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81) Monster Mayhem
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Fairytale world or monster ball, which one will you choose? In each a race to find the prize, will you win or lose? Austin, Alanna, and wiener dog Ozzy are going to a Monster Ball!
With the help of a magic paintbrush, Austin has been transformed into a werewolf, and Alanna has become a vampire. Their mission is to find a crystal ball, but when a pair of evil skeletons steal a witch's wand, mayhem ensues on the dance floor. Can Austin and Alanna take...
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J. D. McClatchy, Professor of English at Yale University, is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Hazmat. The author of two volumes of literary essays and several opera libretti as well, he has edited numerous books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry. McClatchy has been Editor of The Yale Review since 1991.
They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the...
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With a cast of creepy characters and funny rhymes to read aloud, this Halloween book from Roger Priddy is a spooktacular delight!
The youngest trick-or-treaters will love the fuzzy cover, googly eyes, and spooky pages that are perfect for little hands to interacte with.
Funny Faces Halloween Jack is the perfect way for kids to learn all about the Halloween holiday: the pumpkins, candy, costumes and more.
Meet the Funny Faces and all their friends...
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Eavan Boland (1944–2020) was a poet and writer. Her books included Against Love Poetry.
They are nine women with much in common-all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood.
After Every War is a book of translations of women poets living...
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"Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America" "Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center" Charles Simic (1938–2023) was a poet, essayist, and translator who won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. From 2007 to 2008 he was U.S. Poet Laureate. A native Serbian speaker, he published English translations...
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Roger Priddy's wonderfully illustrated Funny Faces Santa Claus is full of Christmas characters and funny rhymes to read aloud, making this festive children's book a holiday delight!
With each turn of the page starting from the fuzzy cover, children will watch as Santa's googly eyes and squishy red nose become part of the faces of a snowman, elf, reindeer, and more in this perfect read for the holiday season.
Meet the Funny Faces and all their friends...
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With spooky illustrations and funny rhymes to read aloud, this haunted house book from Roger Priddy is a Halloween delight!
Featuring a fuzzy cover, googly eyes, and a new spooky-silly character on every page, this book is sure to become a Halloween favorite. The youngest trick-or-treaters will love the sturdy pages, perfect for little hands to turn!
Meet the Funny Faces and all their friends in this great series of preschool storybooks. Each book...
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Susan Stewart is the author of five books of poems, including Red Rover and Columbarium, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other books include Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, which won the Christian Gauss and Truman Capote prizes for literary criticism, and The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics. A former MacArthur Fellow, she is the Annan Professor of English at Princeton and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets....
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Maurice Maeterlinck (1862?1949) was a Belgian playwright and poet who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. He wrote numerous plays including Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), which later inspired an opera by Debussy. Richard Howard has translated over 150 works from the French and published 13 collections of his own poetry. In 1983 he received the American Book Award for his translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, and in 1970 he was...
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"Winner of the 2012 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, American Academy of Arts and Letters" "Runner-Up for the The 2011 Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for German Translation), The Society of Authors" "Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center" Michael Hofmann is an award-winning poet and translator. His Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) appeared in 2009. His other books include the anthology Twentieth-Century...
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Open the MAGIC face paints and adventure awaits . . .
Fairy world or superheroes, which one will you choose? In each a race to find the prize, will you win or lose?
Magic face paints have transformed Austin, Alanna, and wiener dog Ozzy into superheroes! When two supervillains swoop into the busy City Museum in a flying machine, they steal a priceless gem, and Austin and Alanna narrowly escape being hit with their Freeze Ray.
Alanna...
94) Charlie Monkey
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A fun and adorable series of multi-sensory board books from bestselling children's book author Roger Priddy.
Funny Faces Charlie Monkey features wacky characters and crazy tales that kids will love to read, again and again. It includes a touch and feel element on every page.
Each book also features an electronic sound that kids will love to hear. This book provides a fun sensory learning experience for curious young minds.
Meet the Funny Faces...
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With a cast of adorable animal characters and funny rhymes to read aloud, this farm-themed book from Roger Priddy is a true delight!
The youngest farmers will love reading Funny Faces Chirpy Chick, again and again. It's the perfect way for kids to learn all about life on the farm, the barn animals, and more.
Meet the Funny Faces and all their friends in this great series of preschool storybooks. Each book has a fun story told in rhyming text as...
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Open the MAGIC face paints and adventure awaits . . .
Pirate ship or robot world, which one will you choose? In each a race to find the prize, will you win or lose?
Austin, Alanna, and wiener dog Ozzy have been transformed into pirates! Their mission is to find a golden treasure chest before their time in this world runs out.
When two very suspicious pirates climb aboard the New Leaf ship and start snooping around, Austin and Alanna know they must...
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"Runner-Up for the 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center" Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. He is the author of Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams. He has also published two volumes of essays, A Driftwood Altar and Mr and Mrs Stevens and Other Essays. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
A new translation of a masterpiece...
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"Take nothing with you, but two mules, a rifle, and ten bullets."
Those words echo in ex-surgeon Frank Quinn's head as he flees across mid-19th century America to escape the demon known as Thousand Faces, an evil entity that uses blood to enslave others and will stop at nothing to conquer the world.
Philippe Thirault, writer of the acclaimed Miss: Better Living Through Crime and Balkans Arena, collaborates with artists Marc Malès (Different Ugliness...
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"Take nothing with you, but two mules, a rifle, and ten bullets."
Those words echo in ex-surgeon Frank Quinn's head as he flees across mid-19th century America to escape the demon known as Thousand Faces, an evil entity that uses blood to enslave others and will stop at nothing to conquer the world.
Philippe Thirault, writer of the acclaimed Miss: Better Living Through Crime and Balkans Arena, collaborates with artists Marc Malès (Different Ugliness...
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