Akron Public Library

"A girl's frightening and exciting first day of school is full of prowling dragons that aren't quite what they seem"--

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie's tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up, remains one of the most beloved children's books ever written. For nearly a hundred years, kids across the world have drifted off to sleep dreaming about Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys, pixie dust and ticking clocks, crocodiles and Captain Hook. But in spite of the story's visual richness, it has never been illustrated photographically until now. In this lavishly produced edition of the...

"When the children discover a bear at the librarian's desk at story time, they think he's the new librarian. He's not!"--

Elephant wants to play hide and seek. See if you can help the others find him? He's very good! Have you seen elephant? is an assured and exciting debut from a top emerging talent.

"Meet the Book Buddies, toys that can be checked out from the library, just like books. For the Book Buddies, every borrowing is a new adventure."--Cover page [4].

When a bluebird comes upon a dinosaur who's down in the dumps, he asks what's wrong. "¡Tengo hambre!" says the dinosaur. I'm hungry! Does the dinosaur want a banana? "¿Plátano? No." Fish? "¿Pescado? No, gracias." Nothing seems to do the trick! What does dinosaur want to eat? This delightful bilingual picture book is about finding just the right food--and just the right friend.

Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for anything, but when he inexplicably turns green and finds himself in an experimental hospital ward with his nemesis, school bully Tommy-Lee "Grim" Komissky, everyone is baffled but Rory believes he and Grim have become superheroes.

Pinkalicious: A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink. Silverlicious: When Pinkalicious loses her sweet tooth she turns to the Tooth Fairy for help. Goldilicious: Pinkalicious and her brother play with her imaginary gold-horned unicorn that can float on water, fly, and turn herself into a fairy princess. Purplicious: When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink,...

Mysteries according to Humphrey (Book 8): Mrs. Brisbane is missing! She just didn't show up in Room 26 one morning. The class has a substitute teacher, called Mr. E., but he's no Mrs. Brisbane. Humphrey has just learned about Sherlock Holmes, so he vows to be just as smart about collecting clues and following leads to solve the mystery of Mrs. Brisbane. Winter according to Humphrey (Book 9): The holidays are coming and Humphrey is unsqueakably excited....

Andy and Terry live in a 117-story treehouse. (It used to be a 104-story treehouse, but it just keeps growing!) It now has a pajama-party room, a water-ski park filled with flesh-eating piranhas, an Underpants Museum, a giant-fighting-robot arena, and the Door of Doom. For as long as Andy and Terry have been writing books together, Andy has always been the narrator and Terry has always been the illustrator. But when Terry tries to prove that he can...