Central Kansas Library System

"Mike worries that he's cheating when his dog tells him the other football team's game plans."--

In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grownups' discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend's toy plastic doctors to save wounded people from the dangerous world of the Old West which the cupboard enables them to enter.

One dark and noisy night the Fraidy Cats let their imaginations run wild, visualizing scary things from wild elephants to hungry wolves.

A group of costumed mice are frolicking in the pumpkin patch when they hear the swish, swish of a creeping cat. Off they run, but they don't just turn tail. Using a light and a mask, they throw a shadow that frightens away the cat for good. Simple sentences and lots of onomatopoeia make the text as appealing as the energetic watercolor-and-pen artwork. A fun read for Halloween story hours

Learn about rain forests and the plants and animals that live in them.

This book includes brief profiles of such hard-hitting baseball players as Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Hank Aaron.

When Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, Duck makes trouble by changing all his instructions to notes the animals like much better.

Discusses the work of paleontologists searching in the Sahara desert for dinosaur fossils in 2000.

"Magic Matt can do magic. But sometimes, he makes mistakes. This funny story is for new readers like you." He wants a jack o' lantern. Instead, he conjures up a boy named Jack, who leads Matt up a beanstalk and face-to-face with a giant! This funny story has a phonics component that offers reading practice for the newest readers. Author Grace Maccarone and illustrator Norman Bridwell have many years of experience creating best-selling books for children....

On his visit to Chicago, Buster makes a new friend and sends postcards back home.