New Releases by Susan Meddaugh

A new Martha Speaks TV tie-in chapter book in which Martha show off her detective skills, fighting crime with humorous but ultimately successful results.

As a puppy, Martha is snatched from the dog shelter and forced to commit crimes, including stealing an autographed baseball, catnapping, and breaking into the Museum of Natural History.

Martha visits a farm and helps with various farm chores.

An afternoon boating excursion goes terribly awry when Harry drops his oars and the tide takes him and his little yellow boat out to sea. A storm washes him ashore on an island with nothing but sand and rocks and one windblown tree. Hungry, Harry hopes to eat an egg he finds amid the rocks, but after warming in the sun, the egg doesn’t cook--it hatches! So instead of dinner, Harry finds a friend. But just what is the little, quickly growing, colorful, winged, and lizardlike creature? Harry’s in for more than one surprise as he discovers the true nature of the bizzard’s identity and the friendship they share.

Justine is so small, everyone calls her "Just Teenie," but one day she receives a plant that grows so tall, it gives her a different perspective.

Poor Margaret is waking up to another bad day. Ever since her parents died, her brother and sister have made her sweep the floors, chop the wood, cook the meals, feed the pigs, and anything else they can think to demand. Selfish, mean, and twice as big as Margaret, they always get their way. When at last Margaret has had enough, she runs away into the forest. Just as she is wondering how she will survive, she comes upon an old lady with a very sad story: a dog has run off with her walking stick, and she can’t do a thing without it. When the old lady promises Margaret a reward of three gold coins for its safe return, the girl readily agrees. Little does Margaret know that the old lady is really a witch, her reward a trick, and her walking stick a magic stick the witch has used to make a thousand miserable wishes come true . . .

After traveling around the world to make sure that the view from his screen porch is the best, an old wolf tries drastic measures to get his house back from the rabbit family that bought it. Full color.

Martha discovers how the Perfect Pup Institute turns dogs into obedient robots and then does something about it.

Le jour où la chienne Martha a avalé un plein bol de soupe aux pâtes alphabet, les lettres, au lieu de descendre dans son estomac, lui sont montées directement à la tête... Et depuis, Martha parle, parle, parle sans arrêt !

Au fond d''une malle, Lulu trouve un vieux chapeau claque. Un chapeau pas ordinaire... On peut même dire un chapeau magique ! Il en sort des lapins, des chiens, des chats, des oiseaux... Mais d''où viennent-ils, tous ces animaux ? Et quand ils retournent dans le chapeau, où disparaissent-ils ? Lulu, l''apprentie magicienne, décide de les suivre...

One of the rats that was turned into a coachman by Cinderella''s fairy godmother tells his story.

In True Magic Families, a single member of each generation was born with the magician''s touch.Real magic.It was a genetic quirk that no one could explain.Either you had it or you didn''t.But Lulu could never be the one in her generation gifted with magic, because Lulu was adopted.Nonetheless, Uncle Jerry the Great lets her have her chance to join him for the summer as his assistant, just like all of the other cousins.All she needed to do was warm up the crowd with a few simple tricks, but Lulu was all thumbs-until she discovers a dusty, old hat in the botom of her uncle''s costume trunk.All sorts of strange things start to happen, and soon Lulu''s unpredictable nature leads her on an adventure deep into Magic Space.

Martha watches as the new dog her family brings home grows through all the troublesome phases of being a puppy, and even though he does not develop Martha''s ability to speak, Skits displays his own unique talent.

Martha the talking dog rescues the neighborhood from a bully dog with the help of a parrot.

For use in schools and libraries only. Martha the dog eats some alphabet soup and starts to speak, to everyone''s amazement and eventual annoyance.

Publisher Description

Getting onto the wrong school bus was the pig''s first mistake.Her second was choosing to take the path through the forest.The next thing she knows, a wolf has grabbed her and thrown her into a sack, all the while singing a song about soup.Lucky for the pig, she''s smart and can read.She stalls for all the time she can, but pretty soon she realizes she''ll have to use the dreaded Hog-Eye stare: Hog-eye! Hog-eye! Magic stare! Make him itchy everywhere.On his nose and in his hair.Even in his underwear!

The many friends of the wounded tropical bird Harry adopts refuse to fly south without their companion and take up residence in the tree outside Harry''s bedroom window, refusing to budge even as the first snowstorm of the season approaches.

When she wins a call-in radio contest, Martha the talking dog and her family go for a vacation and manage to change the "no dogs allowed" policy.

Problems arise when Martha, the family dog, learns to speak after eating alphabet soup.

On their way to a Halloween party, Helen and her dog Martha happen upon a supermarket for witches.

The many friends of the wounded tropical bird Harry adopts refuse to fly south without their companion and take up residence in the tree outside Harry''s bedroom window, refusing to budge even as the first snowstorm of the season approaches.

Anna''s family plans to destroy a big, furry beast that comes out of the forest, but Anna is not convinced it''s dangerous. "Children will be thrilled to discover this story and its singularly imaginative color paintings." -- Publishers Weekly

Howard lives in a dark forest with ninety-nine other monsters who love to frighten him, until a tree falls and the sunlight sends all the mean monsters away.