Rosemary Wells

Rosemary Wells
Bunny Cakes
$17.00 hardcover
Lincoln and His Boys
$18.25 hardcover
Love Waves
$9.75 paperback
Max & Ruby’s Bedtime Book
$19.25 hardcover
Max & Ruby’s Treasure Hunt
$19.25 hardcover
Max & Ruby at the Warthog’s
Wedding – NEW!
$19.25 hardcover
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
raspberryfluff icing."
Will Max let
his bossy
older sister
keep him
out of the
kitchen? Or
will they
both become bunnies who bake?
"Just one more story," beg Max and Ruby, so
Grandma tells one more and then another of
their very
favorite
stories, the
ones about
the things
they did when
they were
younger
bunnies.
On the Blue Comet
$18.25 hardcover
Oscar is catapulted on an incredible train
journey from coast to coast, and from one
decade to another. Filled with suspense and
peppered with witty
encounters with
Hollywood stars and
other bigwigs of
history, this
captivating novel by
Rosemary Wells
resonates with
warmth, humor, and
the true magic of a timeless adventure.
Stella’s Starliner
$17.00 hardcover
Though she is teased about her silver trailer
home, a little
girl never loses
sight of life’s
true gifts in this
sensitive,
ultimately
uplifting story.
Here is Lincoln as seen through Willie’s eyes
and then through Tad’s. We see Lincoln rising
above his own
inborn sadness
and personal
tragedy
through his
devotion to his
sons.
Oh no! A thunderstorm has ruined the picnic
that Max and Ruby and their friends, Louise
and Lily, have planned. Now the four friends
have nothing to do. But Grandma saves the
day with an ingenious treasure hunt. The
clues are
Mother
Goose
rhymes and
jump-rope
rhymes,
and a
missing
word in
each one
leads the
bunnies to
the next clue.
Read to Your Bunny
$8.50 large board book
This simple rhyming story by bestselling
author/illustrator and reading advocate
Rosemary Wells
has become a
rallying cry for
reading aloud to
young children.
Rosemary Wells offers an ingenious way to
ease the separation anxiety many children
feel when
parents go to
work, or live
in separate
homes; when
close friends
or relatives
move, or live
far away; or
whenever a
loved one's absence calls for an extra dose of
reassurance.
Oh, no! Max has lost the wedding ring!
How can the Warthogs wedding go on
without the ring? Max and Ruby lead the
search through the grand hotel. Down to the
laundry, up to
the towers, back
to the
conservatory
they run,
following the
map in
Grandmother’s
Bunnyphone.
Sophie’s Terrible
Twos
$18.25 hardcover
Rosemary Wells captures
a Terrible Two morning
that will make both
youngsters and oldsters
laugh out loud.
Time Out for Sophie
$17.00 hardcover
Sophie means to be a good little mouse, but
she just can't resist testing the limits with her
patient parents and grandmother.
Yoko Finds Her Way
$18.25 hardcover
With her flair for sly humor, Rosemary
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.
Nick Bruel
Bad Kitty Book & CD
$18.25 hardcover
$10.75 paperback & CD
Bad Kitty Gets a Bath
$7.50 paperback
Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble
$15.00 hardcover
Kitty is at her worst in this riotous
how-to guide filled with bad smells,
cautionary
tales of
horror, and
hopefully by
the end . . .
some soap.
Kitty encounters what may be her
most formidable foe yet: her
creator! Kitty
soon learns
that feline
manipulation
works both
ways—
especially
when you're
at the wrong
end of your
author's
pencil.
Bad Kitty School Daze
$15.00 hardcover
$7.50 paperback
A Bad Kitty Christmas
$18.25 hardcover
Bad Kitty vs. Uncle Murray
$7.50 paperback
Disgruntled Kitty
Kitty and Puppy are out of control!
They're
screaming,
fighting, hissing,
and drooling all
over the house.
Time for school—
obedience
school, that is.
Can Kitty learn to
follow the rules
and make friends with the other
students or will she bring chaos to the
classroom?
runs away, and a
kind elderly
woman takes her
in. She doesn’t
have much, and
soon Kitty comes
to understand
the true meaning
of Christmas.
Kitty’s owners are taking a week off
and leaving Kitty and Puppy at home.
So who’s
going to
watch them?
Good ol’
Uncle
Murray, star
of the Fun
Facts feature
of previous
Kitty books—
the guy you thought knew everything
about cats.
