Central Kansas Library System

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of verbs, from "toss and tumble," "jump and jam," to "whine and whisper," "sleep and slam."

A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...

Here are two classics of moral philosophy from one of the most revered Christian voices of our time. In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis reflects on society and nature and the challenges of how best to educate our children. He describes what public education should be and how far from this standard modern education has fallen. Lewis eloquently argues that we need as a society to underpin reading and writing lessons with moral education. In The Great...

Readers learn the alphabet along with George as the man in the yellow hat teaches the curious monkey how to read.

Explains various animal expressions that employ similes, metaphors, idioms, and proverbs.

A variety of performing animals introduce thirteen pairs of opposites such as first-last, hot-cold, and up-down.

Offers an abundant cache of ideas about using words and wordplay to create engaging riddles and jokes.