New Releases by Mary Ann Hoberman

From New York Times best-selling author and Children''s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman comes a new collection of fresh read-aloud takes on eight favorite fairy tales, including "The Three Bears," "Cinderella," and "Little Red Riding Hood." Designed with emerging readers in mind, each of the tales is told in short rhyming dialogues--with each character''s lines indicated by a different color-to be used as a script for two voices to read separately and together. Using traditional reading teaching techniques like alliteration, rhyme, repetition, and short sentences), the text invites young children to read along, while Michael Emberley''s lively illustrations enhance the stories'' humor and high spirits. Goldilocks, the Little Red Hen, the Three Little Pigs, and many more beloved characters star in these tales-with-a-twist that are perfect for early and reluctant readers, readers'' theater, and bedtime fun. A 2005 Notable Children''s Book in the Language Arts by the Children''s Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teacher of English. Also chosen as a 2004 Gryphon Award Honor Book by the Center for Children''s Books.

Everyone works hard to help the garden grow . . . but whose garden is it?

Expands on the familiar song to include a girl, a poodle, a toad, and a rooster who, along with Yankee Doodle, open a restaurant called Yankee Doodle''s Noodles.

A brother and sister learn that friendship is better than fighting and they soon spread their message all over the world.

A cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly.

When his parents leave a young boy in charge of the farm for a day, chaos erupts as the animals take over the house.

Presents the familiar rhyme about a pesky goat that gets in trouble for eating shirts off the clothesline.

While looking outside the window, a child sees something new each day and throughout the seasons.

First Sammy tells Silly Lily how to attract a cat, and then she tells him how to use the cat to get rid of mice.

An expanded version of the familiar children''s song describing what the little spider does after being washed out of the water-spout.

First Sammy tells Silly Lily how to attract a cat, and then she tells him how to use the cat to get rid of mice.

Children''s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman''s bestselling Sing-Along Stories are perfect for reading together, with over one million copies sold in all formats. You know the song, but you''ve never heard it like this! A familiar melody with uproariously funny new lyrics are presented alongside bright, zany illustrations in this picture book that includes music, stories, and games. These outrageous rhymes will appeal to reluctant readers, eager readers, silly readers, and the whole family together!

Oliver Tolliver, who lives alone in his little house with just one of everything, discovers that it is more fun to have two of everything and share with a friend.

Peter wants only milk, Lucy won''t settle for anything but homemade lemonade, and Jack is stuck on applesauce. Each new addition to the household brings a new demand for a special meal. What''s a mother to do? " A] highly comic rhyming romp that surprisingly (and nicely) twists into a birthday story." --School Library Journal

Verses describe a variety of foods, activities, smells, sounds, words, places, people, feelings, and other things perceived as being cozy.

Humorous and serious poems celebrate every kind of family member, including aunts and uncles, step-brothers and sisters, cousins, and even cats!

Fourteen animal poems include such titles as "Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Kangaroo" and "One Half of the Giraffe."

Mr. and Mrs. Muddle, a horse couple, have to learn to compromise on the one thing they don''t agree on.

Includes 58 poems on a variety of subjects.

Oliver Tolliver, who lives alone in his little house with just one of everything, discovers that it is more fun to have two of everything and share with a friend.

Humorous poems introduce each letter of the alphabet.

Brief poems speculating on the habits and behavior of familiar and exotic animals.

Relates in verse Ned''s search for his lost cat through the pages of this book--from one to twenty-eight.