The cat, with seemingly dozens of
expressions, is the star but other
aspects of
the
amusingly
silly
illustrations
have equal
weight.
There's so
much going
on here that kids will find lots to
laugh about.
Happy Birthday Bad Kitty
$7.50 paperback
It’s Bad Kitty’s
birthday, and she’s
wishing for a special
gift. If she doesn’t
get it, well . . . things
won’t be pretty for
her guests. The guest
list includes Chatty
Kitty, Strange Kitty, Stinky Kitty, and her
other neighborhood “pals.”
Bad Kitty
Plush Doll
8”
$16.00
Bob & Otto
$19.25
hardcover
Friendship
overcomes all
else in this
sweet and
funny story,
because no
matter
what happens,
". . . friends are important."
Who is Melvin Bubble?
$19.25 hardcover
This original and riotous picture book
has a lot to say-not only about
Melvin, but also
about
perspective, point
of view, and a sixand-a-half-yearold's place in the
world.
Brian Lies
Bats at the Library
$17.00 hardcover
$7.50 paperback
Join the free-for-all fun at the public
library with these book-loving bats!
Bats in the Band
NEW!
$19.25 hardcover
Join this one-of-a-kind music festival
as the bats celebrate the rhythm of
the night, and the positive power of
music
.
More!
$18.25 hardcover
One magpie,
lots of stuff,
and a few friendly mice
show us that less is
more.
This innovative and spare picture
book asks
the
question:
When is
MORE
more
than
enough?
Bats at the Beach
$18.25 hardcover
Bats at the Ballgame
$18.25 hardcover
This is the quintessential book
about going to the beach complete
with overflowing picnic baskets, kite
flying,
singing
around
the
campfire,
and
scratchy
sand in places where no sand should
be.
In sweeping compositions that
transport fans to the right side-up
and upside-down world of bats at
play,
Brian Lies
treats us
to a
whole
new
ballgame.
Finklehopper Frog
$8.50 paperback
Malcolm at Midnight
$18.25 hardcover
When Finklehopper Frog decides to
give jogging a try, everyone laughs
at his efforts. But Finklehopper
learns
that it’s
best to
be
himself
and do
what he
loves-because that’s the perfect way for
him!
A lot happens in a school when the
teachers aren't looking. After everyone
has gone home, the school comes alive
with the activities of the Midnight
Academy, a
secret society
of classroom
pets that
endeavors to
protect the
school.
Popcorn
$8.50 paperback
Pull up a chair and dig in! POPCORN
is chock-full of tidbits about one of
America's
favorite
snack
foods.
Nominated for the 2014-2015 Golden
Sower Award!
Jack Gantos
Dead End in Norvelt
2012 Newbery Medal Winner
$17.00 hardcover
$8.50 paperback
Melding the
entirely true and
the wildly
fictional, this is a
novel about an
incredible two
months for a kid
named Jack
Gantos, whose
plans for vacation excitement are
shot down when he is “grounded
for life” by his feuding parents.
From Norvelt to Nowhere
$18.25 hardcover
This rocket-paced follow-up to Dead
End in Norvelt is a raucous road
novel about roots and revenge, a
last chance at
love, and the
power of a
remarkable
friendship.
Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade
Without a Clue
$8.50 paperback
This colorful and comic collection of
interrelated stories featuring Jack
Henry is praised by Booklist for the
“hilarious, exquisitely painful, and
utterly ontarget
depiction” of
a boy’s life.
Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons
of Fifth Grade
$8.50 paperback
Jack’s New Power: Stories from
a Caribbean Year
$9.50 paperback
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
$19.25 hardcover
$8.50 paperback
Fifth-grader
Jack Henry is
hoping for
fresh
adventure
when he
moves to a
new home in
Miami with his family, but he can’t
escape his old worrying ways.
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza
NEW!
Jack Henry has
moved to the
island of
Barbados with
his offbeat family
and his secret
diary. But still he
can’t escape his
penchant for wacky misadventure.
This antic and poignant novel
portrays the humor, the off-the-wall
intensity, and
the serious
challenges that
life presents to a
kid dealing with
hyper-activity
and related
disorders
$18.25 hardcover
Joey must jump into the role of his
new baby brother’s protector—with
some
unexpected help
along the way.
The
heartbreakingly
heroic and
hilarious Joey is
certain he can
finally pull his
family together.
