Best Selling Books by Mary Packard

Rags, a scarecrow, tries hard to be scary to fool the smart crows, but is not successful until he creates a blue monster mask.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island''s transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state. She challenges Cuba''s well-established myth of racial equality and shows that racism is deeply rooted in Cuban creole society. Helg argues that despite Cuba''s abolition of slavery in 1886 and its winning of independence in 1902, Afro-Cubans remained marginalized in all aspects of society. After the wars for independence, in which they fought en masse, Afro-Cubans demanded change politically by forming the first national black party in the Western Hemisphere. This challenge met with strong opposition from the white Cuban elite, culminating in the massacre of thousands of Afro-Cubans in 1912. The event effectively ended Afro-Cubans'' political organization along racial lines, and Helg stresses that although some cultural elements of African origin were integrated into official Cuban culture, true racial equality has remained elusive.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

An illustrated collection of unusual phenomena and oddities about topics such as the human body, the law, nature, and pets.

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.