A charming picture book about friendship and looking for the bright side: "This offering is, to borrow the rabbit's two words, good news." — The Horn Book MagazineGood news: Rabbit and Mouse are going on a picnic. Bad news: It is starting to rain. Good news: Rabbit has an umbrella. Bad news: The stormy winds blow the umbrella (and Mouse!) into a tree.So begins this clever story about two friends with very different dispositions. Using just four wor...

★"An uproarious tale youngsters will eagerly return to."—Kirkus, starred review★ "Mack’s simple, recombinatory narration yields comedic results in this raucous work."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn this hilarious picture book readers will meet a bear, a hare, and some hair.A fuzzy brown bear and a fluffy pink hare disagree.About hair.Neither wants to go bare!Will they b...

When Pony gives Dog a present, things quickly spiral out of control in this sweet and funny first book in a Level 1 Ready-to-Read Graphics series from award-winning author-illustrator, Jeff Mack!Pony has a surprise for Dog—a pet rock! Dog would have preferred a T-Rex, or a moose, or a cow for a pet, but Pony says if Dog gives the pet rock a name, Dog will like it more. Dog names his pet rock Lulu the T-Rex and says it likes to eat ponies! Uh-oh. Will Dog and Pony a...

This inventive tale of two mice fighting over a rock is "conceptually rich and a whole lot of fun" ( School Library Journal).Start with one rock. Add two mice. The end result? A never-ending battle! Or is it?Using only one word, along with many brightly colored and lively illustrations, Jeff Mack, acclaimed author of Good News, Bad News, brings his hallmark humor to this rollicking book that will have readers of every age reconsidering whe...

This inventive tale of two mice fighting over a rock is "conceptually rich and a whole lot of fun" ( School Library Journal).Start with one rock. Add two mice. The end result? A never-ending battle! Or is it?Using only one word, along with many brightly colored and lively illustrations, Jeff Mack, acclaimed author of Good News, Bad News, brings his hallmark humor to this rollicking book that will have readers of every age reconsidering whe...

A Chicago Public Library Best BookA School Library Journal Best Book★ "Inspiring" – Kirkus, starred review★ "Delightful!" – School Library Journal, starred review★ "Thoughtful" – Horn Book Magazine, **starred reviewDoes art have to be perfect? Where do you begin? This inspiring picture book about making art doubles as an introduction to the multifaceted and diverse global hist...

Dog and Pony get stuck in a tree in the funny second book in a Level 1 Ready-to-Read Graphics series by award-winning author-illustrator Jeff Mack!Dog wants to climb a tree. Pony helps, but then Dog is too scared to climb back down! So Pony goes up the tree, too. Now neither of them can get back down! Dog thinks they’ll have to live in the tree forever, but Pony knows they can find a way back to the ground…even as it starts to snow.

Six slurpy stories, two comical combatants, and one laugh-out-loud picture bookFrog and Fly are constant companions. There is only one problem . . . Frog thinks Fly is delicious! This leads to a never-ending battle of wits with laugh-out- loud consequences. Told in six short comic stripstyle chapters, Frog and Fly will delight kids and leave them begging for yet another slurpy story.

For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Timmy Failure!What do you mean they don't give trophies for playing video games? It’s only fair, isn’t it? Clueless McGee has mastered his Ninja Warz video game and he’d like a trophy. It seems like a lot of extra work to have to win the science fair to get one. . . . Yet that trophy is REALLY nice. And Clueless does have an idea for a magnetic pickle that seems like an obvious winner. So okay, he’s in. Until someone steals the ...

Fans of The Bad Guys and Catwad will love THE CRYPTID CLUB, a hilarious new four-book graphic novel series about an unlikely team of kid sleuths out to solve the mysteries behind the sudden spate of monster sightings around their school.Lily knows better than to listen to the gossip her little brother, Henry, has heard, but when her school newspaper needs a big headline, the rumor that Bigfoot has been spotted is the best lead she’s got.

Dog helps Pony find the perfect dance pants in the funny third book in the Level 1 Ready-to-Read Graphics series by award-winning author-illustrator Jeff Mack!Dog loves to dance and wants Pony to try it too. But Pony has some trouble. It must be because Pony does not have dance pants like Dog does! Pony tries on all kinds of pants. It turns out, the best pants to dance in…are the ones Dog is wearing! How can they both dance with just one pair of dance pants? Don’t ...

**A 2025 Texas Topaz Non-Fiction PickAn engaging, kid-friendly introduction to artist Marcel Duchamp and how he turned a toilet into a famous work of art.**This is the story of Marcel Duchamp and how the Dada art movement changed the way people thought about what art could be, and what could be art. From drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa to attaching a bicycle wheel to a stool, Duchamp's work challenged long-held notions of art and how it should be made. People were amus...