Most Popular Books by Rick Walton

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

The reader counts from one to twelve while guessing the answers to questions about nursery rhymes, names of the seasons, players on a football team, and other basic information

A bunny mother explores all of the wonderful things she can do with her baby, from holding and hugging to feeding and dressing.

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.

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!

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.

A collection of jokes about magic.

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."

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

A collection of riddles about weather, including "What do clouds wear under their raincoats? Thunderwear."

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

Girls who like to solve puzzles and crack cases will love this book. It features a recurring cast of characters and real-life situations, so girls will connect with all 20 bite-sized stories. Once the reader solves the mystery, she can tear open a special case folder in the back of the book to check her answer!

A collection of jokes about sports.

Frankenstein is back and taking over Christmas in this hilarious send-up of Clement C. Moore''s famous poem!

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

It''s time for school, and the day is packed with activities and fun! Whether these little bunnies are making sweet music, growing a plant, or sharing at show-and-tell, everyone enjoys the pleasures of learning. Rick Walton''s rhyming text and Paige Miglio''s detailed illustrations are a treat that will make any toddler eager for school to begin.

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

Bertie, a dog as small as a watch, outsmarts an overconfident robber.

A collection of riddles about baseball, including "Why did the baseball coach buy a big broom? Because he wanted to sweep the World Series".

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

Presents riddles about letters of the alphabet, such as "What letter will give you a lift? The L-evator."

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

Instructs the reader in how to form one''s own country when the time comes, from finding a location, a name, and a flag, to handling the inevitable civil unrest and invasions.

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.

A big red happy muddy smart bouncy slobbery sneaky stinky dog is praised by his proud owner.

A bullfrog in the Old West loses his hop in this lively tale where each page must be turned to complete the previous image.

A bunny family spends the day together.

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

Move over Tom and Jerry-there''s a new cantankerous pair ready to tickle funny bones! Mr. Cat and Mr. Rat have always enjoyed playfully torturing each other, so when Mr. Rat finds a package from Mr. C, he is understandably suspicious. But when it turns out to be a huge hunk of cheese (that isn''t poisonous), Mr. Rat is thrilled and reciprocates with a nice gift for Mr. Cat. This leads to a string of gifts going back and forth, but the "friends" are always at least a little cautious each time they get a package. It''s hard to tell when one might contain a not-so-nice surprise.

How Many? is part of the Maths Together series, an early numeracy programme for parents and children to share. The set contains six picture books designed to introduce children, simply and enjoyably, to basic mathematical ideas. In addition, each book has its own detailed support notes.

On his trip over the mountain, a bear has a series of misadventures.

An introduction to comparative language.

A collection of dinosaur-themed riddles and jokes.

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

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

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.

A collection of jokes and riddles for every aspect of summer, from the beach to camp to the baseball diamond.

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).