Mecha Elmo, Mecha Abby, and Mecha Cookie Monster have a very attractive problem to solve! When a super-duper magnet at a construction site accidentally turns on, attracting all the metal in the city, the Mechas are ready to help. But the robot friends are made of metal, too! The mighty Mecha Builders try different plans and they don't give up until the problem is solved. This Step 2 Step Into Reading Comic Reader features word balloons and eye-catching graphic panels. Based on an episode of Mecha Builders, from the creators of Sesame Street.

A new silly and spooky highly illustrated series that's perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book! Cousins Malia, Ivan, and Dante are visiting their aunt Lucy for the summer. But on their way to Gulf City's water park, they get lost on 13th Street. Only it's not a street at all. It's a strange world filled with dangerous beasts! Will the cousins find their way back to Aunt Lucy's? Each story in this hilarious and scary new series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success-with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

A silly and spooky highly illustrated series that's perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book! Cousins Malia, Dante, and Ivan are looking for a portal to 13th Street. They need to help their new friend Mickey find his way home! But waiting for them are sharks that can shock them with an electric charge. Can the cousins reach Mickey before it's too late? Each story in this hilarious and safely spooky series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success-with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

A silly and spooky highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book!

Malia, Dante, and Ivan are ready to take on the evil forces controlling 13th Street. But then Ivan is kidnapped by giant—and stinky!—spiders. Can Malia and Dante save him from their sticky webs?

Each story in this hilarious and mildly scary series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success—with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. Meet Map Man, a superhero who finds people in trouble using the maps on his tablet and zooms off to save them! This exciting adventure story is wonderfully illustrated in a graphic novel style. This Big Book version of Map Man is a large book (499 x 510 mm) designed for use in a reading session with a group of children and includes shared reading activities. Chant and Chatter books are written especially for the Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds series at Book Band Pink. The narratives and non-fiction texts are formed through three short, rhythmic chants, allowing the demonstration and modelling of fluent reading and supporting children in learning Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds. The sounds in this book are: /s/ /a/ /t/ /p/ /i/ /n/ /m/ /d/ Pages 14 and 15 contain an "I Spy" feature with a specific phoneme focus, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

A silly and spooky new highly illustrated series that's perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book! Ivan, Malia, and Dante are excited about their ski trip. There's no chance they'll stumble onto 13th Street in the mountains, right? WRONG! After being sucked through a portal, the cousins come face-to-face with joke-telling cougars that are more dangerous than they seem. How will the kids get out of trouble this time? Each story in this hilarious and scary new series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success-with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

A silly and spooky new highly illustrated series that's perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book! Cousins Dante, Malia, and Ivan are happy to be back in their home town. But then their school bus takes a wrong turn and they end up on 13th Street! There are new monsters to fight, but at least they have their friend Susana and their bus driver to help them. Will the gang ever make it to their first day of class? Each story in this hilarious and scary new series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success-with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

Mecha Elmo, Mecha Abby, and Mecha Cookie Monster help chickens speed across the finish line! The chickens are ready to race in the Chicken Roll, but the race gets off to a slow start when the chickens don't roll. The Mechas realize that gravity will start the race so they build the perfect ramp and solve the problem! This Step 2 Step Into Reading Comic Reader features word balloons and eye-catching graphic panels. Based on an episode of Mecha Builders, from the creators of Sesame Street.

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. Meet Map Man, a superhero who finds people in trouble using the maps on his tablet and zooms off to save them! This exciting adventure story is wonderfully illustrated in a graphic novel style. Chant and Chatter books are written especially for the Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds series at Book Band Pink. The narratives and non-fiction texts are formed through three short, rhythmic chants, allowing the demonstration and modelling of fluent reading and supporting children in learning Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds. The sounds in this book are: /s/ /a/ /t/ /p/ /i/ /n/ /m/ /d/ Pages 14 and 15 contain an "I Spy" feature with a specific phoneme focus, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

Take a trip down Sesame Street and meet all your favorite characters in this innovative board book by pop-up wizard Matthew Reinhart--and then watch as it transforms into a 3-D street scene! Join Big Bird, Abby Cadabby, Elmo, Grover, and the rest of your favorite Sesame Street characters in this all-new 3-D board book! Open doors to peek inside shops, pull tabs to say hi to Rosita and Ji-Young, and lift the flaps to learn the alphabet along the way. When the story is over, follow simple instructions to transform the pages of the book into a three-dimensional block party. This interactive board book from bestselling pop-up creator Matthew Reinhart makes learning fun. Don't miss the other books in the innovative Pop Magic series, which feature vehicles, colors, and more!

