New Releases by Steve Metzger

Featuring vibrant full-color photos and easy-to-read text, "I'm a Reader" board books promote: Increased vocabulary, beginning reading, parent-child conversations, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and thought-provoking questions. A lifetime of FUN learning starts here!

Featuring vibrant full-color photos and easy-to-read text, "I'm a Reader" board books promote: Increased vocabulary, beginning reading, parent-child conversations, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and thought-provoking questions. A lifetime of FUN learning starts here!

Featuring vibrant full-color photos and easy-to-read text, "I'm a Reader" board books promote: Increased vocabulary, beginning reading, parent-child conversations, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and thought-provoking questions. A lifetime of FUN learning starts here!

Featuring vibrant full-color photos and easy-to-read text, "I'm a Reader" board books promote: Increased vocabulary, beginning reading, parent-child conversations, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and thought-provoking questions. A lifetime of FUN learning starts here!

Featuring vibrant full-color photos and easy-to-read text, "I'm a Reader" board books promote: Increased vocabulary, beginning reading, parent-child conversations, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and thought-provoking questions. A lifetime of FUN learning starts here!

To nine-year-old twins Walter and Christopher, "Swampland" is the best video game ever! But when the boys start arguing over whose turn it is to play, Mama and Papa Bumble banish them to the great outdoors. In the scary outside world full of nature and girls, the twins must find a place for a secret clubhouse and come up with a set of rules for their new, ultra exclusive club. The laughs and adventures continue in this second part of the Bumble Brothers graphic novel saga.

The first year of a baby's life is the most essential for establishing a strong parent-child bond. This sturdy board book, which focuses on physical development, shows a diverse range of parents and caregivers positively interacting with their babies by waving bye-bye, clapping hands, rolling over, crawling, starting to walk, holding a favorite toy. Additional suggestions for parents are included.

The first year of a baby's life is the most essential for establishing a strong parent-child bond. This sturdy bi-lingual board book, which focuses on social development. shows a diverse range of parents and caregivers positively interacting with their babies by sitting face-to-face, interacting with parents and grandparents, giving comfort when the baby is crying, playing peek-a-boo. Additional suggestions for parents are included.

The first year of a baby's life is the most essential for establishing a strong parent-child bond. This sturdy bi-lingual board book, which focuses on physical development, shows a diverse range of parents and caregivers positively interacting with their babies by waving bye-bye, clapping hands, rolling over, crawling, starting to walk, holding a favorite toy. Additional suggestions for parents are included.

The first year of a baby's life is the most essential for establishing a strong parent-child bond. This sturdy board book, which focuses on emotional development, shows a diverse range of parents and caregivers positively interacting with their babies bymaking loving contact throughout the day, playing together, sharing books, snuggling. Additional suggestions for parents are included.

The first year of a baby's life is the most essential for establishing a strong parent-child bond. This sturdy board book, which focuses on emotional development, shows a diverse range of parents and caregivers positively interacting with their babies bymaking loving contact throughout the day, playing together, sharing books, snuggling. Additional suggestions for parents are included.

The first year of a baby's life is the most essential for establishing a strong parent-child bond. This sturdy bi-lingual board book, which focuses on cognitive development, shows a diverse range of parents and caregivers positively interacting with their babies by sharing books, playing in the bathtub, making music, playing with toys. Additional suggestions for parents are included.

A bug is thankful for a leaf, A sea star for its coral reef. A hawk is thankful for the sky, A piglet for a muddy sty. In this colorful board book, animals are the perfect examples of gratitude for the simple things, from the open sea to a safe barn stall. With adorable, brightly colored drawings and rhyming couplets, Thankful Animals, Thankful Me will teach your child about a multitude of animals, all while showing them how to be thankful. A life full of gratitude has never been so easy—or cute!

