Everybody's favorite bunnies celebrate Christmas and Valentine's Day in two adorable shaped board books just right for toddlers. When Santa mixes up their stockings, Max and Ruby are in for a big surprise on Christmas morning! And when Ruby uses all the candy to make her Valentine cards, Grandma makes sure Max gets a very special treat. Sturdy pages, simple stories, and colorful illustrations make these two books a perfect introduction to the world of Max and Ruby.

This special reformatted edition commemorates the fifth anniversary of the original publication of the highly successful READ TO YOUR BUNNY--now available in a fun laptime board book
Read to your bunny often / It's twenty minutes of fun.
It's twenty minutes of moonlight / And twenty minutes of sun.
Twenty old-favorite minutes / Twenty minutes brand-new,
Read to you bunny often / and...your bunny will read to you.
Scholastic is celebrating the fifth anniversary of READ TO YOUR BUNNY, a book that kicked off a literacy campaign at the White House. It is reformatted in a big lap-sized board book for parents to read to their little ones. Wells' sweet, rhyming text encourages parents to read to their children for twenty minutes every day and see the magic of reading begin.

This "tidy, efficient" (School Library Journal, starred review), and endlessly satisfying picture book from beloved creator Rosemary Wells is the perfect tool for introducing baby and toddlers to language with witty humor and mischievous fun! Little ones will delight in the imaginative illustrations that introduce each word and phrase in this pitch-perfect read aloud. The parts of speech, numbers, colors, actions, animal sounds, greetings, and descriptions of time in this book have been carefully selected as a foundation for babies and toddlers to begin understanding the words they're showered with daily.

Max's room is a mess! There's a Popsicle melting in the closet, a tube of opened Miracle Bubbles on the floor, and the ant farm ants have escaped under the bed! It's definitely time to clean up. Max's sister, Ruby, is quick to take charge, and of course Max wants to help. But Max has his own ideas about picking up his room, so things don't turn out exactly as Ruby planned. Children will cheer as Max innocently and humorously outsmarts his older sister once again.

Mmm, Yoko's mom has packed her favorite for lunch today-sushi! But her classmates don't think it looks quite so yummy. "Ick!" says one of the Franks. "It's seaweed!" They're not even impressed by her red bean ice cream dessert. Of course, Mrs. Jenkins has a plan that might solve Yoko's problem. But will it work with the other children in class? Now in paperback for the first time, this tender story from Rosemary Wells demonstrates the author's uncanny understanding of the pleasures and pains of an ordinary school day.

The three original beloved Bunny Planet stories are now available in a single-volume gift edition with magnetic closure and ribbon place marker. Featuring full-color illustrations and a new poem introducing Janet the Bunny Queen, it's a must-have for anyone who occasionally needs to be transported from mundane reality to "the day that should have been" on a happy planet where life is exactly as you want it to be.

Timothy is very excited about starting school--until he meets Claude. Claude sits next to him, and he wears all the right clothes, says all the right things, and garners all the praise from his teacher and classmates. Timothy is feeling down, until he meets a girl who's having the same problem with her seatmate.... "Children will easily relate to this tale, in which humor and realism effectively mesh." --Booklist, starred review

It's Grandma's birthday, and Max wants to make her an icky, worm-infested cake. But Ruby says, "No, Max. We are going to make Grandma an angel surprise cake, with raspberry-fluff icing." Will Max let his bossy older sister keep him out of the kitchen? Or will they both become bunnies who bake?

Introduces the numbers one through ten as Max finally trades all his toys for his sister's doll.

For Grandma's birthday, Max and Ruby have a walletful of bills and very different ideas about the perfect present. Big sister Ruby favors a ballerina box; Max knows Grandma would love some ooey-gooey vampire teeth. But as rambunctious Max gets hungry, thirsty, and messy, the bunny siblings may not end up with enough money to buy anything...

All Max wants to do is eat the chocolate chicken that someone left in the birdbath one fine spring morning. But "wait, Max," his sister Ruby says, "First we go on an egg hunt." Max does his best to play along, but when Ruby finds all the eggs-and he finds only ants and acorns-he shows her what can happen when you put all your eggs in one basket!

It's Grandma's birthday, and Max wants to make her an icky, worm-infested cake. But Ruby says, "No, Max. We are going to make Grandma an angel surprise cake, with raspberry-fluff icing." Will Max let his bossy older sister keep him out of the kitchen? Or will they both become bunnies who bake?

An illustrated version of the children's song about a dog named Bingo.

Everybody loves Max and Ruby-and what toddler could resist these adorable shaped board books? Cut in the shape of Rosemary Well's beloved bunny siblings and filled with simple text and colorful illustrations on every page, these two books are guaranteed to delight the very youngest Max and Ruby fans, who can now follow the bunnies' adventures on daily television.

Presents more than sixty traditional nursery rhymes, including "Old Mother Hubbard," "I'm a Little Teapot," and "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe," accompanied by illustrations of various animals.

Nancye Stuart was born in Natal, South Africa, in 1871, and spent her childhood both there and in Zululand so she was used to Africa and its people. She led an interesting domestic and social life in her teenage years - much of it involved with the military owing to the many tragic wars going on around them. She was not, however, expecting the very different life she was to lead after her marriage in 1896 when she found herself one of the few women following in the footsteps of the original pioneers who ventured north into the country that was then Southern Rhodesia. She wrote about many of her experiences in diaries and letters which describe in a charmingly modest, matter of fact style, the hazardous journeys in mule-wagons, and the primitive living conditions in which she gave birth to her four children. Although enduring constant bouts of malaria, often during periods of drought and food shortages 'until Mafeking was relieved,' she seldom mentions these or the difficulties of trying to feed and clothe her family. Names of people and places now remembered in school history books - Cecil Rhodes, Baden-Powell, Bishop Colenso, Rorke's Drift, and many others appear casually among the day to day stories. Using many of these diary entries and memories contributed by members of Nancye's family, the author presents a vivid account of the life of this very brave, but very Gentle Pioneer.

Learn to read with beloved bunnies Max and Ruby in this fun rhyming story! Max waves good-bye to his parents, boards the bus with Ruby, and heads to school with his book and lunch box in tow. There he sings songs, paints pictures, and even gets to dress up like a pirate! Once the day comes to an end, Max can't wait to do it all over again!

Yoko and her mama are going on a trip to Japan Yoko helps Mama get to and through the airport by reading signs along the way. By the time they get to their gate, Mama is exhausted. While Mama naps, Yoko goes to the washroom. But "Oh, no " Yoko takes the wrong exit and finds herself in a completely different part of the terminal. Before she knows it, Yoko is on the moving walkway, zipping toward Baggage Claim. Will she be able to follow the signs back to her mama?
With her flair for sly humor, Rosemary Wells defuses an anxious situation by keeping Yoko cool and confident, unlike poor Mama Readers will enjoy reading the signs along with Yoko in this happy-ending story about navigating a very big but very friendly airport.

A beloved nursery rhyme classic to put your child on the road to reading!

Rosemary Wells, one of America's foremost creators of children's books, will have the very youngest child turning pages and remembering the words. What better way instill a lifetime love of reading and learning?