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Pair with How to Catch a Dragon, from the New York Times bestselling How to Catch series for lots of fun-filled activities as the kids try to capture the elusive dragon!

In Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, author JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. introduces children to the wonders of their own brains. Through lively text and colorfully illustrated diagrams, children come to understand the integral role they play in stretching and shaping this powerful organ. Classroom activities in this instructional unit encourage children to reflect upon their experiences as individuals, particularly those related to personal success and areas for growth. The instructional activities also enabl

Perfect for interactive storytimes in bookstores, libraries, and classrooms, these activity guides for Bill Cotter's Don't Push the Button and Don't Touch This Book will get your kids up and about, laughing, dancing, and pushing buttons all over the place!

Featuring a rogue group of determined animals who love nothing more than a challenge and a flustered, helpless narrator, this hilarious picture book about animal habitats on every continent will have kids (and their adults!) laughing every time they pick it up.Turtles are found on every continent EXCEPT Antarctica. But not for long! When a David Attenborough-esque narrator explains that turtles are found everywhere except Antarctica, one determined turtle sets out to prove him wrong. After recr

The perfect way to celebrate Halloween—with New York Times bestseller How to Catch a Monster and a kit of scary good activities! Catching a monster can be a terrifying business, but with your ninja skills in hand, and this guide, you too can safely venture into the closet and find unexpected friends in odd places. Interactive questions get kids up and moving along with the story, while fun activities extend the fun past the end of the book.

Dinosaur Lady is a beautiful and brilliant picture book that will enlighten children about the discovery of the dinosaurs and the importance of female scientists. It also includes a timeline of Mary Anning's life and lots of fantastic fossil facts! A Common Core State Standards Aligned Activity Guide for Grades 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Everything you need to throw a party and catch an elf! Filled with fun games, coloring, and decorating tips you’ll be having so much fun, the kids won’t even realize when the elf slips from beneath your trap and makes a break for it. Pair with New York Times bestseller How to Catch an Elf by Adam Wallace for the perfect holiday fun!

Filled with games, coloring, and crafts to accompany There Was a Black Hole that Swallowed the Universe, an out of this world picture book that sparks creative conversations about celestial beings from the #1 science author for kids, Chris Ferrie!

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes an all-new, hilarious school adventure!The class pets escaped from their cages and are running loose in your school! Lizards, hamsters, rabbits, and birds are on the loose... and a bearded dragon is leading the hilarious escape. Join the fun and find out if YOU have what it takes to catch these riotous pets on their wild field trip! Featuring an approachable school theme that kids will relate to plus cute animal characte

An adorable rhyming Halloween book with educational nonfiction elements woven in, perfect for classrooms and libraries!Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me lots of BUGS to eat! Follow along as a young bat takes flight on Halloween night and eats lots of delicious bugs along the way! Includes educational backmatter with lots of fun facts about bats and their favorite insects.

Jingle all the way in this all new Christmas story for kids from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series!It's Christmas Eve and Santa's team is off to deliver presents when one of the trusted reindeer Comet decides to explore on her own... the perfect opportunity for our Catch Club Kids to trap her and prove Santa exists! Come along on this fun Christmas adventure to see if you can catch Comet! Poised to become a new holiday tradition, this merry picture book is filled w

No computer needed!Join Lacey Chu as she battles her robotic animal companion, Jinx, at her elite technology academy as she pursues her dream of becoming an engineer for MONCHA, the biggest tech firm in the world. But everything is not what it seems; and the closer Lacey gets to the truth, the more she begins to question everything she knows. This activity kit is the perfect companion to Jinxed by Amy McCulloch. Your students will learn the basics of coding and how to decode binary code! With e

This book engagingly leads readers around the world following a drop of water-whether as steam or snow, inside a plant or animal, or underground-teaching the wonders and importance of the water cycle. Geography topics and four pages of science about the qualities of water are included.

Can you catch the magical Loveosaurus? From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes an exciting Valentine’s Day treat about a rare new creature!The Catch Club Kids are on the chase again, this time to trap an escaped dinosaur that wants to spread love and kindness. Blending exciting traps and STEAM concepts with hilarity and chaos to encourage reading, learning, and imagination, this charming adventure will delight young readers, families, and educators alike—and m

In the following STEM challenges, students will design a nature-inspired solution to a problem. They involve making observations of a plant or animal, describing its most unique or interesting structures and functions, identifying a human problem that mimicking the plant or animal could solve, and designing and advertising an invention using biomimicry. About the Nature Did It First:Nature does it best … and did it first! Explore the ways we have looked to nature for brilliant new designs and in

Shark Lady is the inspiring story by critically acclaimed zoologist Jess Keating about finding the strength to discover truths that others aren’t daring enough to see. Includes a timeline of Eugenie’s life and many fin-tastic shark facts! This kit would make the perfect addition to any Shark Week activities!

Inspire kids to interact with the natural world around them with this sweet, hands-on picture bookConnect with nature in this interactive trip to an urban park full of wildlife! Little ones will be prompted to count the birds they see, point out colors, spread birdseed, and keep an eye out for other critters. As they follow and interact with the story, kids will learn how to use their senses to take in the amazing natural world around them.

Bestselling series: Continued expansion of an award-winning and bestselling series that keeps kids learning interesting animal facts in a unique and fun way. "Edutainment": Nonfiction that’s engaging, hilarious, and adorable. Kids—and adults alike—won’t even realize they’re learning because they’re having too much fun! Interactive format: This guessing-game format keeps things exciting by allowing readers to make their animal guesses before turning the page to reveal the answer!

It's a perfect day for the pool, and there's one important rule: Don't splash Grandpa!In this rhyming summertime picture book, one grumpy grandpa chaperones an awesome pool party with races, basketball, pool games, and cannonball contests. Everyone knows the rule: Don't splash Grandpa! But as the day progresses, the excitement grows, and the splashes get closer and closer to the edge, what will happen if Grandpa gets soaked? Don't Splash Grandpa is the perfect summertime repeat read-aloud for an

An incredible and uplifting true story about how music has healed troubled elephants in a sanctuary in Thailand.Some stories are true. Others are make-believe. And some true stories are so amazing that it seems they must be make-believe even when they are not… This is one of those stories. In a sanctuary in Thailand lived an elephant called Bonti. Short-tempered and destructive, Bonti was alone—the other elephants (and humans) knew to keep their distance. But when a musician came to play the pia