New Releases by Rick Walton

THE DOTS WILL NOT BE JOINED is both a rich, sentimental memoir and a racy ''Compendium of Ideas''. It''s about sport (mainly football and cricket) but it carries wise, sometimes cheeky diversions - snapshots into what makes us and what liberates us. The *stories* and the challenges range. Rick Walton is a coach and a writer with a fearless, impossibly positive streak coursing through him. He recounts scary or electrifying visits to football and those wonderfully daft adventures so many of us have had in village teams. Combs forgotten in boots; lacerating North Sea gales; chunks of orange and blissfully sweet tea; ''team talks''. But we also have Proper Coaching - notions around how to approach and nourish and support players. There is the contention, too, that sport really can be ''good''; that how we play can matter. All this in a matrix of arty or philosophical hunches which unashamedly (but also humbly) celebrate the raw, The Human, the ridiculous, the unknowable, the ''unweighted''. Walton''s book is a one-off, daring to chase a zillion narratives so as to capture something actually rather profound about how activity works, in a world where the ''Social'' and Corporate kaleidoscopes are blurring, bending and maybe even crushing our will.

10 Little Monsters, looking for fun, Take a trip to Oregon!10 Little Monsters, they can''t wait, Cause Monsters LOVE the Beaver Stat

Little Tracker® is a guide thru out the story....helping Zebra to follow his tracks back to where and how he lost his stripes.

European Regions is a comparative and historical reference handbook with accompanying CD-ROM, giving comprehensive coverage of territorial regions throughout the whole of Europe in the period 1870-2000. The work provides a systematic presentation of state formation and boundary-building, their territorial structure and political-administrative status of regions for each of the 23 countries covered. In addition, the CD-ROM contains a complete set of digital regional maps in GIS format for the single countries and Europe as a whole for various points in time (usually 10 year intervals).

When Mr. President becomes overwhelmed by the many pressures of his job, he puts on a silly disguise and returns to the place where things are just a little bit simpler: kindergarten; while there, Mr. President relearns important lessons about sharin

Halloween and Christmas collide in Ludworst Bemonster''s unique send-up of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Little monsters everywhere will be screaming with laughter in Frankenstein''s Fright Before Christmas! ''Twas the night before Christmas and poor Miss Devel Was hassled and harried and not feeling well... Off in the distance she heard such a clatter She sprang from her slab to see what was the matter. Off down the stairs she flew like a flash, Threw open the doors just in time for the... CRASH!" The little monsters, led once again by Frankenstein, have been busy getting ready for the arrival of Saint Nick, but in this creepy old castle nothing goes quite as expected...

Grab it. Chew it. Throw it, too. That''s what babies like to do. And pretty pictures! Look, Baby, Look! At our smart Baby''s very first . . . . . . BOOK! A baby''s first year is full of milestones, from first smiles to first steps, and this book celebrates them all! A clever and bouncy text, vibrant ink-and-collage illustrations and an impossibly cute baby make this the perfect gift book for baby showers, and it even includes a poster on the reverse of the jacket that new parents can use to record their own little ones'' spectacular achievements.

Frankenstein is the scariest of all the monsters in Miss Devel''s castle until one night when he loses his head.

Little Tracker''s follow Lion''s tracks. What will they find?

Little Tracker goes in search of Giraffe, for her help.

Perfect for beginning readers, this laugh-out-loud joke book about entertaining education will put a smile on your face!

An introduction to comparative language.

A boy is surprised by people''s reactions when he and six thousand rats visit a big city, in a tale that features conjunctions from "and" to "yet."

Around the House, the Fox Chased the Mouse is the newest installment in Rick Walton''s award-winning language arts series, which has sold over 150,000 copies! This frolicking adventure teaches children about prepositions as it takes them on an adventure with a focused fox and a mischievous mouse!

Learn about the fun ways to be creative with a picnic. With recipes and different activities for added fun.

The people and objects of a town panic and flee when they see a Tyrannosaurus rex approaching, but they discover that only the bananas have anything to fear from this fruit-eating dinosaur. Full color.

Girls can go crazy for puzzles with this collection of tricky teasers, clever crosswords, silly riddles, and so much more! Puzzle Crazy will tickle girls? funny bones, while sharpening their logic and problem-solving skills.

Perfect for beginning readers, this laugh-out-loud joke book about foolish farm animals will put a smile on your face!

When a rabbit family goes on vacation, the reader is invited to guess what means of travel they will use next.

Bunnies frolicking at the playground introduce the numbers one through ten and the principles of simple addition.

Old Mother Rabbit lived in a shoe. She had twenty-six children and knew what to do. From Abel, who sleeps on a table, to Zed who sleeps on the shed, help Mother Rabbit tuck a whole alphabet of adorable little bunnies in for the night.

Contains 6 picture books selected by math experts including helpful advice for parents.

Rhyming text with puns on the sounds that different animals make offers advice on how to deal with each animal.

Contains 6 picture books selected by math experts including helpful advice for parents.

Old Mother Rabbit''s twenty-six children, each named for a letter of the alphabet, are lovingly put to bed.

Pioneers and animals join in the dancing and the fun during a journey across the plains.

As Noah calls, the animals on the ark perform a variety of square dance steps.

A collection of poems about bugs

A collection of riddles about ghosts, goblins, vampires, witches, and other creatures that cause shivers in the night.