Rotten Ralph
$8.50 paperback
Ralph is a cat that, as his owner
Sarah puts it, "is sometimes ... very
hard to love." He delights in
tormenting those around him.
Rotten Ralph Helps Out
$4.25 paperback
Sarah is excited about her school project
on ancient Egypt. She would like Ralph’s
help. But Ralph’s idea of helping out is
no help at all. According to Sarah, the
ancient
Egyptians
believed cats
were wise and
had special
powers. Can
Rotten Ralph
prove them
right?
J. Patrick Lewis
Doodle Dandies: Poems that
Take Shape
$8.50 paperback
Everything is a Poem:
The Best of J. Patrick Lewis
$26.75 hardcover
In each selection, the essence of the
subject is captured in the typeface
used for the
words, the
shape in which
the lines are
arranged, and
through
Desimini's
brilliant mixedmedia collages.
This collection celebrates some of
his best poems for children—some
silly, some serious, some historical,
some
invention,
but all
aimed to
delight.
If You Were a Chocolate
Mustache
$20.25
hardcover
J. Patrick Lewis
displays the
breadth and
depth of his
talent, giving
readers of any and every sensibility
something to make them laugh out
loud. He stirs humor into an
astonishing array of subjects—from
animals to school to dragons to
food.
Poem-mobiles: Crazy Car Poems
$19.25 hardcover
The subtitle "Crazy Car Poems"
correctly describes the contents of
this collaboration - 22 pieces of pure
fanciful
nonsense
by two of
America's
cleverest
and most
inventive
poets
currently writing for young people.
Face Bugs
$18.25 hardcover
Readers can meet fourteen bugs in
Lewis's sly, humorous poems; gaze
upon giant close-ups of the
creatures' faces in Siskind's
photographs;
and follow
the antics of
two beetle
friends in
Kelly
Murphy's
artwork.
M is for Monster: A Fantastic
Creatures Alphabet
$18.25 hardcover
National Geographic’s
Book of Animal Poetry
$26.75 hardcover
Readers will meet creatures of popular
legends such as mummies, werewolves,
and zombies, but also lesser-known-butjust-as-menacing monsters such as the
Roc, the
giant called
Xing Tian,
the Loch
Ness
Monster, and
the Phoenix.
Monster,
mystery, and fantasy fans of all ages will
enjoy this alphabetical tribute.
Well-chosen poems are paired with
breathtaking photos of the featured
creatures,
many
depicted
in their
natural
habitats.
Tugg and Teeny
$4.25 paperback
.
Meet Tugg and Teeny. Best friends since
-- well, forever! Tugg (a gorilla) and
Teeny (a monkey) live together in their
jungle neighborhood, Sidekick Thicket.
As opposite as night and day, the two
friends work
and play
together,
each helping
the other face
life's
challenges.
World Rat Day: Poems about
Holidays
$17.00 hardcover
The fantastically zany poems of J. Patrick
Lewis and Anna Raff’s equally hilarious
illustrations have memorialized these
holidays
forever. So get
out your
calendars —
from Happy
Mew Year for
Cats Day to
ChocolateCovered
Anything Day, World Rat Day (April 4) calls
for a year-round celebration.
Jim Murphy
Across America on an Emigrant
Train
$11.75 paperback
An account of Robert Louis
Stevenson's twelve day journey
from New York to California in 1879,
interwoven with a history of the
building of the transcontinental
railroad and the settling of the
West.
The Boys’ War: Confederate and
Union Soldiers Talk About the
Civil War
$9.50 paperback
From first chapter ("So I Became a
Soldier") to last ("We're Going
Home"),
this
wrenching
look at our
nation's
bloodiest
conflict
through
the eyes of
its
youthful
participants (boys 16 years and
younger) serves up history both
heartbreaking and enlightening.
An American Plague: The True
and Terrifying Story of the
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
$20.25 hardcover
In a powerful, dramatic narrative,
critically acclaimed author Jim
Murphy
describes the
illness known
as yellow fever
and the toll it
took on the
city's residents,
relating the
epidemic to
the major
social and political events of the day
and to 18th-century medical beliefs
and practices.
The Great Fire
$13.75 paperback
Weaving together technical details
with firefighters', journalists', and
ordinary citizens' accounts of their
personal physical and emotional
traumas as they unfolded across the
24 hours of the fire, this version of
the long-mythologized event
carefully repairs earlier historians'
class- and
genderbiased
reports.
