Best Selling Books by Joe Rhatigan

Timothy Michael McCall is shocked when he is sent to detention. Imagine his surprise when he finds the Big Bad Wolf, Goldilocks, Captain Hook, and the Evil Stepsisters are serving detention with him! Students will be captivated by this story told in verse that features vibrant illustrations and a short chapter format that build reading comprehension and fluency. This fiction reader uses a compelling poetry format to capture the attention of 4th grade students who enjoy imaginative stories featuring classic, familiar characters.

Melt-and-pour soapmaking is the perfect easy and safe craft for kids, and this is the ideal guide to teach them how to do it. All the basics are covered to ensure "sud-sational" success, and 56 fun projects and nearly 300 colorful photos add to the appeal. The fun begins with choosing a soap base and selecting molds, from 3-D seashells and eggs to sandbox toys. Add fragrance, color, or other pizzazzy extras, such as pearlescent powder, shimmery cosmetic grade glitter, crushed dried flower petals, or herbs. Children will have a blast getting wacky with gross-out eyeball soaps, making soap popsicles complete with a wooden stick, getting happy with smiley faces, fashioning a soapasaurus, or cooking up "alphabet soap." Great gift ideas include a Best Friend Soap Bracelet or clear bar with a photo embedded for Grandma. Plus, there are cool soap facts throughout.

All the nursery rhymes in the magical town of Fable have one job, and that''s to rhyme. But when the town loses its license to rhyme, the residents must figure out what to do next. When Little Miss Muffet teams up with Spider to fix the problem, their solution will either save the day--or cause even more chaos! Students will enjoy this illustrated fiction reader that puts a fun, modern spin on traditional tales. With compelling text, grade-appropriate vocabulary, and chapter format to build reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency, this hi-lo reader is perfect for students who need high-interest, low-readability books.

Puzzle lovers ages 7-12 will be enamoured with these 75 fun, quirky, brain-teasing word search puzzles!

Provides instructions for using recycled materials to create fifty different crafts and offers tips for an earth-friendly lifestyle.

In Get a Job at the Airport, fictional character Jeremiah Oliver Baumgartner (Job, for short) introduces readers to a wide variety opportunities found (through his adventure and misadventures) at the airport. Back matter includes creative writing prompts and activities.

Everyone knows that sloths are super slow. So, when Pedro sees a super-speedy sloth in the forest, no one believes him. With a video camera and his friend Alessa, they set out to catch him in action. Advancing readers will enjoy this humorous story about

Safe, easy, fast, and fun: paper crafts are the perfect creative activity for children. And these 48 unique projects—engagingly displayed on colorful pages—prove there’s more to paper art than cutting out hearts. A special section starts kids off by introducing them to different papers and tools, while six technique-based chapters present imaginative possibilities for transforming everything from corrugated cardboard to vellum. Best of all, they’ll learn how to turn their own crafty ideas into reality.

Provides experiments intented to reinforce the learning of geography.

Every industry relies on the basic principles of business to function and prosper. An accountant can therefore choose to work in any business that needs sound financial practices. A sports enthusiast might seek an accounting job with a professional sports team, a sports equipment manufacturer, or other related business. Mixing business with pleasure is just one of the reasons to give this field a serious look. Demand is another. Each industry needs well-trained people who can organize, plan, and manage their way to success. Accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, nonprofit management, leadership, and real estate are just a few of the areas of specialization explored in further detail in the new Career Ideas for Teens in Business, Management, and Administration. Job articles include: Brand manager Chief executive officer E-commerce analyst Human resources director International business consultant Media coordinator Purchasing agent Risk manager.

The 45 projects here use paint, fabric, wire, beads, paper, costume jewelry, and other found objects, and range from classic and elegant to wild and witty. Try an assemblage of driftwood and seashells, a glued ceramic shard mosaic, and (for the kids) an imaginative border on a painted blackboard frame surface.

