Best Selling Books by Mary Packard

Young children wil love larning to read with these storybooks. Once they can recognize and identify the words used to tell each story, the will be able to successfully read on their own. Features a word list.

While looking for some flowers for his friend''s birthday party, Mike the snowy egret gets caught in some plastic trash that had been thrown into Mulberry Marsh.

Tiger the kitten is frightened out of his fur when his nice, friendly neighborhood is overrun by scary, ghoulish creatures!

Winnie is unable to fly with the other witches on Halloween, but her grandmother assures her that when she really wants to fly, she will be able to.

How would you like to meet a dog with a college degree? Or better yet, an 84-year-old first grader? Want to know how one coach got his team to swim? He dropped a crocodile in the pool, of course!School reading has never been so fun with is wild collection of school-based stories. They will fill your mind with odd-ucational wonder!

The caveman Dron, makes a huge scary Protoceratops mask for his friend Spike, a Stegosaurus, so that he can fool the other dinosaurs and keep them from teasing him about his small face.

It''s shades of the old folktale "Stone Soup" when Donald persuades Goofy that he can make soup from a magic stone.

Rocks and minerals tells how rocks and minerals are formed, how to identify them, and how to begin collecting.

Spike and Mike and the other animals in Cypress Glade, except Dixie Otter, try to improve their looks when they learn that the movie star Preston Peacock is coming to visit.

A shy scarecrow is too scared of the hungry crows to do his job, but the farmer helps him gain the courage that he needs.

You will learn some of the ways people deal with grief and what they do with corpses. You''ll read about mummies, shrunken heads, and unusual coffins, tombstones, and epitaphs -- as well as ghosts, curses, superstitions, and more.

Chock full of grossly disgusting facts. Includes multiple choice quizzes.

Locked in a tower by the witch Scarlotta, Rapunzel lets down her beautiful long hair to become a "golden stair" for her prince charming. But when he climbs up, he finds quite a surprize.

Six stories in a two-minute format, suitable for bedtime reading.

When Mickey receives a wind-up toy kitten for his birthday, his real kitten, Molly, gets her feelings hurt by all the attention everyone pays to the toy.

During bath time, a little boy imagines all kinds of creatures are in the tub with him.

A stubborn young girl describes how she likes to keep her room very messy.

A big Ankylosaurus named Lozar creates an opening into the side of a mountain to protect his caveman friend, Thrax, from Tyrannosaurus.

Complete with full-color photos and original cartoons, this collection features the weirdest, grossest, strangest, and most unbelievable facts, acts, and oddities ever recorded. Original.

Did you know......that hippo sweat looks like blood?...that a tiger''s roar can be heard up to two miles away?...that golden eagles will attack airplanes that fly too close to their nests?Robert Ripley explored more than 190 countries seeking the bizarre. World''s Weirdest Critters is packed with wild and wacky animal facts from Ripley''s updated collection!Readers test their own critter smarts by taking the Who Am I? quizzes and Ripley''s Brain Busters along the way. They''ll be amazed by the things some animals will do.

An introduction to dinosaurs, in question-and-answer format, with illustrations, time line, and atlas.

Describes different parts of the body, including the circulatory, digestive, nervous, and reproductive systems, and explains how they work.

A boy enjoys imitating his big brother and dreams of the day when he will be big as well.

Filled with curiosities and wonders from around the world.

Spike the alligator and Mike the snowy egret help two quetzals whose forest home in Central America was destroyed.

When the Otter family has to move because the water in Cypress Glade is too dirty to live in, Spike the alligator, Mike the snowy egret, and the other animals decide to clean things up.