Gary McGivney

It's Christmas Eve and all the children around the world are asleep and dreaming of the toys that Santa Claus will bring - except at the South Pole, where they've never celebrated Christmas. This year Santa Claus asks Santabear to deliver his toys to the South Pole, so that the children there will also believe in the magic of Christmas. But when the naughty Bullybear steals Santabear's bag of toys and his identity, all chances for a merry Christmas seem lost. Luckily, Santabear meets Missy Bear, and together they take to the skies to stop Bullybear before he destroys all the toys and ruins Christmas at the South Pole forever!

To keep from being eaten, a resourceful inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

After several attempts of being unable to reach the moon, the kitten returns home and finds a bowl of milk waiting for her.

Told in the voice of a cool cat named Scat, this dramatic story tells how Ella got her sound on the way to a most remarkable and inspiring career.

When class bully Irwin taunts Violet about her fat knees (they're not) or deadly sewer gas smell (she doesn't), all she wants to do is shrink away. The thought of being in the class play about the solar system makes her itch and scratch and twirl her hair. But when she's alone or with her best friend, Opal, Violet is a master performer, mimicking her classmates and retaliating against Irwin with razor-sharp wit. Her chance for real-life revenge comes at last during the play, when she plays the offstage role of Lady Space. On opening night, when Irwin, a.k.a. Mars, starts to spin out of control and forgets his lines, Violet saves the day (but not without a little of her savage humor).

In the time-honored tradition of political commentary, the public and private lives of forty-two Presidents with humor and flair.

Follow two youngsters in a celebration of their ancestors on this vibrant Latin American holiday. Luscious collage illustrations and poetic text create a colorful tribute.

A girl dreams of creating a garden full of chocolate rabbits, flowers that change colors, seashells and tomatoes the size of beach balls.

Pretty ladybugs, fluttering butterflies, creepy daddy longlegs, and roly-poly bugs are some of the familiar creatures featured in this insect album. Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! will inform and entertain curious little bug lovers everywhere.

Filled with incredible fishy facts about vertebrates, invertebrates, endoskeletons, and exoskeletons, plus an underwater informational chart, Sea Bones will make young readers want to dive right in!

Senator Ted Kennedy and his dog, Splash, invite children along on a typical whirlwind day on Capitol Hill.

In this lively story, children take a colorful ride through outer space to visit distant planets and dazzling stars.

based on the book by Tomie dePaola

An endearing adventure when a boy decides a penguin would make a fantastic pet! An animated film based on the Caldecott Honor and New York Times Bestelling book written by Tony Buzzeo and illustrated by David Small.

The classic children's ditty comes to glorious life with Paul O. Zelinsky's eye-popping art and a lively musical score by The Bacon Brothers.

Full of fun dinosaur facts, this production will make dino-fans of kids and grown-ups alike.

In DEM BONES, A skeleton band supplies words and music to the well-known song based on the African-American spiritual. In DINOSAUR BONES, fun dinosaur facts will make dino-fans of kids and adults too!

No bones about it, this will be a real boost for those looking to inject a little humor and fun into basic facts about the human body.