Blizzard!: The Storm That
Changed America
$14.00 paperback
‘Blizzard!’ tells the story of the
blizzard of March 12, 1888 that hit
the northeastern United States. It
was one of the worst natural
disasters in our history. The storm
brought the coast of the United
States - from Virginia to Canada to a standstill, and this retelling
based on
personal
accounts and
news stories
makes you
feel like you
are there.
Truce: The Day the Soldiers
Stopped Fighting
$11.75 paperback
On July 29th 1914, the world’s peace
was shattered as the artillery of the
Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling
the troops of the country to its south.
What
followed
was like a
row of
falling
dominoes
as one
European
country
after
another
rushed into war. Soon most of Europe
was fighting in this calamitous war that
could have been avoided. This was, of
course, the First World War.
But who could have guessed that on
December 25 the troops would openly
defy their commanding officers by
stopping the fighting and having a
spontaneous celebration of Christmas
with their "enemies"?
Floyd Cooper
A Dance Like Starlight: One
Ballerina’s
$18.25 hardcover
Ben and the Emancipation
Proclamation
$18.25 hardcover
An African American girl from
Harlem dreams of becoming a prima
ballerina in this beautifully written
narrative,
which is
also a
tribute to
Janet
Collins,
who, in
1951, was
the "first colored prima ballerina" to
perform at the Metropolitan Opera.
A self-taught young slave astonishes
his fellow prisoners by reading
aloud the newspaper account of
Lincoln’s new
emancipation
proclamation.
Based on
actual events.
In lyric, poetic language, a 1948
journey from Oklahoma to a new
home in California is described in
lush detail.
This story
captures the
sights,
sounds,
smells, and
tastes of the
experience.
Mandela
$7.50 paperback
Max and the Tag Along Moon
$18.25 hardcover
The African leader's boyhood and
education are the focus of this
"forceful,
credible
picture of a
strong and
deeply
devoted
statesman."
Max loves his grandpa. When they
must say good-bye after a visit,
Grandpa reminds Max that the moon
above
them at
Grandpa’s
house is
the same
moon that
will follow
him all the
way home.
Jump! From the Life of
Michael Jordon
$19.25 hardcover
This lovingly
rendered picture
book details the
events in
Jordan's
childhood and
adolescence
that contributed
to his basketball
stardom.
Ruth and the Green Book
$18.25 hardcover
These Hands
$18.25 hardcover
In this powerful picture book, Atlanta
playwright
Ramsey tells a
1950s story
from
“unknown
pages in
African
American
history.” Floyd
Cooper’s
glowing, unframed, sepia-toned
artwork delivers a strong sense of the
period from a child’s viewpoint.
Joseph's grandpa tells his young grandson
all the things his
hands used to be
able to do when he
was younger,
including tying
shoes and playing
the piano, shuffling
cards and throwing
a baseball. Then
grandpa shares
with Joseph the story of how black hands
were not allowed to handle bread dough
in the bread factory when he was a young
man.
In the Land of Milk and Honey
$18.25 hardcover
Dandi Mackall
A Girl Named Dan
$18.25 hardcover
My Bible Animals Storybook
$16.00 hardcover
Dandi not only enters the contest
for batboys for the Kansas City A’s -her essay wins! However, her joy is
short-lived when the contest
officials enforce the For Boys Only
rule. Dandi
Daley Mackall's
true-life story
gives voice and
testament to
the spirit of
these young
sports pioneers.
Each Bible story highlights an animal
in the story while pointing to a
powerful life application message, a
prayer, and a Bible verse.
Then, a special page is devoted to
zany facts
about animals.
The colorful
and whimsical
art adds even
more interest.
Starlight Animal Rescue series:
Mad Dog
$6.50 paperback
Starlight Animal
Rescue: Where
problem horses
are trained and
loved, where
abandoned dogs
become heroes,
where stray cats
become loyal companions.
The Secrets of Tree Taylor
$18.25 hardcover
NEW!
When a gunshot is fired right across the
street, Tree knows this is the big story
she's been
waiting for. But
the more she
goes digging, the
more secrets she
uncovers, and
soon she begins
to wonder: When
is it important to
expose the
truth? And when is it right to keep a
secret?
Larger than Life Lara
$18.25 hardcover
Laney Grafton is at the bottom of
the fourth-grade pecking order until
300-pound Lara joins the class. But
when the teasing
and practical
jokes land on
Lara, she turns
the other cheek.