Welcome, welcome to Dizzytown! Where we smile at work and never frown. We believe we’re good at what we do. Come take a look and you’ll think so too! But readers may frown . . . and giggle . . . when they find out that in Dizzytown, the wrong people are doing all the jobs!!! This rhyming picture book with illustrations from the award-winning Patrick Corrigan, follows a young girl on her first trip to Dizzytown. Her friend shows her around, pointing out all the hard workers. Unfortunately for the residents of Dizzytown, it’s the teachers who put out fires, while sanitation workers take sick people to landfills, musicians fly airplanes, and more! Each time, the young girl exclaims, “Wait! What??” and explains who are the right people for the jobs. Children will love pointing out the discrepancies in Dizzytown, where children go to work, trucks are driven by punk rock bands, and houses are built by pumpkin-pie bakers, and delight in the young girl’s frustration that everything in Dizzytown is just very wrong!

The classic nursery rhyme . . . now the beginning of a hilarious rhyming adventure for toddlers! Everyone loves and remembers nursery rhymes from their childhood. Each book in this series begins with a classic nursery rhyme, and then expands on it with lots of silly fun. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is one of the most recognizable and beloved nursery rhymes of all time. And while there are countless versions available in book form, this magical edition turns the rhyme into an unforgettable story young children will come back to again and again. When four kittens wish to be closer to Twinkle, they devise different contraptions to launch them up, up, up in the sky! When their ideas don’t work, the kittens and Twinkle learn a valuable lesson about what it means to be a friend. At once hilarious and endearing, this book will give children the giggles as they read and re-read this new classic.

The nursery rhyme characters in the magical town of Fable have one job, and that''s to rhyme. But when the town loses its license to rhyme, Little Miss Muffet must team up with Spider to fix the problem. Will their solution save the day--or cause even more chaos? This 32-page chapter book will appeal to kids who enjoy imaginative stories featuring classic, familiar characters. Reluctant and avid readers who enjoy humorous stories will not be able to put this hi-lo book down.

Joe Rhatigan, author of the bestselling In Print, has come up with a new and unique guide to writing that''s not only instructive, but irresistible fun. Here''s the "write" way to get kids aged 10 and above excited about putting their words on the page.

On paper, plastic, or cloth; decorated with rubber stamps, stencils, and markers: get your work into print! Every lively page, bursting with boxed tips, full-color photos, and drawings, turns the publishing process into a fun adventure. These unique projects display dozens of creative ways to showcase words, from books to beyond. Want to write about someone you love? Put your thoughts on a memory frame around a photograph. Have a jewel of a poem? Copy it onto a sheet of shrinkable plastic, cut the words into cool shapes, stick them in the oven, and voila! They''ve become charms to hang on a bracelet. Light up language with a literary luminary, record a story on tape, fold an accordion book, and lots more. Plus: amazing writing secrets revealed; advice on making design decisions; inside info on famous authors; comments from real kids about how they get ideas; and more.

"Discusses items found in architectural salvage yards.... Projects range from simple (transforming a metal porch support into a corner shelf) to more complex (building a blanket chest from salvaged doors), and safety tips on working with metal, glass, and wood are provided....Recommended for public libraries."--Library Journal. "Try any one of these 45 projects and create something new with all the elegance of the original historic remnant."--Better Homes & Gardens Decorating. "Lively...prove[s] that one man''s trash is another man''s treasure."--Washington Post.

This kit contains everything you need to start your own garden of ginormous pumpkins! This kit includes everything you need to begin your perfect pumpkin patch. * Approximately 10 seeds * Seed starter * And a full-color manual that includes instructions for growing your plant/pet successfully. These materials and instructions will give you larger than life results, helping you feed and tend a GIANT pumpkin. Impress all of your neighbors and friends this Halloween with the biggest jack-o-lantern ever, or simply watch the miracle of the garden take this pumpkin beyond the outer limits!

