New Releases by Michael Rex

Toddlers love things that go, and even better if animals are doing the driving! The secret is out--animals don''t just walk, waddle, and swim. Their names give you clues to how they really like to get around, and now you can see what vehicles they love to pilot, skipper, and drive! A clever concept board book that puts a new spin on transportation.

If your dad is willing to save you from pirates, gorilla pirates, robot gorilla pirates and even robot gorilla pirates from Mars, you know he''ll do anything for you. And if that makes your dad hungry and thirsty or if he gets cuts and bruises, you know just how to take care of him right back. An adventurous tale of the heroic lengths fathers and sons will go for each other that will elicit gasps, giggles and warm contented sighs.

Sport actions rhyme with the names of animals who love to play, such as Goal Mole, Dunk Skunk, and Hurdle Turtle.

A scarecrow chases his hat in the wind and finds other hats along the way that belong to various people.

Illustrations and one-word sentences portray a group of firefighters as they respond to a call and save a store from being destroyed.

An alien visits a house on Earth, where he meets a young boy and shares drawings with him.

A little boy, living out his fantasy of driving his own freight train, describes the different cars, what each carries, how they are connected, and more.

An elf helps Santa on Christmas Eve.

A girl wonders if her adventure with the Tooth Fairy was real or only a dream.

After several failed attempts, Bunny finally gets to paint something.

A bright and simple concept book takes readers through a noisy, smelly, sudsy, cluttered, and thoroughly enjoyable kitchen. "The dishwasher is loud. The counter is cluttered. The blender is noisy. The sandwich is cut. The bags are plastic. The milk is spilled. The popcorn is popping!" Through breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, the kitchen is filled with interesting sights, smells, sounds and tastes. On this delicious trip through the kitchen, detail-rich scenes will delight young children as they recognize familiar foods and objects and learn new words to describe them. There''s lots of fun to be had in the room where the syrup is sticky, the candy is hidden and the pie is cherry!

A group of young trick-or-treaters demonstrate that "feet are for stomping, " "eyes are for peeking, " "mouths are for moaning, " and "tummies are for treating."

A simple presentation of a race car and how it is used and serviced during a race.

Flaps lift to reveal what different people, animals, or machines dig.

Lots of busy workers are building lots of different things. Who are they? Lift up the flaps to find out.

As he plays with his toy fire engine, a boy imagines himself fighting a real fire.

"In this comically far-fetched book, a talented gorilla’s paintings of other zoo animals and their visitors earn her fame and fortune, which she’s not sure what do with.... In the end, this joyful painting gorilla reminds us that the best things in life are free." --Publishers Weekly

The technique of plastic design has many advantages over the traditional elastic design technique. With the publication of this book, American designers and engineers will be given easy access to the latest developments in the theory and practice of plastic design.

A geometrically similar family of three supercavitating hydrofoils was tested in a variable pressure water tunnel. The half-span foils were of elliptical planform; the ratio of foil half-span to tunnel height was 1/4 for the small foil, 1/2 for the medium foil, and 3/4 for the largest foil. The tunnel was of square cross section. Lift, drag, moment, tunnel speed, ambient pressure, and cavity pressure were measured for attack angles from 8 to 21 degrees and a variety of ambient pressure settings; cavity length measurements were obtained from photographs. For the small and medium foils, it was sufficient to correct only for the effect on downwash of the images of the trailing vortices. The large foil data, however, required further correction; upon application of the same corrections which were applied to the data for the two smaller foils, the force and moment data for the large foil plotted slightly lower than did the data for the two smaller foils, while the cavity length data for the large foil indicated cavity lengths significantly larger than for either of the theoretical predictions or the cavity length data for the two smaller foils.