New Releases by Tracey Campbell Pearson

Mother Goose herself invites kids to come out to play with all their favorite nursery rhyme characters in this popular Mother Goose rhyme. Girls and boys, come out to play, The moon doth shine as bright as day. Parents looking for bedtime stories with a fresh twist on a familiar nursery rhyme need look no further. Using the popular Girls and Boys Come Out to Play Mother Goose poem as a backdrop, illustrator Tracey Campbell Pearson spins an exciting visual narrative in which Mother Goose invites children on a city block to come out and play, taking them on a moonlit adventure in verse. Young readers will love pouring over Tracey''s richly detailed artwork full of diverse kids, animals, and beloved nursery rhyme characters, including Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, and Old King Cole. After the fun is over, Mother Goose leads everyone home to sleep snug in their beds

The day Gracie loses her favorite book, Elephant finds it. He sniffs the words ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS and--oops--they go up his trunk, where they wiggle and jiggle and make him sneeze. The letters fly through the air helter skelter, and when Elephant tries to put them back together, he can''t figure out how to make the right words that fit. He asks his friends for help, but they just choose some of the letters to make up their own words--Alligator wants to CHEW them, Seal SPINs them, Monkeys THROW them, and Bear just SNOREs. Lucky for elephant, Gracie comes looking for her book. She makes the letters into the right words and then adds some of her own: a girl went to the zoo and made a new friend.

How to foil a bully''s tactics Myrtle is happy. Her mom loves her. Her dad loves her. Her baby brother loves her. She has a good life -- until Frances moves next door. Frances does not love Myrtle, and she makes it her mission to keep Myrtle miserable. She makes mean signs, sings mean songs, and says mean things. It comes to the point when Myrtle is afraid to play outside. Then Aunt Tizzy comes to visit, fresh from an African safari, and she has some very good pointers to share with Myrtle, learned from keeping the lions at bay. Exuberant and funny, Pearson''s story and pictures will resound for any child who''s encountered a mean mouse like Frances.

A farmyard tale in which Bob the Rooster goes in search of someone who will teach him how to crow. Along the way he learns how to make all sorts of other animal noises, but not the right one

Because Joe''s Snack Bar always closes for the season, the townspeople speculate about where Joe goes for the winter.

Annie receives a purple hat in the mail.

Lonely for company, the Howling Dog is not content until she has awakened the entire town.

Follows the activities of a storekeeper from early morning when she opens her shop until it is time to go home.

An illustrated version of the traditional English carol centering on good cheer and figgy pudding.

Patterns and instructions for making the various members of the Littlefield doll family, from grandparents to grandchildren. Includes a family history.

The inhabitants of Old MacDonald''s farm are described, verse by verse.