Central Kansas Library System

Word Bird puts words about Christmas in his word house--North Pole, reindeer, candy canes, stockings, and others. Catch everyone's favorite little bird with a colorful, modern look! These updated versions of Jane Belk Moncure's popular beginner books from the 1980s reflect current educational standards as well as social and cultural changes. The clear, clean typeface and dynamic illustrations encourage today's kids to try their wings in fun, learn-to-read...

Word Bird puts words about Halloween in his word house, introducing such words as 'witches,' 'costumes,' and 'masks.' Catch everyone's favorite little bird with a colorful, modern look! These updated versions of Jane Belk Moncure's popular beginner books from the 1980s reflect current educational standards as well as social and cultural changes. The clear, clean typeface and dynamic illustrations encourage today's kids to try their wings in fun, learn-to-read...

Word Bird puts words about Thanksgiving in his word house--Pilgrims, Indian corn, wigwam, pumpkin pie, and others. Catch everyone's favorite little bird with a colorful, modern look! These updated versions of Jane Belk Moncure's popular beginner books from the 1980s reflect current educational standards as well as social and cultural changes. The clear, clean typeface and dynamic illustrations encourage today's kids to try their wings in fun, learn-to-read...

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...

"Have you ever heard of a prickle of porcupines? Or a tower of giraffes? What about a parcel of penguins? This ... romp through the animal kingdom introduces collective nouns for animals through wordplay"--Amazon.com.

A young girl who uses fancy words and considers herself practically a poison ivy expert learns a valuable (and itchy) lesson about the plant after picking a bouquet of wildflowers in her backyard.

What a child does in the course of a simple happy day.

Word Bird makes a Valentine Word House, in which he puts special words related to that season. Illustrations help the reader define the words introduced.

Mirabel, a goose, and her friend, Maxie, a frog, get a scare one day when a king cobra escapes from the zoo.