New Releases by Anne Rockwell

Relates a boy''s excitement in buying the perfect pumpkin and then making the perfect jack-o-lantern.

Summary: Explains how plants and animals of the meadow, woods, and pond grow and evolve, such as caterpillars changing into butterflies, eggs hatching into robins, and acorns becoming oaks.

Michiko''s mother writes books. Jessica''s mother is a veterinarian. Pablo''s father is a construction worker. What kinds of work do people you know do? On Career Day the children in Mrs. Madoff''s class take turns introducing special visitors. Every visitor has something interesting to share, and together the class learns all about the different work people do. In the fourth Mrs. Madoff book, Anne and Lizzy Rockwell revisit Mrs. Madoff''s class as they help young readers explore the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

According to Mayan legend, Chac is one of the gods of the sky who control rain, wind, thunder, and lighting. With his bottomless gourd of rain, his bag of winds, his booming drum, and his flashing ax, Chac is a mighty lord. But all his powers can''t give him the patience to handle a mischievous mortal boy he plucks from the forest to be his servant. This particular boy rarely does what he''s told on Earth, much less in the heavens...

A simple introduction to geography which explains such things as how the earth was shaped, how islands are born from volcanoes, and how gushing springs affect rivers.

A collection of short stories featuring a little boy and a little girl as alternating main characters.

Describes what happens to a bean as it is soaked, planted, watered, repotted, and eventually produces pods with more beans inside.

Includes various objects and activities for the reader to identify as the Bear family enjoy their camping vacation on an island.

A girl and her family experience the power and excitement of a big coastal storm

Told from a child''s point of view, this book is all about that most fabulous of machines: the fire engine.

Describes many different types of bikes, including the unicycle, tandem bike, racing bike, exercise bike, and trail bike.

Following his new friends to school lands Hugo the dog in jail.

The Bear family explore the rooms in their house.

Hugo the dog waits and waits at the window for his friend who is gone a long time, but there is a surprise for Hugo when his friend returns.

John can do nothing well until a snail gives him one hundred fabulous stories to tell, but when even they wear thin, he goes in search of the snail again.

A little girl enjoys playing in the rain. On board pages.

For use in schools and libraries only. This book uses watercolors to depict all kinds of boats, which are navigated by bears.

Briefly describes simple machines, machine parts, and the powers that move them.

The text of this volume comprises the Chichele Lectures of 1986 on the architectural history of All Souls College. Beginning with a discussion of the college''s foundation by Archbishop Chichele in 1438 and the construction of the original medieval buildings, Howard Colvin lays considerable stress on the model afforded by the earlier foundation of New College. He goes on to consider the college''s neo-gothic expansion in the early eighteenth century, and the great building work of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Finally, John Simmons discusses the changes that occurred in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and looks in particular at the alterations to the chapel made by Gilbert Scott in the 1870s. This first architectural history of one of Oxford''s most famous colleges is lavishly illustrated throughout, and contains several appendices.

A little red house in search of a family is given some magical help by a goblin.