From Newbery Honor winner Cece Bell comes an offbeat, pitch-perfect storybook for beginning readers that will have them in fits of giggles.
"Maybe your foot smells good.
Maybe your foot smells great.
But I will not smell your foot until you say PLEASE."
Meet Chick and Brain. And their friend Spot. Chick likes to follow the rules. Brain might not be as smart as he looks. And Spot just wants to eat lunch.

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Homonyms cause great confusion as an increasingly cranky yam tries to make introductions and provide explanations to a newly-arrived and rather silly donkey.

¡Cambiar de colegio siempre da miedo, y más si llevas un audífono gigante atado al pecho!

En su anterior colegio, todos los compañeros de Cece eran sordos, pero en el nuevo ella es la única. Cece está segura de que los niños la rechazarán por su Phonic Ear, el audífono de gran potencia que la ayudará a oír a su profesora.

Un día, Cece descubre algo increíble. Con su nuevo audífono no solo oye a la profesora

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Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere...

A pony tries to convince his cranky owner to take a ride into town. Includes notes about the song, "Yankee Doodle."

Good ol Ribsy's ever-curious mind has always gotten him into scrapes, but this time he may have gone too far. After a comical turn of events, Ribsy finds himself in the wrong station wagon with the wrong children. Ribsy will do anything to find Henry, but there's plenty of excitement to be had along the way and scoring a touchdown for a local high school team is only part of the fun!

Famous toy actor Sock Monkey finds it almost impossible to kiss his costar while filming the singing cowboy movie "Hubbub at the Happy Canyon Hoedown."

Rabbit is excited about the sleepover he has carefully planned for his friend Robot, but Robot has some different ideas about how things should go.

A friendly woodchuck helps shy first-graders Chuck and Caroline become friends by sharing Chuck's possessions with Caroline and encouraging Chuck to help when Caroline forgets her lines during the class play.

"Cece Bell loves music and collecting old record albums, her introduction explains, especially albums featuring animal artists. The bouncing harmonies of the Barbershop Beagles, the elegant crooning of the elephant Ella Fontaine, the hilarious rhymes of the Hip-Hop Hedgehogs--all are represented in this quirky ABC book that draws on the creator's personal collection of albums, memorabilia, and lyrics dating between 1944 and 1984, the heyday of album...