New Releases by S.D. Schindler

"Spike the hedgehog and Ike the coatimundi go on a lively walk through the ever-changing landscape, meeting other animals along the way"--Provided by publisher.

Examines what is known about dinosaur bones, behavior, and other characteristics and how different the facts often are from what scientists, from ancient China to the recent past, believed to be true.

Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been founded on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, the settlement of North America was based on it. To those it has sustained, it is a treasure more precious than gold. It is the codfish, whose story – concisely and eloquently told by Mark Kurlansky – casts a fascinating and revealing fight on world history.COD spans a thousand years and four continents. From the extraordinary Basques, who first commercialized cod in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, to Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s; from 17th century cod wars to the story of how this once ubiquitous fish is today faced with extinction, dramatizing a global ecological crisis; from Nova Scotia and New England to Scandinavia, the coast of England, Brazil, and West Africa; Kurlansky tells a story that, through its narrow lens, open world history to readers in remarkable new ways.COD is enriched by historical photographs, drawings, and artifacts, as well as a collection of recipes, from the Middle Ages to great contemporary chefs, which tell their own piece of the legacy of the codfish.

A collection of stories, poems, songs, and games about pigs, by such authors as E. B. White, Margaret Wise Brown, and Beatrix Potter.

An illustrated version of the traditional song. Includes music.

Text and pictures present birds of the city, suburbs, forest, meadows, marsh, seashore, and desert. The pages have press-out birds and instructions for a mobile.

Three fairy tales include "The Golden Goose," "Puss in Boots," and "Drakestail."

Santa tries his hand at many jobs before finding the perfect job as the world's greatest gift giver.

A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween discovers the value of cooperation when she gets help from a series of monsters.

In 1801, in Chesire, Massachusetts, Elder John Leland organizes his fellow townspeople to make a big cheese for President Jefferson who up until that time had been forced to eat inferior cheeses.

Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building about to be demolished.

Mrs. Jane Tabby could not explain why all four of her children had wings. But it meant that her dreams for her kittens would some day come true. Thelma, Harriet, Roger, and James could fly away from the dangerous city slum and find a safer place to live. That day came. But who could have known what the four kittens would find in the woods...?

Two families--a large one that lives in a house and the other a tiny one that lives in a snow globe, look forward to a big snowstorm.

What do cars, toys, people, and jelly beans have in common? They can all be estimated. Two friends try out their estimating skills and find out that estimating can have real rewards––especially when there's a contest to enter!