Laney narrates
the story of Lara's
arrival and
survival.
The Silence of Murder
$18.25 hardcover
$10.75 paperback
A gripping murder mystery and a
dark yet
powerfully
redemptive
story of
love,
secrets, and
silence.
Backyard Horse series:
Horse Dreams
$6.50 paperback
Fourth-grader Ellie James has a great
imagination. She spends a lot of time
daydreaming of owning a black stallion
show horse and winning trophies in the
horse show.
But when the
answer to all
her dreams
and prayers
gallops into her
life, will Ellie be
able to
recognize it?
My Boyfriends’ Dogs
$8.50 paperback
Made into a 2014 Hallmark
Television Movie!
Why can’t guys
be more like
dogs? When
Bailey Daley
shows up at a
St. Louis diner
soaking wet,
wearing a
prom dress
with three
dogs in tow, the owner figures there’s a
story behind all this. And what a story it
is!
Winnie the Horse Gentler series:
Wild Thing
$6.50 paperback
Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a
way with horses. She can gentle the
wildest mare, but
other parts of her
life don't always
come as easily.
Jeff Kurrus
Have You Seen Mary?
$10.00 paperback
The Tale of Jacob Swift – NEW!
$15.00 hardcover
“The Tale of Jacob Swift” is the story of a swift fox
pup’s battle for survival on the short-grass prairie of
the Great Plains with his family. Filled with stunning
photographs by Rob Palmer and written by Jeff
Kurrus, this photo fiction book is sure to entertain
and educate readers of all ages.
“. . . and the sky blackened with dark, gray bodies. In
the blurry confusion, John lost Mary.”
So begins Have You Seen Mary?, a fictional account of
one sandhill crane’s faithful search during spring
migration for his lost mate. Set on Nebraska’s Platte
River, Jeff Kurrus weaves a tender story of love while
also teaching us about these majestic birds. Supported
with wondrous color photographs taken by Michael
Forsberg, this book will appeal to all ages for its ability
to entertain as well as educate readers about sandhill
cranes.
Steve Jenkins
The Animal Book
$23.50 hardcover
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest
$7.50 paperback
Down, Down, Down
$18.25 hardcover
Animals that are smooth, spiky, fast
or slow hop and waddle through the
two hundred plus pages of the
Caldecott
Honor
artist
Steve
Jenkins’s
most
impressive
nonfiction
offering
yet.
Beautiful double-page-spread cutpaper collages illustrate a picture
book about some of the biggest and
smallest, fastest and slowest,
strongest and longest record
holders
in the
animal
world.
You will
be
amazed!
Caldecott
Honorwinning Steve
Jenkins
provides a
top-tobottom look
at the ocean,
from birds and waves to thermal
vents and ooze. Half the earth's
surface is covered by water more
than a mile deep, but most of this
watery world is a mystery to us.
Eye to Eye
$19.25 hardcover
How to Clean a Hippopotamus
$7.50 paperback
Move!
$18.25 hardcover
Large, colorful pictures of more than
20 animal eyes are accompanied by
a small
illustration of
the entire
creature and a
brief
paragraph of
intriguing
information.
What does a water buffalo see in an
egret? Why would a badger want a
coyote for company? This book
explores the mutually beneficial
symbiotic
relationships
that can be
found
everywhere in
the animal
kingdom.
Animals
move!
Follow
them as
they swing,
dance,
float, leap, and slide from page to
page, then learn why these animals
move the way they do, from the
jumping spider who dances to
impress and then floats away on a
thread of silk, to the roadrunner
who flies, but not too far.
My First
Day
$19.25
hardcover
What
happens on
the very first
day of
different animals’ lives? This book
depicts 23 different animals (including a
leatherback turtle, a giraffe, an emperor
penguin, a polar bear, and a parent
bug), each of whom narrates, in one or
two sentences, what it could or could
not do on day one.
Vulture View
$18.25 hardcover
Turkey
vultures
soar on the
balmy air,
looking for
their next
stinky feast.
These birds don't hunt--they like
their food to be already dead, and
their eating habits serve a very
important ecological role. Vultures
are part of nature's clean-up crew.
What Do You Do With a Tail Like
This?
$8.50 paperback
Caldecott Medal Winner!
A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes
that squirt blood? Explore the many
amazing things animals can do with
their ears,
eyes, mouths,
noses, feet,
and tails in this
interactive
guessing book,
beautifully
illustrated in cut-paper collage.