We Think It's A Good Idea To Read "That Is Not A Good Idea!"

 

That Is Not a Good Idea! is a hilarious, interactive picture book from bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems, the creator of books like Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, the Knuffle Bunny series, the Elephant and Piggie series, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs, and many other new classics.

Inspired by the evil villains and innocent damsels of silent movies, Willems tells the tale of a hungry fox who invites a plump goose to dinner. As with the beloved Pigeon books, kids will be calling out the signature refrain and begging for repeated readings. The funny details in the full-color illustrations by three-time Caldecott Honoree Mo Willems will bring nonstop laughter to story time.
 
One day, a very hungry fox meets a very plump goose.

A dinner invitation is offered.

Will dinner go as planned? Or do the dinner plans involve a secret ingredient . . . ?

(Don't forget to listen to the baby geese!)

From the brilliant mind of Mo Willems comes a surprising lesson about listening to your inner gosling.

“In the great tradition of the bestiaries of yore... Largo... parades the real, the extinct and the imagined for our shivers and delectation. ... Fascinating. ... An entertaining and occasionally enlightening read.” --Kirkus Reviews

 

The world's wildest collection of animal knowledge and lore!
 
Lions, and tigers, and bears . . . and dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters. Oh my!

For hundreds of years, the most popular books in the Western world next to the Bible were "bestiaries," fanciful encyclopedias collecting all of human knowledge and mythology about the animal kingdom. In these pages, eagles and elephants lived next to griffins and sea monsters. Now, in The Big, Bad Book of Beasts, award-winning author Michael Largo has updated the medieval bestsellers for the twenty-first century, illuminating little-known facts, astonishing secrets, and bizarre superstitions about the beasts that inhabit our world—and haunt our imaginations. You'll learn about the biggest bug ever, the smallest animal in the world, and the real creatures that inspired the fabled unicorns. You'll discover how birds learned to fly, why cats rub against your legs, and a thousand other facts that will make you look at nature in a wonderfully new way.

Did you know?

The fastest animal in the world is the peregrine falcon, which reaches speeds of over 200 miles per hours.

Circus ringmaster P.T. Barnum fooled many when he displayed a "mermaid" carcass that was later proved to be monkey bones sewed together with the body of a fish.

Discovered in a remote volcanic crater in New Guinea, the Bosavi wolly rat grows to the size of a cat.

President Andrew Jackson bought an African gray parrot to keep his wife company. The bird outlived them both and was removed from Jackson's funeral for cussing in both English and Spanish.

A to Z: From Aardvark to Zooplankton!

For all ages!

Includes 289 illustrations!

TC Tidbit: 10 Films That Barely Resemble The Books They''re Based On

From dejareview.com

Great YA Titles Now In Paperback

Since her parents' bitter divorce, McLean and her dad, a restaurant consultant, have been on the move-four towns in two years. Estranged from her mother and her mother's new family, McLean has followed her dad in leaving the unhappy past behind. And each new place gives her a chance to try out a new persona: from cheerleader to drama diva. But now, for the first time, McLean discovers a desire to stay in one place and just be herself, whoever that is. Perhaps Dave, the guy next door, can help her find out.

Life As We Knew It meets Lord of the Flies in a mall that looks just like yours

A biological bomb has just been discovered in the air ducts of a busy suburban mall. At first nobody knows if it's even life threatening, but then the entire complex is quarantined, people start getting sick, supplies start running low, and there's no way out. Among the hundreds of trapped shoppers are four teens.

These four different narrators, each with their own stories, must cope in unique, surprising styles, changing in ways they wouldn't have predicted, trying to find solace, safety, and escape at a time when the adults are behaving badly.

This is a gripping look at people and how they can--and must--change under the most dire of circumstances.

And not always for the better.

The second book in Condie's New York Times-bestselling Matched trilogy. In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of KyNtaken by the Society to his certain deathNonly to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake.

This is NOT a Children's Book, But It Sure Is Funny

Unicorns are just like us. They have problems, stresses, and like to blow off some steam. Author and illustrator C. W. Moss explores the psyche of the single-horned in his book, Why Unicorn Drinks.

A follow-up to Unicorn Being a Jerk, this volume of nearly 65 four-color illustrations and captions portrays the sad reality of life as a mythical creature, and reveals what drives Unicorn to the bottle.

As fans of Moss' online comic undoubtedly know, Why Unicorn Drinks pours a double-shot of laughter and irreverence. You’ll never look at a unicorn the same way again.

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From the folks at thekitchn.com

"'American Elsewhere' conjures up echoes of the best works of Ray Bradbury and Stephen King. ...manages to surprise, terrify and move the reader." --Los Angeles Times (No Wonder Hank Likes It)

 

Ex-cop Mona Bright has been living a hard couple of years on the road, but when her estranged father dies, she finds she's had a home all along: a little house her deceased mother once owned in Wink, New Mexico.

And though every map denies Wink exists, Mona finds they're wrong: not only is Wink real, it is the perfect American small town, somehow retaining all the Atomic Age optimism the rest of world has abandoned.

But the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people in Wink are very, very different - and what's more, Mona begins to recognize her own bond to this strange place, which feels more like home every day.

Hank says:
"When Mona Bright's estranged father dies, leaving her a house she didn't know her long-dead mother had owned in the small town of Wink, New Mexico, you can pretty much figure it's not going to go smoothly. For one thing, it's not that easy even to find Wink, but when she manages to get there, the arrival of a newcomer in a bright red car distracts attention from a funeral, because--well, there are never, ever newcomers there. For another, the first chapter has shown us a distraught group of criminals escaping (minus one of the contingent) from a house in Wink their boss sent them to on a mission, and it proved to be Just Not a Normal House on the inside. 

After townspeople grudgingly help her locate her mother's house, she decides to take up residence, and see what she can find out about the end of her mother's life. No one is at all forthcoming, but she starts to fit in a little bit, in spite of people's resistance. With some effort, the prevailing attitude of Not Talking About That begins to peel away, and Mona gets an inkling about the strange forces in control of Wink, and how her mother's history fits in. Bennett steadily builds the suspense to a satisfying, confrontational climax I don't want to spoil. However, I think we can all be glad that nonfictional families pretty much stick to being dysfunctional in a single dimension! During various parts of the story, I was reminded of things I've liked in books by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and especially Clive Barker, but I did not find it to be annoyingly derivative."