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Spend quality time with your little ones as you listen to these poems with newborns and young kids. This book is organized so that you and your baby can enjoy a poem every day of the year. With poetry, you will stimulate the early development of literacy skills and build your baby's vocabulary and imagination. Whether you're soothing your baby to sleep or it's story time, there is a poem to make every day special.

Embark on a delightful adventure with The Little Gingerbread Man by George Haven Putnam, a timeless tale of whimsy and charm. When a mischievous Gingerbread Man comes to life, he sets off on a lively journey through the countryside, evading everyone he meets with his quick wit and speedy legs. Along the way, he encounters a cast of colorful characters, each eager to catch him—until a clever fox changes everything.

Learn more about haiku, which are short poems, written in a style created in Japan more than 400 years ago.

Poems can sweep us away to fantasy lands or long-ago times, or show us everyday people and creatures in a whole new light. In this new recording, master storyteller Jim Weiss introduces children to the magic of poetry, performing 40 classic poems, and providing brief introductions to the poets, including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, E.E. Cummings, and many more.

Cows in the meadow, cows on the hill, cows peeking over the windowsill! Babies and toddlers will enjoy this funny rhyming poem about the silly things cows do on their farm.

Step into the heart of Barnes and Hammersmith with The Bridge, a captivating tale of friendship and school days, resilience, calamities and community. This children’s book follows Lulu, a spirited schoolgirl whose daily walk across the iconic Hammersmith Bridge takes her on adventures big and small. But when the bridge is suddenly closed, Lulu’s world is turned upside down.

Meet Fantastic Daisy Artichoke. She's got three fat cats we like to stroke and a pond in which she likes to soak. She isn't quite like other folk!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Patrick! For when he plays his violin, the most extraordinary things start to happen: fish can fly, and cows can dance, and trees grow cakes instead of apples. There's fireworks and fun and colours everywhere, when Patrick performs his magical tunes.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. Young minds will stay busy in these wonderful book learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one forth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first forth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

When eleven-year-old Amal and her family inherit a house from a long lost relative, they can't believe their luck. But only Amal seems to notice there's anything unusual about it. Like the way the beds make themselves or the dishes never need cleaning, almost as if the house is taking care of them... But then a mysterious woman arrives claiming she is the house's true owner - and she gives Amal's family four weeks to leave before she demolishes it completely.

A dazzling collection of over sixty poems, Follow That Word delivers John Agard's musings on people and places from the modern and historical world; this wonderful collection that can be rediscovered over and over again. These poems truly come to life for all children, and this collection belongs on every bookshelf.

This dual-language, poetic book for babies and toddlers celebrates every child and the joy babies bring into the world. In English and Plains Cree.

As the itsy bitsy spider struggles, Pete and his friends know just what to do to help out!