The corporate world is filled with men and women who have worked hard to reach upper level management. They're intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small transactional flaws performed by one person against another that, using Goldsmith's straightforward, jargonfree advice, are easy behaviors to change. EDITORIAL REVIEWS: From Publishers Weekly Goldsmith, an executive coach to the corporate elite, pinpoints 20 bad habits that stifle already successful careers as well as personal goals like succeeding in marriage or as a parent. Most are common behavioral problems, such as speaking when angry, which even the author is prone to do when dealing with a teenage daughter's belly ring. Though Goldsmith deals with touchy-feely material more typical of a self-help book such as learning to listen or letting go of the past his approach to curing self-destructive behavior is much harder-edged. For instance, he does not suggest sensitivity training for those prone to voicing morale-deflating sarcasm. His advice is to stop doing it. To stimulate behavior change, he suggests imposing fines (e.g., $10 for each infraction), asserting that monetary penalties can yield results by lunchtime. While Goldsmith's advice applies to everyone, the highly successful audience he targets may be the least likely to seek out his book without a direct order from someone higher up. As he points out, they are apt to attribute their success to their bad behavior. Still, that may allow the less successful to gain ground by improving their people skills first. (Jan. 2) Copyright (c) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Booklist By now, the CEO as celebrity is old hat. (Just start counting the books from former company heads.) That goes for the executive-recruiter-cum-president-makers. What has yet to be explored--until now--is the celebrity business coach, the individual who helps C-level executives correct flaws, whether invisible or public. A frequent interviewee in major business magazines like Fortune, Goldsmith, with the sage help and advice of his collaborator Reiter, pens a self-help career book, filled with disguised anecdotes and candid dialogue, all soon slated for bestsellerdom. His steps in coaching for success are simple, honest, without artifice: gather feedback from appropriate colleagues and cohorts, determine which behaviors to change (and remember, Goldsmith specifically focuses on behavior, not skills or knowledge), apologize, advertise, listen, thank, follow up, and practice feed-forward. Admittedly, this shrewd organizational psychologist only works with leaders he knows will listen, follow advice, and change--especially considering that he doesn't receive fees until improvements are secure and visible. On the other hand, these are words and processes anyone will benefit from, whether wannabe manager or senior executive. Barbara Jacobs Copyright (c) American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edit

Deep under Electropolis, Sludge is watching from the Fartress of Foulitude as his arch enemies, the Clean Team, are awarded the Key to the City. Disgusted by the sanitary ceremony, the master of muck sets out to put his squeaky-clean rivals in their place for good! Will the Snot-Bot leader’s fiendish scheme succeed? Or will the Clean Team foil his plot before his filthy crew can ruin the city? Featuring action-packed text and fantastically colourful and disgusting robot characters, this insanely funny chapter book is certain to attract gross-out fans of all ages!

Sludge is sick of the Clean Team foiling his attempts to turn Electropolis into his own putrid playground. So he hatches his most cunning plan yet. He sends one of the Snot-Bots in disguise as a rookie bot named Bit-Con to join his enemies, the Clean Team. It doesn’t take long for the sickening spy to turn the Clean Team’s headquarters into a slime-covered disaster. Will the defenders of cleanliness discover the spy in their midst? Or will Sludge’s crafty con work to finally defeat his fearless foes? Featuring action-packed text and fantastically colourful and disgusting robot characters, this insanely funny chapter book is certain to attract gross-out fans of all ages!