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Credit cards will not be charged until your order ships. Please do not mix in stock and upcoming titles on the same order, unless your order is to be held and shipped in its entirety when all titles are available.

Stan the Hot Dog Man by Ethel and Leonard Kessler is now in stock.
Hanna's Cold Winter by Trish Marx will be available June 2009!
Work is currently underway on Roger Bradfield's Hello, Rock. In 2010 we will be releasing Giants Come in Different Sizes also by Jolly Roger Bradfield!
We're happy to announce that Henry the Explorer, Henry the Castaway, Henry Explores the Mountains and Henry Explores the Jungle by Mark Taylor and Graham Booth will be republished in 2009 and 2010.


Stan the Hot Dog Man
20th Anniversary Edition
by Ethel and Leonard Kessler

Hot dogs save the day! Stan makes the best hot dogs around. At lunch time, he makes lots of new friends, too. Then a snowstorm hits, and some of Stan's new friends are stranded. It's Stan the Hot Dog Man to the rescue!

64 pages, 6" x 9", Ages 3-8
ISBN: 978-1-930900-39-4
Hardcover $17.95.
In stock now.

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Hardcover $17.95


Hanna's Cold Winter
by Trish Marx
illustrated by Barb Knutson


Hanna was a hippopotamus in the Budapest zoo. Hanna and the other hippos thrived in the warm springs which flowed from the ground.

One winter, however, it was so cold that the river froze. There was a war going on, and the people and animals were starving. But the people of Budapest made a plan to save their beloved hippos.

This heartwarming story, based on a true incident that took place during World War II, is beautifully told by Trish Marx. Barb Knutson's charming illustrations magically evoke the faraway place and time.

32 pages, 8" x 10", Ages 3-8
ISBN: 978-1-930900-40-0, Hardcover $18.95.
Available June 2009

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Hardcover $18.95


The Blueberry Pie Elf
by Jane Thayer
illustrated by Seymour Fleishman


One day the people who live with Elmer, who was a little elf, baked a blueberry pie. The minute Elmer had a chance he jumped right into that rich, melting pie and ate till his elfin stomach bulged. It was delicious, and Elmer wanted another one right away. But nobody can see an elf, or hear an elf, or feel an elf, so none of his people knew he was trying to tell them something.

Then, when Elmer was unhappily sampling cherry pie, he had an inspiration! But, dear reader, we can't give the ending away. Let's just say that Elmer's ingenious solution satisfied his craving for blueberry pie and, being a polite elf, he thanked his people.

Elmer has been the most appealing and industrious elf around for nearly fifty years, and he'll continue to delight children for generations to come. Seymour Fleishman's charming illustrations transform our familiar household world into the tiny world of elves.

32 pages, 6.75" x 9.5", Ages 3-8
ISBN: 978-1-930900-38-7, Hardcover $18.95.

This book is shipping now!

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Hardcover $18.95

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