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Cool Ways to Tie Your Shoes

Cool Ways to Tie Your Shoes

Applesauce Press
$16.95

Untie the patterns to the coolest shoes around with 20 unique styles in Cool Ways to Tie Your Shoes!

Express your creativity through your laces with 20 unique styles in Cool Ways to Tie Your Shoes! Learn these simple but impressive techniques and become a shoe tying pro using the shoelaces that come with this book. This easy-to-follow visual guide walks you through stylish and unique patterns with pictures for every twist of a lace. Try out countless new designs and take your shoes from so-so to fantastic with funky designs kids will love and unique patterns even teenagers will enjoy, including:

  • Lattice Lacing
  • Double X Lacing
  • Loop Back Lacing
  • Super Star
  • Bar Lacing
  • Beautiful Bows
  • Diamond Laces
  • Ladder Laces
  • Basket Weave Laces
  • Sunburst Laces
  • Zipper Laces
  • This unique book design will stand out on the shelf, and is the perfect gift for kids learning to tie their shoes, adolescents looking for creative new ways to style their laces, and Sneakerheads alike! Make your shoes stand out in a crowd. With Cool Ways to Tie Your Shoes you'll never have boring laces again.

    Bunnies on the Bus

    Bunnies on the Bus

    Ardagh, Philip
    $8.99
    "Brimming with action, colorful details, and rambunctious fun. This rollicking picture book is best read aloud. . . . It's a cautionary tale: if bunnies board your bus, expect pandemonium." --Booklist

    Bunnies on the bus!
    Bunnies on the bus!
    No wonder there's a fuss
    about the bunnies on the bus!

    There are bunnies on the bus, and they're causing mayhem in Sunny Town! Watch as they whiz past the bus stop, fly by the swings, and zoom over the crosswalk--these bunnies aren't stopping for anyone. They finally reach the station, but where are they hopping off to now? Uh-oh . . . Acclaimed author Philip Ardagh's rhyming, high-energy text and "Bunnies on the bus!" refrain is ideal for library or classroom read-alouds, and Ben Mantle's colorful illustrations are chock-full of zany details perfect for repeat reads.

    Poo-Dunit?

    Poo-Dunit?

    Aronson, Katelyn
    $17.99
    This rollicking, rhyming tale of animal poo will have children squealing with laughter--even as they learn about forest ecosystems and discover surprising facts about scat.

    Sniff, sniff! went Mouse. Whiff, whiff! went Mouse.
    "Who left this poo outside my house? I must undo this mystery. Poo-dunit?"

    Mouse is dismayed to step outside her house one morning only to discover a giant pile of poo! Who could have done such a dastardly deed? Mouse questions all the animals of the forest, but it's too big to be Squirrel's, too dark to be Coyote's, and too messy to be Deer's. Will Mouse ever track down the culprit--and will she find a way to make the best of this smelly situation? Between giggles at every mention of the word poo, children will learn to identify eight different animals' scat and discover how droppings can help plants to grow, all while enjoying Katelyn Aronson's rhyming text and Stephanie Laberis's expressive animals. Back matter includes a mini "poo-dunit" mystery challenging children to match scat with the correct animal, as well as a note on why poo is precious--and who is responsible for the biggest poo of all.

    Where's the Fire Truck?

    Where's the Fire Truck?

    Arrhenius, Ingela
    $8.99
    Five beautifully illustrated spreads show a series of vehicles that include a police car, an ambulance, a helicopter, and a fire truck all hiding behind bright felt flaps. With a mirror on the final page, this is the perfect book to share with very little ones.
    Legendary Creatures

    Legendary Creatures

    Auerbach, Adam
    $18.99

    A vibrantly illustrated, imaginative picture book featuring mythological creatures drawn from diverse cultural traditions.

    From the vicious three-headed Chimera of ancient Greece to the peaceful Navagunjara of India-- a creature made from parts from nine different animals--to the awe-inspiring dragons of Europe and East Asia, this exciting introduction to mythological creatures celebrates the wondrous beings featured in stories from all over the world. Including a vast array of fierce monsters, powerful spirits, ancient gods, and helpful beasts, Legendary Creatures is the perfect primer to engage young readers interested in the fascinating world of mythology.