Find out what happens next to the poor, wet spider and all of his insect friends in this classic nursery rhyme retold for today''s kids. "The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout" And so begins the new and expanded version of the 100-year-old classic nursery rhyme. The Itsy Bitsy Spider: Classic Nursery Rhymes Retold is a silly, fun, must-read-aloud book in which young children will find out what happens next to the poor, wet spider who tried and tried again to climb up the water spout. This time he has all of his insect friends with him! Follow along as caterpillars play leap frog in the trees, ladybugs play hide-and-seek, a beetle builds a swimming pool for his ant friends, and busy bees jump rope with a worm. There are giggles a-plenty as each turn of the page offers new surprises and super-silly situations. Share this re-imagining of the classic nursery rhyme with your children and make memories to last a lifetime.

Little Genius . . . where curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. A first architecture book for little geniuses! Architects are artists and scientists as well. They design the spaces where we shop, learn, visit, and dwell. From drawing houses with crayons to building with Legos and blocks, children are born architects! And Little Genius: Architecture is a child’s first look at the incredible work that architects do. Each spread features one or more amazing buildings or architectural feats, such as the Taj Mahal, the Chrysler Building, the Great Wall of China, the Parthenon, the Sydney Opera House, the Great Mosque of Djenné, and more!!! Also, a few terms such as Gothic and Art Deco are introduced without weighing down the lilting, rhyming text. With dynamic artwork by illustrator and architect Jomike Tejido, children will enjoy reading and re-reading this educational and fun book!

With Little Genius books, curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. With super-simple concepts about the sun, planets, comets, and more, each spread features the wonderful illustrations of Mattia Cerato along with rhyming text that delights while it instructs. With the sun as your guide, meet Mercury, Venus, Earth, and the rest of the planet gang, as you travel further and further to the outer reaches of the solar system. Each planet has one funny identifying feature that will help kids remember a fascinating fact about it. For instance, Earth is wearing goggles. Why? Because it has lots and lots of water! Little Genius: Solar System reads like a fun story, making it the perfect introduction to our night sky.

A wacky activity book to keep kids ages 10 to 100 amused for hours. Contents include entertaining and educational puzzles, riddles, brain teasers, geometric doodles, and memory games. Get out your pencil and eraser and be ready for a wacky workout for your brain. This enjoyably weird workbook is super-packed with number challenges, riddles to solve, limericks to finish, doodles to draw, word problems, stump ‘em situations, backward crossword puzzles, Sudoku and other number puzzles, crazy word searches, brain teasers, geometric doodles, and memory games. Positively guaranteed to de-clog an underused noggin.

Little Genius . . . where curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. With super-simple explanations about rain, wind, humidity, storms, the seasons, and more, Little Genius: Weather presents just the right amount of information for little learners. Children will love following along as a cute, smiling cloud guides them through simple weather events and explains what causes them using simple, rhyming text. Each spread also features a fun fact for kids who are ready to learn even more! It’s the perfect gift for budding climatologists and meteorologists!

Creatively embellishing unfinished, ready-made frames is fun and easy. Sometimes it is hard to find just the right frame for a special photograph or piece of artwork, but using today''s hottest techniques, you can personalise a wide variety of plain and old-fashioned frames with paint, fabric, wire, beads, paper, costume jewellery and other household leftovers.

Veterinarians need to have the expert knowledge, skills, and tools to keep the world''s animals healthy. The Career Expert Files series covers professionals who are experts in their fields. These career experts know things we never thought they''d need to know, but we''re glad they do.

Farmers need to have the expert knowledge, skills, and tools to keep the world fed. The Career Expert Files series covers professionals who are experts in their fields. These career experts know things we never thought they''d need to know, but we''re glad they do.

Describes a variety of scientific projects to make and show at a science fair.

Build advanced reading skills with 180 Days of Reading, a workbook of engaging and meaningful daily practice activities. This easy-to-use seventh grade workbook is great for at-home learning or classroom instruction. Push students to read and write more confidently with these standards-based learning activities. This activity book incorporates thematic units and a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts. The learning activities reinforce the connection between reading and writing by having students write about what they read. Parents appreciate the grade-appropriate reading passages and fascinating topics that children will love. The daily reading practice is perfect for homeschool, to reinforce learning at school, or to prevent learning loss over summer. Teachers rely on these workbooks to save them valuable time and address learning gaps.