New Releases by Steven Kellogg

Pinkerton doesn''t understand his owner’s commands. When told to come, he jumps out the window. When asked to fetch, he destroys the slippers instead. Pinkerton’s desperate owners take him to obedience school, but he flunks out in record time. Then one night a burglar breaks into their house, and Pinkerton is able to put his bad habits to good use. This silly charmer of a story was included on the Booklist and Horn Book best of the year lists and inspired four sequels about the impossibly clueless but irresistibly sweet Pinkerton. Now, in honor of its 35th anniversary, Steven Kellogg has updated the art and text (most notably removing the gun that appeared in the original edition), and has written an introductory note about the book’s history.

"Eric Carle, Nick Bruel, Lucy Cousins, Susan Jeffers, Steven Kellogg, Jon Klassen, Tom Lichtenheld, Peter McCarty, Chris Raschka, Peter Sis, Lane Smith, Erin Stead, Rosemary Wells and Mo Willems. Everybody has a favorite animal. Some like little white dogs or big black cats or hoppy brown bunnies best. Others prefer squishy snails or tall giraffes or sleek black panthers. With beautiful illustrations and charming personal stories, 14 children''s book artists share their favorite animals and why they love them"--

Kathy feels lonely and betrayed when her best friend goes away for the summer and has a wonderful time.

A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are other types of animals.

A young man believes his sweetheart and her family are the three silliest people in the world until he meets three others who are even sillier.

For more than thirty years, Steven Kellogg has been delighting young readers with his bright, lively books full of feisty imagination and silliness --and always perfectly expressing children''s thoughts and dreams. As his friend Helen Hunt says in her introduction to this treasury, Steven''s books "give voice and bring humor to the mischievous in all of us." Because of that, Steven Kellogg has become one of our most loved picture book creators. For the first time, here is a treasury of Steven''s books, including many of his bestsellers (The Mysterious Tadpole, The Island of the Skog, Jimmy''s Boa, Best Friends and others) and several little-known books that have been unavailable for many years. In all, eleven books are included--eleven gems to pore over again and again. And as an added bonus, there is also a biographical profile of Steven, complete with many photos and even some never-before-seen sketches. This is a compendium for every child--those who already love Steven Kellogg''s books, and those who are soon to love them.

Annie and her dog, Oscar, have had a busy day playing in the snow. Somehow Annie''s red mitten has disappeared in all the fun. They look high and low. . . . It''s not on the sledding hill, and it''s not by the snow castles. Maybe an eagle carried it off to keep its baby''s head warm. Or maybe a mouse is using it as a sleeping bag. When the sun goes down, Annie and Oscar have to give up their search and go inside. But when Annie looks out the window, something red catches her eye. . . . With entirely new full-color illustrations, this beautiful version of the beloved picture book The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten retains all the charm of the original.

Pinkerton seems lonely. So his young owner goes to the pet show to find him a friend. She returns with a kitten named Rose, who could be the ideal playmate for Pinkerton. But Rose has ideas of her own. She wants to be a Great Dane, and suddenly Pinkerton decides to start acting like a kitten. So Pinkerton, Rose and their owners go back to the pet show to seek professional advice, but what results is a crazy and comical adventure! "A zesty tale that is delivered with splendid flourish . . . Funny and well-paced [with] dexterous illustrations." (Booklist, starred review)

Pinkerton goes fox hunting with the Hunting Academy, but gets distracted easily when a bird and hot air balloons drift by overhead. Full-color illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

In this modern version of the children''s song, preparations for bedtime include "A-reading we will go, Now to the bath we go! Now off to bed we go!" Printed music on lining papers.

After dreaming that he is the father of a penguin egg, Pinkerton mistakes a football for a real egg, resulting in chaos all over town.

A little boy tries to think of all sorts of methods that would help him grow bigger than his bossy older brother.

A variation on the familiar song, "This Old Man", in which an increasing number of dogs look for treats.

As a student at Madame Pestilence''s Academy, Gloria must prove that she has what it takes to become a Christmas Witch by bringing peace to a planet occupied by two feuding factions. Reprint.

Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind was the toughest living creature in all the old frontier. On the day she was born she could out-talk, out-grin, out-scream, out-swim, and out-run any baby in Kentucky, and soon she was more than a match for bears, rattlers, alligators -- even the mighty Mike Fink. But when Sally Ann rescued Davy Crockett, even her hornet''s-nest bonnet and skunk perfume didn''t stop him from proposing marriage.

Who told the best tall tales of all time? This exuberant book, based on a nineteenth-century American folk song, provides more than a clue. After all, there aren''t many yarn spinners who could lay claim to building the Pharaoh''s pyramids, marrying Queen Elizabeth in Milwaukee, driving cattle from Texas to Seattle with the great Pecos Bill, or playing hopscotch on the moon. In fact, this tale is so irresistibly tall that when you''re through, you just may want to top it with a few whoppers of your own. Steven Kellogg has combined the traditional stanzas with his own rib-tickling verse and sparkling illustrations. Complete with the easily played melody, this is a tale that will delight readers for about a million years ... or maybe two!

A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make his and his mother''s fortune

Here is the larger-than-life story of a true American hero--John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. Along his way west, he planted apple orchards--and became one of this country''s most beloved legends. Full color.

Este cuento nos enseña a no fiarnos de las apariencias. Un zorro se hace pasar por policia para cazar una aves, aprovechando una gran confusión...

A humorous adaptation of the classic tale of chain-reaction panic.

Gloria must prove that she has what it takes to become a Christmas Witch by bringing peace to a planet occupied by two feuding factions. Full color.

An illustrated version of the well-known song of the American Revolution.

Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of tricking them into his truck.

When her can of blue paint mysteriously disappears, Belinda is determined to find out which one of the children took it.

Un petit lama demande ̉ceux qu''il rencontre (chauve-souris, cygne, veau, phoque, etc.) si leur maman est un lama? Un texte court, ťoff ̌des illustrations de Kellogg. [SDM].

Kathy feels lonely and betrayed when her best friend goes away for the summer and has a wonderful time.