    Tiny Floating Coral (Start Small, Think Big #3)

    Tiny Floating Coral (Start Small, Think Big #3)

    Auld, Mary
    $15.99
    Follow the life cycle of a tiny coral planula and learn the broader impact of coral reefs on the health of our oceans

    Tiny Floating Coral starts small with a tiny coral planula floating through the ocean in a soup of plankton, looking for the perfect place to settle, divide, and grow. It finds a place on a healthy reef off the coast of Australia. Learn about the remarkable life of coral, how it feeds, starts a colony and becomes a part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef--a vast underwater city where other animals live, feed, hide, and bring up their young. The story's narrative progresses in a way that builds understanding, and the delicate illustrations bring the story to life. Thinking BIG, the book highlights that 25 percent of marine life relies on the world's coral reefs, and the big foldout map shows where they can be found. There is also an illustrated life cycle, and a Reef I-Spy to take children back into the book to deepen the learning experience. The books features a large foldout illustration on the final pages and a die-cut hole, highlighting the coral, on the front cover.

    Willa the Wisp (the Fabled Stables Book #1)

    Willa the Wisp (the Fabled Stables Book #1)

    Auxier, Jonathan
    $12.99
    A new, fully illustrated chapter book series from New York Times-bestselling author Jonathan Auxier!

    Welcome to the Fabled Stables, a magical building filled with one-of-a-kind creatures. Creatures including the Gargantula, the Yawning Abyss, the Hippopotamouse . . . and Auggie. Auggie is the only human boy at the Stables, and he takes care of all the other animals. The Fabled Stables have a mind of their own, and every so often, the building SHAKES and SHUDDERS, TWITCHES and SPUTTERS--it's making room for a new arrival! It's Auggie's job to venture out and rescue a new creature from mortal danger. But will he be able to complete his mission before it's too late? With some help from Fen (a literal stick-in-the-mud) and his animal companions, Auggie saves the day and makes a new friend in the process.

    Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

    Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

    Bader, Bonnie
    $5.99
    The story of one of the most influential civil rights activist of our time.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining nonviolent and peaceful tactics even when his life was threatened, King was also an advocate for the poor and spoke out against racial and economic injustice until his death--from an assassin's bullet--in 1968. With clearly written text that explains this tumultuous time in history and 80 black-and-white illustrations, this Who Was? celebrates the vision and the legacy of a remarkable man.

    Crossing the Stream

    Crossing the Stream

    Baitie, Elizabeth-Irene
    $9.95

    Ato hasn't visited his grandmother's house since he was seven. He's heard the rumors that she's a witch, and his mother has told him he must never sit on the old couch on her porch. Now here he is, on that exact couch, with a strange-looking drink his grandmother has given him, wondering if the rumors are true. What's more, there's a freshly dug hole in her yard that Ato suspects may be a grave meant for him.

    Meanwhile at school, Ato and his friends have entered a competition to win entry to Nnoma, the island bird sanctuary that Ato's father helped created. But something is poisoning the community garden where their project is housed, and Ato sets out to track down the culprit. In doing so, he brings his estranged mother and grandmother back together, and begins healing the wounds left on the family by his father's death years before.

    And that hole in the yard? It is a grave, but not for the purpose Ato feared, and its use brings a tender, celebratory ending to this deeply felt and universal story of healing and love from one of Ghana's most admired children's book authors.

    F.A.R.T.

    F.A.R.T.

    Bakalian, Peter
    $13.99
    When a young teen discovers a top-secret parenting manual, it's kids versus grown-ups in this kooky, illustrated middle grade thriller with nonstop, seat-of-your-pants action that will delight fans of Jarrett Lerner and Stuart Gibbs.

    When a tween boy [Codename: Furious Popcorn] picks up what he thinks is a cookbook and finds a diabolical parenting manual, his world turns upside down. The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Your Kids was written by an organization called F.A.R.T. (Families Against Rotten Teens), a secret society of grizzled parents whose origins date back to antiquity.

    FP is determined to get to the bottom of this, but when he begins investigating F.A.R.T., the manual goes missing, his parents deny knowing anything about any kind of book, and--maybe strangest of all--kids at school start listening to their parents and teachers. What kid would ever do that?

    F.A.R.T. proves to be more than just some gassy acronym and parental rules and regulations when FP and the Only Onlys, his best friends since preschool, discover F.A.R.T.'s grand plan: a brain modem that can turn kids into well-behaved zombies!

    This wacky crew has no choice but to find out who's behind the nefarious organization and save young people the world over from total F.A.R.T. domination!