Discover the colorful, brilliant, dazzling life of an adjective! In this imaginative picture book, young grammarians are introduced to these busy words that describe nouns. Along with bright illustrations and colorful fonts, bestselling author Michael Dahl (If You Were a Verb and If You Were a Noun) delivers an imaginative read-aloud for your littlest grammarians.

Provides an introduction to verbs. Includes an activity.

Provides an introduction to nouns and proper nouns. Includes an activity.

On a hot summer day, Tina is initially too afraid to go down a big slide at the swimming pool until some new friends offer their help.

Dan and Sue are sure they can build a snowman taller than a tree - even if John and Zack don’t believe them. Rulers, yardsticks, and tape measures are useful tools for Dan and Sue, but will the snowman measure up?

Provides an introduction to adverbs. Includes an activity.

**Full of joy and wisdom, a heart-stopping, emotional debut showing that a life isn't measured in how long it stretches, but in how much love it can hold.“Fans of A Man Called Ove will devour this, as I did. Like a perfect piece of music, there is not an off note in this entire book. I loved it.” —Annabel Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author of Dolly All the Time**Alexander Kirk writes perfect love stories—but he doesn’t believe in them.

This comprehensive volume presents the biographies of 1,000 women who were active in the British decorative arts over the last few centuries. Some of these women are known today, some are not, yet all made valuable contributions in areas such as stained glass, metalwork, pottery, woodcarving, illustration, bookbinding and decoration, sculpture, decorative embroidery, decorative jewellery, and illumination.This volume is the largest of its kind to document the lives...

Alex the Alligator has a negative reaction to his best friend asking Alex's brother for help. Alex tells his mom that his friends are mean, that his brother, Andre, stole his friend, and that his friends do not like him. This book asks the readers to think about what really happened in the story and to come up with different strategies Alex could use to better handle his feelings with the same situation.

**Full of joy and wisdom, a heart-stopping, emotional debut showing that a life isn't measured in how long it stretches, but in how much love it can hold.“Fans of A Man Called Ove will devour this, as I did. Like a perfect piece of music, there is not an off note in this entire book. I loved it.” —Annabel Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author of Dolly All the Time**Alexander Kirk writes perfect love stories—but he doesn’t believe in them.

From an acclaimed social and architectural historian, the tumultuous, scandalous, glitzy, and glamorous history of English country houses and high society during the interwar periodAs WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tu...

Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world's most dynamic metropolis I Never Knew That About London unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city's compelling, and at times, turbulent past.See the Chelsea river views that inspired Turner in his final ye...