New Releases by Mary Packard

A child watches his kite fly high in the sky.

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.

Young children will love learning to read with the "My First Reader" storybooks. Once a child can recognize and identify the words used to tell each story, he or she will be able to successfully read on their own. Familiar words are repeated throughout the story, so that after you and your young readers have read the story several times, he or she will be able to easily recognize the words and understand their meaning. A word list is included. Big, bright illustrations complement each delightful story -- the kind of stories young children can quickly relate to -- and enjoy.

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

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

A little groundhog and his family enjoy all four seasons.

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

Questions and answers explain such phenomena as freckles, bubbles, nightmares, and thunder.

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