But there is many a squeaky squabble because all ten mice favor different channels. History, mystery, how-to, where-to, comedy, drama, sports ... This viewer-friendly romp shows how, one night, they all get happy with new favorites they''d hardly imagined.

Toby Tibbles thought this birthday was going to be just like any other, but he was very wrong. This birthday was going to be filled with big adventure, big trouble, and big celebrations all because of his new best friend Little Robot.

A rhyming story with illustrations and simple text celebrating the addition of a child to a family.

What if you had a machine that did EVERYTHING? One that cleaned your house, mowed your lawn, scratched your back, even colored your coloring books? That''s what the people of Planet Quirk had. And for them, life was so easy that on most days they didn''t even have to get out of bed. But one fateful day, the machine stopped working ...

On Valentine''s Day, Princess Polly looks for a handsome prince among four frogs and has bad luck kissing the first three but the fourth is a different story.

BARNYARD MAYHEM disrupts a quiet Christmas Eve in this ingenious stocking stuffer. Farmer Ben has wrapped his presents, and all he wants is sleep. But then the ruckus begins. As each of his noisy, insomniac farm animals, from chicken, to pig, to sheep, to cow, files into the farmhouse, Farmer Ben finds he has no room left to rest his head. From the creator of the popular Too Many Bunnies and Flip Flop Bop comes another fun-filled die-cut delight, just in time for Christmas!

Presents an easy-to-read, rhyming celebration of summertime''s favorite footwear--flip flops.

Because their hole is so crowded, one by one a bunch of bunnies hop across a field to a new hole--and then back again.

At Super School, Weeza and Skitter are best friends. Jazzbo''s best buddy is his teddy bear, Big Bear. Googy is the only one who doesn''t have a best friend. And the more he tries to be friends with Jazzbo, the more he seems to just mess things up. The story of how Jazzbo and Googy become best buddies is the story of the awkward and sometimes funny beginning of every friendship.

Although they are very different, two wolves discover that they can still be friends.

Jazzbo does not want to go to school until he and his mother find just the right school for him.

When the Robobots move onto Littlewood Lane, they create controversy with their strange ways, but eventually they convince the neighbors that they are a family worth knowing. By the author of Mouse TV.

In three related stories Newt, a small salamander, befriends a mouse, defines a bug, and comforts the moon.

Chaque soir, la famille Souris se réunit devant la télévision et le guerre des chaînes recommence. Jusqu''au jour béni où la télé tombe enfin en panne...

Gertie Goomba is a lonely girl.Her papa spends all day every day wrestling alligators.When Gertie tries to help, he says only, "This is no work for little girls!" and "Go play!"But with whom?This hilarious story presents the answer in the shape of a small alligator named Gumbo,who cares less for wrestling than you might think,and more for Gertie than she has dreamed possible.

Le père Noël se prépare. Les lutins sont au travail. Basile, l''un d''eux, reçoit des ordres de tous. Voilà qu''il trouve un cadeau oublié. Il attelle son chien à son traîneau et part. Après avoir affronté les loups, l''avalanche, le monstre et les requins, il voit ses efforts récompensés. Une présentation de style BD, peu de texte. Tout à fait charmant.

One of Santa''s elves sets out on an adventurous journey to deliver a present that was accidentally left behind.

Running late to work, Elmer leaves his door open and returns to find his home occupied by a crew of mischievous woodland creatures, wildly surprised to find themselves witnesses to a crime.