New Releases by Bill Martin

In this version of the old rhyme, the fire turns out to be smoke from the candles of a birthday cake.

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!

Chicken Chuck the rooster, who has set himself up as boss of the barnyard by virtue of the special blue feather in the middle of his forehead, finds his authority undermined by a circus horse with two blue feathers.

A group of mice venture into a dark, dark woods where they find a dark brown house with a dark red stair leading past other dark colors to a spooky surprise.

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

A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs

Welcome to the peace of mind that comes with responsible planning and freedom from debt. Based on five biblically-based principles, The Christian’s Guide to Financial Freedom is an eight session course designed to set a straight track towards savings, simplicity and stewardship.

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

A pictorial representation of a question and answer game played by a teacher and her group.

Album (1971) to Going for the One (1977). Professor Martin situates Yes within the utopian ideals of the 1960s and the experimental trend initiated by The Beatles, then developed by such groups as King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Although sometimes critical of Yes''s work, Martin defends Yes against their supposed blissed-out over-optimism and their departures from blues orthodoxy. Drawing upon the thinking of Adorno and Marcuse,

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.

"Big cat, big cat, catch me if you can!" The mouse taunts the cat every day, and every day runs home just in time for Mom to slam the door after him. But one day the big cat takes a shortcut to the mouse''s house and is there waiting for him when he arrives. Can the mouse''s wits save him now?"--School Library Journal. Full color.

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.

Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper.

Includes poems, rhymes, short stories, and illustrations by variousauthors and artists.

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

Two stories in one: the first written as a rap poem about a young dragon''s learning how to be ferocious; the second text and pictures describe the various means of childhood locomotion (skates, skis, etc.).

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.

Describes the life cycle of poppies.

A collection of poems, stories, rhymes and songs illustrated by different artists.