Our poor counter just wants to count her ten elephants, but - POOF! - her magician friend is making it impossible. Ten, nine, eight... each time we get back to counting, one of the elephants has been changed into something unexpected. Puppies, frogs, peanut butter and jelly and, of course, a rabbit and a hat appear and disappear in this funny, fast-paced story.

Turn "Ho ho ho" into "Ha ha ha" with this zany Christmas picture book featuring Santa, Bigfoot, Little Red Riding Hood, unicorns, dragons, and more! In Once Upon a Christmas, the Three Bears' Christmas party gets off to a rocky start: Bigfoot can't stop photobombing, the dragon burns the fruitcake, and Jack Frost inadvertently triggers the storm of the century-knocking Santa's sleigh off course and straight into a lake! A soaked St. Nick finds eager helpers in the partygoers, a varied cast of mythical creatures and familiar fictional favorites. The unlikely team rescues the sleigh, just in time to continue the festivities and get Santa on his merry way. Humorous twists and action-packed illustrations will make this story an instant family classic for the Christmas season.

Bo just wants to fall asleep before Santa comes, but when the sheep he's counting rebel and wreak havoc around the house, Christmas Eve starts to go baa-dly wrong.

It's Christmas Eve and Bo can't sleep, so he starts counting sheep. But when the sheep get bored, they scatter, wreaking holiday mayhem all over the house. "Sheep 4 gnaws the stockings--leaves holes in the toes; 5 swallows some garland, and tinsel, and bows!" Children can count along with Bo as he finds the 10 mischievous sheep misbehaving throughout the house. With a house full of sheep and a mess to clean, will Bo get to sleep before Santa comes? Find out in this hilarious story of a night before Christmas gone wrong. With exuberant verse and comical illustrations, this book will have children begging for repeat readings.

Count the sheep--and the laughs--in this hilarious follow-up to picture book The Night Baafore Christmas. With sheep misbehaving all over the house, will Bo get to sleep before the Easter Bunny comes? In this humorous tale of an Easter Eve gone wrong, Bo just wants to fall asleep so Easter Day--and the Easter Bunny--will come faster. But when he tries counting sheep, the sheep get bored and scatter, and chaos ensues: "Sheep 5 juggles eggs, tossing ten in the air. He misses. They crash and get crushed in Bo's hair." Children can count along with Bo as he finds the 10 mischievous sheep misbehaving throughout the house. With a house full of sheep and a mess to clean, will Bo get to sleep before the Easter Bunny comes? Find out in this hilarious story of a night before Easter gone wrong. With exuberant verse and comical illustrations, this book will have children begging for repeat readings.

The sheep won't let Bo sleep in this hilarious tale of what can go wrong when the sheep you count run amok the night before the first day of school. Anxious for the first day of school, Bo just wants to fall asleep so he'll be ready for the day. But when he tries counting sheep, the sheep get bored and scatter, and chaos ensues: "Sheep 5 snags a lunch bag and makes a strange creature. 6 swallows the apple Bo picked for his teacher. Sheep 7 grips scissors, and piece after piece, she snips and she clips, and she trims the flock's fleece." Children can count along with Bo as he finds the 10 mischievous sheep misbehaving throughout the house. With a house full of sheep and a mess to clean, will Bo get enough sleep before his big day? With 10 out-of-control sheep and the beleaguered Bo, this action-packed story will provide comic relief for anyone who might be a little nervous about the first day of school.

Christian is the story of a young boy who comes to the rescue of a little girl being bullied. He recalls and teaches Camille some valuable lessons he has learned from his favorite teacher, Mrs. Good Choice.

Diet Plans The Best One For You There are so many different diet plans on the market today. Fads and trends come and go within the diet realm just like fashion jeans and shoes. What is "in" today may be out tomorrow. Two diets that are receiving positive reviews these days are the Mediterranean Diet and the Paleo Diet, each of these offers easy diet plans for busy lifestyles. Good diet plans enable a person to fit the diet within their schedules, with ease, and to acquire good results in a determined amount of time. The best diet plan will have you losing weight at a steady pace, helping you to develop good eating habits and maintaining a healthy change of lifestyle. A good weight loss diet plan such as what the Paleo diet plan is among the best diet plans for women. It helps to start weight loss with a jumpstart, then it helps the body to become accustomed to the new healthy diet plans, and as time moves on, more foods are added back as maintenance to ongoing weight loss.

What do women nearing age 50 want to do in their second adulthood? We want to own and ride a horse This is the pathetic, dramatic and humorous story of a mid life journey with horses from Ker-Splat to finding blue ribbons, trail riding, cow working and showing with Missouri Fox Trotter gaited horses.

"The Colors of Christmas" is a collection of vignettes that gives a glimpse into complex human relationships across the distance of many eras.

The stories center on the Christmas holidays, and shows how relations between African Americans and whites can improve through understanding and friendship. It is 1860 and Rebecca's father is about to announce her engagement to the dashing Josh Gordon at a lavish ball. But Rebecca is torn between her true commitment to Josh and her devoted friendship to Ben, her servant's son. A Christmas star symbolizes how Rebecca's loyalty can overcome even the bonds imposed by slavery.

During the Great Depression, Emily Gordon is taught that the true Christmas spirit is expressed by sharing what her family has with the family of an African American woman who washes their clothes.

In 1972, Eddie Fraser, An African American policeman in New York City thwarts a carjacker and saves the life of a little white girl that clings to him for safety.

In 2006, an aging man forgives his daughter for marrying a black man, and comes to return the love of her stepdaughter who is devoted to him.

From the Civil War time to present day two families co-exist throughout different eras. Although they have different skin color and are accepted by society in a diverse manner, they have one thing in common: to achieve consideration and approval for all human beings.

Even after their deaths, Rebecca and Ben presents the hope they shared for one another to the generations that followed.