Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!Cats can code? These cats sure can! Playful rhyming verse and goofy illustrations introduce coding languages and syntax. Readers will learn why we need special languages for coding and see examples from a number of languages. And they'll quickly find out why correct syntax is key for avoiding up-mixes mix-ups! Author Brian P. Cleary, illustrator Martin Goneau, and t...

Is that a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a poem! Concrete poems are shaped like their subjects. They can look like objects, animals, or even people. You won't find many straight lines here! Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how concrete poems work—and uses them to create all sorts of wild wordplay. Ode to a Commode is packed with mind-bending poems to make you puzzle and ponder. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own concrete poems!

At lunch, / I ate three cans / of alphabet soup. / An hour later / I had / thesaurus / throat / ever.Would you care for a cupful of couplets? How about a helping of haiku? Brian P. Cleary offers poetry by the plateful in this clever collection! Wordplay and humor abound in poems that cover everything from pets to school to food—and much more. Eye-catching illustrations add to the fun, and the book is sprinkled with bonus facts about poetic forms and rhyme ...

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!What is a verb? It's easier to show than explain!In this fun and animated introduction to grammar, rhyming verse is used to creatively clarify the concept of verbs. Chock-full of colorful, lively examples, the playful rhymes and illustrations of comical cartoon cats combine to hightlight key words in the sentences. Verbs like toss and tumble...

Cats can code? These cats sure can! Playful rhyming verse and goofy illustrations introduce coding languages and syntax. Readers will learn why we need special languages for coding and see examples from a number of languages. And they'll quickly find out why correct syntax is key for avoiding up-mixes mix-ups! Author Brian P. Cleary, illustrator Martin Goneau, and the enthusiastic CATegorical cats offer a fun and accessible introduction to these key coding concepts.

Rhyming verse from Brian P. Cleary presents the fictional Clip-Clop Elementary School's celebration of "Onomatopoeia Day." Enthusiastic young students make their way from band room (Rattle! Boom! Twang!) to the gym (Whiff! Whack! Swish!) to the science lab (Hiss! Spurt! Ding!) and beyond. Brief back matter offers additional examples of onomatopoeias—words that imitate sounds.

The thing on the wing can sing. With rhyming, decodable text and comedic, colorful illustrations, this book provides plenty of examples of short vowel sounds with consonant digraphs and encourages readers to try the sounds for themselves.Reading is a blast in this hilarious book! Learn about short vowel sounds with sentences that get more complex as you read. The wacky rhymes and colorful art will make phonics fun!...

Prepositions do their job/in a way that just amazes—/Relating nouns and pronouns/to the other words and phrases.In this 20th anniversary edition of Under, Over, By the Clover, author Brian Cleary and illustrator Brian Gable provide numerous examples of prepositions. The text's playful rhymes combine with fun illustrations to build understanding of how this part of speech is used. New Try It! features, updated back matter, and a fr...

Are you as clever as a fox? Or perhaps you're as sharp as any spike? If so, this book will be a piece of cake!Clever rhymes from Brian P. Cleary and humorous illustrations from Brian Gable present similes and metaphors. When it comes to grammar, this team is not as slow as thick molasses. Oh no, they're as bright as polished pennies! Each simile and metaphor is printed in color for easy identification in this gem of a book. Read it aloud and share in the delight of...

Acrostic? What kind of stick is that? Actually, it's a poem! Acrostic poems are created from a word or phrase written vertically down the page. Each letter becomes part of a line in the poem, revealing a thought or a clue about the poem's topic. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary shows how even the wackiest words can make an acrostic poem.Bow-Tie Pasta is packed with acrostics to make you snicker and snort. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writin...

Quatrain? What kind of train is that? Actually, it's a poem! Quatrains are poems with patterns of rhyming words. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how quatrains work—and shows some of the many ways they can be written.I Saw an Invisible Lion Today is packed with poems on subjects ranging from grandmothers to muzaloos to make you giggle and howl. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own poems!

What do you get when you combine a poem and a joke? A limerick! These five-line rhyming poems are funny, silly, and sly. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how limericks work—and shows how these little poems can trigger big laughs. Something Sure Smells Around Here is packed with hilarious poems to make you chuckle and chortle. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own limericks!