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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text detail what a young girl observes during her first camping trip--even while she is dreaming. On board pages.

The debut picture book from the creator of the viral sensation Kid President is a moving take on how we can create bigger and bigger circles of community and connections as we grow—now a New York Times bestseller! In the circles all around us, everywhere that we all go, there's a difference we can make and a love we can all show. This is the story of a circle. When we're first born, our circle is very small, but as we grow and build relationships, our circle keeps getting bigger and bigger to include family, friends, neighbors, community, and beyond. Brad Montague originally created Circles as an Instagram video adorably narrated by his kids, and now this picture book adaptation is the perfect way to start a conversation about how to expand our worlds with kindness and inclusivity—even if it seems scary or uncomfortable. This book makes an ideal new-baby, first-day-of-school, or graduation gift, or any milestone that celebrates someone's world getting bigger.

A sequel to the now-classic "Ellen Foster" picks up Ellen's life five years later, at 15, with a new mother, a home, a mind too large for her surroundings, and a brave and compassionate integrity.

In Miracles All Around Me ? The Unexpected Gifts of My Mother's Alzheimer's, the author choronicles her role as primary caregiver to her mother who struggled with early onset Alzheimer's the final decade of her life while also confronting the challenges of her father's stroke and her brother's suicide. Help and guidance appeared along the way and surprisingly revealed silver linings to the dark clouds of emotional pain that is involved in end-of-life issues. This is a candid, gritty, and often witty account of negotiating nursing homes, hospice, funeral homes, doctors, lawyers, the Veterans Administration and Social Security. Marsha Burris? array of experiences prompted an interest in Reiki and other alternative medicine approaches and produced a growth in the maturity of her spirituality.

This is an abomination of a book filled with goblins, profanities, goblins, jokes about humans, and goblins. Joh Ni is an unlikeable little green vegetarian bastard that’s been fed up with stupidity, even his own. His whole battalion is killed by a human hero, but unfortunately, he is now haunted by the ghosts of his 496 dead fellows, urging him of all goblins to take revenge. Even though he can’t even see blood Joh Ni tries his best to lay the ghosts to rest and finally get some quiet in his head. But on his way to redemption, it seems like everyone from drug-addicted elves up to interdimensional monsters is trying to stop him, including his lector... Oh, and all of this is actually a love story... kinda.

Repetitive, predictable story lines and illustrations that match the text provide maximum support to the emergent reader. Engaging stories promote reading comprehension, and easy and fun activities on the inside back covers extend learning. Great for Reading First, Fluency, Vocabulary, Text Comprehension, and ESL/ELL!