New Releases by Wong Herbert Yee

Rosy-cheeked Mouse and shy Mole share their secret valentines and feel butterflies in their bellies in this seventh installment in the award-winning Mouse and Mole series. Wong Herbert Yee creates just the right combination of sweetness, humor, and heart with his words and images for this early reader audience. Readers will be smitten and swooning with this new tender and funny book in this artful and accessible series. As an added bonus, learn how to make a valentine to share in the back of the book!

A young girl rushes outside when the air is crisp and the sky turns gray to observe all of the changes that autumn brings.

A little girl enjoys the activities of a warm summer day and night.

When snow covers the ground, Mouse is out for adventure while Mole stays warm in "another winning installment" of this Geisel Honor Award-winning series ( Booklist). The snow has made the world outside into a winter wonderland. What better day for Mouse and Mole to go sledding, whirl around on ice skates, and build snowmen together? But Mole does not want to go outside. Too cold! Too windy! He prefers to stay as snug as a bug in a rug inside his nice, warm bed. Mouse is lonely. Ice skating and sledding just aren''t as fun for one. Then she gets an idea...a Sno-Mole might do the trick! Mole won''t be needing his hat or scarf or mittens...or will he? Sometimes even best friends want to do different things. But at the end of a cold winter''s day, it''s nice to know that your best friend will be there waiting for you, with warm mittens and all.

When spring arrives, Mole and Mouse find a unique way to bird watch.

“Delightful. . . . A real winner.”—School Library Journal “The friendly, cooperative tone of the text is reminiscent of the Frog and Toad series.”—Kirkus Reviews “Yee’s comfy beginning reader (dedicated to ‘Friends of Frog and Toad’) . . . packs in plenty of sweetness and civility.”—Publishers Weekly Mouse and Mole are neighbors. Mouse lives inside an oak tree, and Mole lives in a hole underneath. They are neighbors, but they are also friends. Sometimes friends make mistakes—but they always try to help each other out. That is what Mouse and Mole do.

As a young girl splashes in the rain, she plays a guessing game with the reader about other living things that enjoy a cloudburst.

Mouse and his downstairs neighbor, Mole, discover that when they help each other, housecleaning and other daily tasks are much easier.

Fireman Small is having trouble sleeping—again. A leaky ceiling forces him to leave the station and check in at the Pink Hotel, but he won’t get a good night’s sleep just yet. First it’s the noisy hotel guests, and then it’s the fire down below that gets Fireman Small out of bed and to the rescue!

After moving to the city, Kim makes some new friends while looking for her lost dog, Chip.

A little girl investigates tracks in the snow, trying to determine what could have made them.

Truckmice are hard at work night and day, hauling dirt, collecting trash, andrushing to fires. Full-color illustrations.

The train station becomes a busy and exciting place when the trainmice come clickety-clack down the track and passengers prepare to get on board. Full-color illustrations.

When Pinky Pig''s job at Hamburger Heaven is threatened, she launches a campaign to make the restaurant more popular with the other animals.

Although Sargent Hippo is nervous about attending the Officer''s Ball, the practice he has done while on duty pays off at the dance.

Fireman small has a busy day rescuing people and fighting fires . . . and it''s not over yet. Just as he''s preparing for a good night''s sleep, the fire bell rings yet again.

When Mrs. Brown gets in an accident and lands in the hospital, the animals on her farm decide to move into her house. Chaos ensues and when Mrs. Brown does return home, there are many surprises in store for her.

When he visits a little girl''s home, a black bear with no manners makes a terrible mess until another visitor helps him see the error of his ways.

After discovery of a mouse in the house, larger and larger animals are sent in after one another, with increasingly chaotic results.

All the family members think baby is crying, and they try to cheer him up before discovering that his face is wet from raindrops, not tears.