Meet Walter and Christopher: the Bumble Brothers. These nine-year-old twins MUST have the latest comic book featuring their favorite superhero, Frabbit (1/2 frog & 1/2 rabbit). But Harold the neighborhood bully stands in their way. Featuring wacky misunderstandings, riddles that nobody gets, goofy puns, and silly fantasy sequences, this graphic novel series will have early elementary school kids laughing non-stop!

Brilliant full-color photos enhance the simple, easy-to-read text in this educational series of five photographic board books -- available in English and bilingual (Spanish and English) versions.

Brilliant full-color photos enhance the simple, easy-to-read text in this educational series of five photographic board books -- available in English and bilingual (Spanish and English) versions.

Brilliant full-color photos enhance the simple, easy-to-read text in this educational series of five photographic board books -- available in English and bilingual (Spanish and English) versions.

Brilliant full-color photos enhance the simple, easy-to-read text in this educational series of five photographic board books -- available in English and bilingual (Spanish and English) versions.

Brilliant full-color photos enhance the simple, easy-to-read text in this educational series of five photographic board books -- available in English and bilingual (Spanish and English) versions.

Brilliant full-color photos enhance the simple, easy-to-read text in this educational series of five photographic board books -- available in English and bilingual (Spanish and English) versions.

Learn about the water cycle with this fun verse based on the popular rhyme "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed"--Back cover.

Our brave band of adventurers set out one night to find "the biggest pumpkin in town." First encountering the darkness of night, they bolster one another with the refrain, "I'm not scared. Are you? Not me!", even though the littlest mouse can't help but shiver in fright. Their group's courage stands up in the face of night bugs, and obstacles like trees, a mountain, and a river. But when the search ends with the discovery of a spooky jack o'lantern with pointy teeth and big, bright eyes, the children hightail it back through the trees, the river, the tall grass, and the dark of night, all the way to the safety of home. Have the night's antics gone too far? Oh, no, everyone's laughing out loud--it's fun to be scared with friends!

Follow the journeys of five seeds through rhyming text, that may be recited to the counting song 'Five green and speckled frogs'.

This spooky spoof on "This Is the House That Jack Built" is perfect Halloween fun! "This is the skeleton who nailed down the floor,That upset the werewolf who put in a door,That stopped the spider who started to crawl,That shocked the mummy who raised the wall,Inside the house that monsters built."This Is the House That Monsters Built uses the building verse characteristic of the original nursery rhyme "This Is the House That Jack Built." A vampire, a ghost, a zombie, a mummy, and more all contribute to the spooky fun in the house that monsters built.Young children will love the zany artwork featuring all the different monsters from bestselling illustrator Jared Lee!

It's Christmas Eve. 'We've got to get ready for Santa Claus!" Bear tells his friends. While the other animals are excited, Badger isn't convinced. "Santa's not coming!' he grumbles. "He doesn't even know we're here!" "We just have to believe," Bear tells them. Bear organizes his friends to help to get ready for Santa's visit. But will Santa really come?

From morning until bedtime, the day is filled with magical moments between parent and child.

The Turkey Train to Maine is a fun ride for turkeys and humans, with games and singing and a winter wonderland as your destination.

A fresh and heartwarming story about Abraham Lincoln and the young girl who inspired his signature beard. Abraham Lincoln is one of the most recognizable people, let alone presidents, in the history of the United States. Perhaps it's because his face can be seen everywhere from the $5 bill in your wallet and the penny in your pocket to national monuments across the country. Or maybe it's simply because of his signature beard. Could you ever picture Lincoln without it? I bet you would never guess that there is one little girl in particular to thank for Lincoln's beard.LINCOLN AND GRACE is the story of Grace Bedell--the eleven-year-old who got a President to listen to her advice. In addition to learning the fascinating true story behind Lincoln's beard, children will love it because it shows that one voice--even one as small as their own--can matter.

"Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell really liked presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, but she thought he was missing one thing: a beard! So she wrote him a letter to tell him just that. One beard and one election later, Abraham Lincoln became the president of the United States of America. This is the story of how one little letter and one little girl changed history"--Publisher.