This lively new counting song, set to the traditional tune "Over in the Meadow", introduces children to an array of creatures--from hummingbirds and roadrunners to Gila monsters and coyotes--in their natural habitat, the Sonoran Desert. Full color.

This toe-tapping text will have you singing along with the lovable creatures of the desert in no time! Filled with vibrant illustrations of many of the charming plants and animals that call the Sonoran Desert home, Way Out in the Desert is a wonderful teaching tool that takes you on a trip down memory lane. If you remember singing Over in the Meadow as a child, now you can give your children their own memories of this timeless tune. So take a child on a trip where Way out in the desert having fun in the sun lived a mother horned toad and her little toady one...

This Southwestern version of "This Is the House That Jack Built" details the roles played by desert animals in helping a small seed grow into a giant saguaro cactus. Includes a glossary. Full color.

Readers can take a peek into the forest in the daytime, when some animal families play and others are asleep, then flip the book to see the same forest at nighttime, when the ones that were playing are now asleep, and the families that were asleep are very busy. Full color.

Spectacular illustrations rendered in oil paint, and a rhyming text that describes a tree's activities from its roots to its branches, introduce young readers to the amazing activities that go on in a tree. Acorns nibbled by chipmunks, ants scurrying across a trunk, a spider spinning a web, leaves -breathing out air for all to breathe in---everything adds up to a -busy tree- for all to -come and see.-

There was an old pirate . . . who swallowed a fish, a bird, a map, some gold, and even a whole pirate ship Will the Old Pirate sink to the bottom of the deep, dark sea? Yo ho ho Watch his belly grow Jennifer Ward's take on the "Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" song is perfectly matched with Steve Gray's zany digital illustrations.