New Releases by Bill Martin

Lyrical text and color photographs celebrate nature''s colors, climates, and seasons.

Trick or Treat When Merlin the wizard answers the door, trick-or-treating becomes more tricky than usual. Suddenly everything turns Wackbards! Those tasty jelly beans have turned into silly belly jeans! Enjoy this hilarious Halloween treat that''s guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth and your funny bone!

Divides the Pledge of Allegiance into words and phrases in order to define its meaning.

(Music Sales America). This is the first instructional singing book to address exclusively rock singing in the singers'' own words. Learn what it takes to sing like a professional, maximize your vocal range, and increase power. Includes interviews and quotes with a range of singers including Bruce Dickinson, Geoff Tate, Joe Lynn Turner, John Bush and James Labrie.

A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs

Music writer Bill Martin explores how avant-garde rock emerged from the social and political upheaval of the sixties. He covers the music from its early stages, revealing its influences outside of rock, from musicians such as John Cage and Cecil Taylor, to those more closely related to rock like James Brown and Parliament/Funkadelic. Martin follows the development of avant rock through the sixties, when it was accepted into the mainstream, with bands like the later Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Velvet Underground, King Crimson and Brian Eno. His narration takes us into the present, with an analysis of contemporary artists who continue to innovate and push the boundaries of rock, such as Stereolab, Mouse on Mars, Sonic Youth, and Jim O''Rourke. Martin critiques the work of all important avant rock bands and individual artists, from the well-known to the more obscure, and provides an annotated discography.

Two girls'' teams, the Cardinals and the Blue Jays, play a close and intense game of basketball.

When Chicken Chuck eats a big blue seed and a blue feather sprouts magically in the middle of his forehead, all the other farm animals want one too. Full-color illustrations.

Children point out various parts of their bodies and mention their uses.

A grandfather and his blind grandson reminisce about the young boy''s birth, his first horse and an exiciting horse race.

Develops a radical politics of community that engages with practical issues such as the Gulf War and the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles, set against the context of postmodern capitalism.

Bold pictures present a band, and, music verbs and adverbs. PW Best Books of 1994.

A little mouse who habitually teases a cat must use his wits to avoid being eaten.

A comprehensive attempt to assess the politics of deconstruction and the deconstruction of modernist politics.

In this rhyming story, children describe the sights and sounds of riding on the merry-go-round.

A Halloween jack-o-lantern leads a band of mischief makers before getting snuffed out.

Walking down a dark lonely road on an errand one night, a brother and sister argue over who is afraid of the dread Ghost-Eye tree.

Unable to sleep on the night of a full moon, a young boy follows the sound of music across the fields and finds an unusual barn dance in progress.

Lucky Kidd watches her father ride a mean bull at the rodeo and thinks about becoming a bull rider herself.

A chronological account of the Apollo 11 trip to and from the moon.

The wizard demonstrates the tricks he can do on earth and in the air.

A boy, several animals, an astronaut, and a star name the kingdoms they rule over.

A little boy imagines all the things he will have in the fantastic supermarket he plans to build.

On a dark and stormy night one object after another joins in making eerie noises in the old house.

Old Mother Middle Muddle''s decision to make a cup of tea sends a wave of anticipation through the barnyard.

Lists in verse the most obvious quality of any kind of weather or human condition: "When it''s cold, it''s cold./ ... When you''re old, you''re old."

A rhyming tale describes the adventures of a group of children as they wander around the city.

Teacher''s guide for the books within the series.

Describes in verse the diversity of opinion and freedom of expression that makes the United States a land of liberty.