New Releases by Bob Raczka

Two flakes play. / Four flakes sashay. / Eight flakes twirl. / Sixteen flakes swirl. Experience a snowstorm that brings together playful rhyming verse with the power of exponential growth! Bob Raczka''s clever rhymes come to life in the dynamic illustrations of Bryony Clarkson. The artwork includes the precise number of snowflakes mentioned in the text, starting with 2 and ending with an astonishing 16,384!

An empowering reflection on the many things we are and the ways we relate to the world. Poet Bob Raczka’s You are a Story highlights all of the nuance and potential of a growing person’s identity, delighting in the things that make us special and connect us to others. Text and illustrations replete with inventive imagery and appealing metaphors show how we all live as individuals and citizens of the world. You are a living thing. You breathe. You eat. You Sleep. You work and play. You have dreams and fears. You have thoughts and memories. You are. What makes you you? So much goes into who you are, and you are so many different things: A child, an animal, a body of water, a friend, a mystery, one-of-a-kind, a miracle. You are and could be so many things, but whatever you choose to do, it’s your life to write, you are a story. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Children''s Book of the Year

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Niko loves to draw his world: the ring-a-ling of the ice cream truck, the warmth of sun on his face. But no one appreciates his art. Until one day, Niko meets Iris . . . This imaginative and tender story explores the creative process, abstract art, friendship, and the universal desire to feel understood. A Junior Library Guild selection, Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, Children''s Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children''s Book of the Year, Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books, Cooperative Children''s Book Center Choice, Midwest Connections Pick, NCTE Notable Children''s Book in the Language Arts, and New York Public Library Best Book for Kids

A misunderstood wolf writes poems about his forest home and friends in this breathtaking picture book Black Bear-ies Cute black fruit snack. Tiny. Shiny. Pick some, lick thumbs. Cub grub. The Poet Wolf loves to write pithy verse in the pine forest, but his forest friends see not a poet, but a hungry wolf. That is, until they listen to his lovely poems about life in the woods and discover that behind this apex predator is a sensitive soul who prefers to eat not his furry fellow creatures, but crisp pears.

A cautionary tale using words made up of only the five letters in the title (B, E, W, A, and R). Can a bear and a bee become friends? Abe and Bree aren''t supposed to get along. When they meet, they panic. Abe swats! Bree stings! Now they''re both hurt. Together they figure out how to find friendship despite differences and preconceived notions. This rare-bear, wee-bee tale helps to create a web of understanding with unique language and a clever structure.

Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways. Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems are also easy to write! From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word comes another clever collection that shows kids how to look at words and poetry in a whole new way.

A spoonful of poetry helps the mockery go down! This collection of presidential poems is historical and hysterical. The clerihew is a simple poetic form specifically invented to make fun of famous people—and who is more famous than the misbehaving presidents of the United States? Here are forty-three poems teasing the commander-in-chief that are fun to read aloud and even more fun to write yourself. From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word comes a new collection filled with zingers, humdingers, and Presidential Misadventures.

Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle - this brand new poetic form turns word puzzles into poetry.

The delights of autumn are described in mixed-up verse and illustrations, and the reader is challenged to uncover the errors.

Explores works done by artists, including Picasso, Albrecht Durer, and Michelangelo Buonarroti, as children.

The wind and I play tug-of-war with my new kite. The wind is winning. When you’re a guy, nature is one big playground—no matter what the season. There are puddles to splash in the spring, pine trees to climb in the summer, maple seeds to catch in the fall, and icicles to swordfight with in the winter. Nature also has a way of making a guy appreciate important stuff—like how many rocks it takes to dam up a stream, or how much snow equals a day off from school. So what kind of poetry best captures these special moments, at a length that lets guys get right back to tree-climbing and kite-flying? Why, guyku, of course!

In this innovative look at seven paintings by Jan Vermeer, author Bob Raczka takes on the role of interviewer and the people in the paintings become his willing subjects. From The Milkmaid to The Geographer, Raczka teases out fascinating details about these gorgeous works of art and their mysterious creator. As you might imagine, after more than three hundred years of silence, the characters inside these paintings have much to share.

No matter how you feel about winter, you are sure to enjoy Bob Raczka''s tribute to the season''s activities, tastes, and sounds. The simple rhymes using "y" words will encourage children to come up with their own words to describe the season.

Uses reproductions of paintings and photographs, along with statements about America, to introduce young readers to American ideals and landscapes.

Nature is busy budding and flowering; baby animals are being born; gardeners are planting; and everywhere children are running and playing. In rhyming text, the author celebrates Spring.

Offers young readers an in-depth guide to viewing and appreciating art through the use of all of the five senses, enhanced with color reproductions, illustrations, and painter profiles.

Offering the message that no two people see the world in the same way, simple rhymed text and examples of various modern painters'' works point out the particular lens through which each of the artists viewed an object.