Eve Merriam

Family Circle

Examines many different jobs performed by working mothers, including counting money in banks and building bridges.

Mommies at Work

Bernie Karlin

Uses ordinary experiences to present twelve combinations of numbers that add up to eleven. Example: At the circus, six peanut shells and five pieces of popcorn.

12 Ways to Get To 11

Jon Scieszka

Shel Silverstein

Jack Prelutsky

Perfect to read alone, with a friend, a parent, or your teacher, this book is filled with poems by a variety of well-known children's poets.

An Exclusive Collection of Poems

My Dog Does My Homework!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 __ 12 What happened to 11? Is it in the magician's hat? Maybe it's in the mailbox or hiding in the jack-o'-lantern? Don't forget to look in the barnyard where the hen awaits the arrival of her new little chicks. Could that be where eleven went? Eve Merriam and Bernie Karlin take young readers on a counting adventure as they demonstrate twelve witty and imaginative ways to get to eleven.

12 Ways to Get to 11

Your 2 1/2-year-old will enjoy pointing out familiar places and people in your neighborhood. Tips for reading and sharing: Discuss the people and places you and your child regularly see in your neighborhood Identify each character, then pause to let your child fill in his or her activity Make up rhymes about people you know For additional tips and more information on Harper Growing Tree, visit our website at

On My Street

Renowned for her wisdom, an old woman is sought out by people who come from far and wide, eager to discover the secret source of her insights. "You will have to discover it for yourself", she tells them, and so their search begins. But one little girl, who likes to wander and wonder, lag and linger, has already found the secret that eludes her elders". A text with profound implication".--"School Library Journal". Full color.

The Wise Woman and Her Secret

Harriet Sherman

Relates the activities, games, likes, dislikes, and dreams of four pairs of friends.

Boys & Girls, Girls & Boys

Describes all kinds of different holes, from straws to locks to noodles.

The Hole Story

Peter Thornton

On her birthday Helen follows messages that lead her all over the house and eventually to a special surprise.

The Birthday Door

You Be Good & I'll Be

A poetic guessing game that offers clues about the appearance and behavior of a variety of animals.

What in the World?

Poems that explore words, poetics, emotions and contemporary life.

Rainbow Writing

This multicultural anthology of excerpts from the journals, letters, and autobiographies of ten women portrays life as it was lived across America from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

Ten Lives

Growing Up Female in America

As timely today as when they were first written, Eve Merriam's pithy and provocative updates of traditional Mother Goose rhymes comment on social and political issues that still exist. Her satire brings attention to the conditions of our inner cities in a form that has long been a part of our folk tradition. Full color.

The Inner City Mother Goose

Thirty-five pages of brief, rhyming poems.

You Be Good and I'll Be Night

And I Ain't Finished Yet

Rhyming text celebrates various aspects of the world, from falling leaves and falling snow to hushaby tunes and little new moons.

Low Song

Eager to see all the presents, the family comes downstairs on Christmas morning to find just one long thin box under the tree.

Eve Merriam

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