Yellow Pig's Christmas story reminds its readers of the true meaning of the Christmas season, using well-known characters such as the Yellow Pig and Santa to introduce a new character named Christmas. The book combines simple rhyming lines with beautifully illustrated pictures to create a story that teaches children what is truly important during the Christmas season. The events of the book take place on Christmas Eve, where the Yellow Pig, Imagine, has fallen asleep and stopped imagining of Christmas morning and Santa. When a candy cane fence entraps Rudolph the reindeer, it will be up to the Yellow Pig and his new friend, Christmas, to save the day for Santa. The children of the village grow angry, blaming Yellow Pig for their lack of gifts. The new character Christmas teaches children, both through words and pictures, that the holiday is not only about receiving gifts, but about celebrating the joy of the season. This important story will be made all the more clear to children reading these books as they engage with the easy-to-follow storyline and exquisitely illustrated pictures. The illustrations draw the reader into Yellow Pig's world, depicting a snowy Christmas Eve in a town lit up with holiday lights and Bethlehem's star. Bright colors splash across every page, constantly keeping the children interested and engaged with the pictures. The animated illustrations not only encourage children to continue to the end of the book, but also to connect the pictures with the words. By peaking their interest with these expressive illustrations, the book also captures their interest in reading as children wish to learn the story behind the pictures. Children will not not only engulfed in the action-packed story of Yellow Pig and Christmas saving the day for Santa and the children of the world, but they will also begin learn the true importance of Christmas. The book teaches children that the Christmas season is a time for love, forgiveness, and celebration, rather than selfishness. While instilling important values in its readers, the book also makes reading fun and engaging. The message of this book speaks out to its target audience of young children as well as their parents, combining classic Christmas characters such as Santa and Rudolph with the loveable Yellow Pig. This book will lead to a lifetime love of reading and learning for all young readers who travels along with Yellow Pig on his Christmas adventure.

One dark November night a stranger rides into a small prairie town. Who is he? Why has he come? The townspeople wish he were a doctor, a dressmaker, or a trader. But the children have the greatest wish of all, a deep, quiet, secret wish. Then a young girl named Lucy befriends the newcomer. When he reveals his identity and shares with her the legend of the candy cane, she discovers fulfillment of her wishes and the answer to her town's dreams. Now will she share what she has learned? Warm, lavish illustrations by James Bernardin bring to life a timeless tale by Lori Walburg, a story that will help families celebrate the mystery and miracle of Christmas—for many Christmases to come.

Icicle Falls is the place to be at Christmas... Everyone's getting ready for Christmas in Icicle Falls, especially on Candy Cane Lane, where holiday decorating is taken very seriously. Tilda Morrison, town cop, is looking forward to celebrating Christmas in her first house...until she discovers that she's expected to “keep up” with the neighbours, including Maddy Donaldson, the inspiration behind the whole extravaganza. But this year, someone's destroying Maddy's precious candy canes! Thank goodness for the cop in their neighbourhood. Tilda already has her hands full trying to sort out her love life and fix up her fixer–upper. Oh, and won't it be fun to have the family over for Christmas dinner? Not really... Then there's her neighbour, Ivy Bohn. As a newly single mom, Ivy can sum up the holiday in two words: Bah, humbug. But she's determined to give her kids a perfect Christmas. Despite family disasters, irritating ex–husbands and kitchen catastrophes, these three women are going to find out that Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year!

In a town just like this one, many people are preparing for Christmas. But they have forgotten what they are celebrating and why they are doing things. It takes an unexpected candy cane rain to help them remember the true joy that comes from the ultimate Christmas gift, baby Jesus.

A collection of three holiday mysteries includes stories by Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, and Leslie Meyer, and features fourteen Christmas recipes.

Candy is more than a sugary snack. With candy, you can become a scientific detective. You can test candy for secret ingredients, peel the skin off candy corn, or float an “m” from M&M’s. You can spread candy dyes into rainbows, or pour rainbow layers of colored water. You'll learn how to turn candy into crystals, sink marshmallows, float taffy, or send soda spouting skyward. You can even make your own lightning. Candy Experiments teaches kids a new use for their candy. As children try eye-popping experiments, such as growing enormous gummy worms and turning cotton candy into slime, they’ll also be learning science. Best of all, they’ll willingly pour their candy down the drain. Candy Experiments contains 70 science experiments, 29 of which have never been previously published. Chapter themes include secret ingredients, blow it up, sink and float, squash it, and other fun experiments about color, density, and heat. The book is written for children between the ages of 7 and 10, though older and younger ages will enjoy it as well. Each experiment includes basic explanations of the relevant science, such as how cotton candy sucks up water because of capillary action, how Pixy Stix cool water because of an endothermic reaction, and how gummy worms grow enormous because of the water-entangling properties.

Patty O'Leary invites all her friends, including Mary-Kate and Ashley, to a sleepover party in a toy store. When all the best toys start vanishing, the Trenchcoat Twins suspect there's an uninvited guest hiding in the store. Can they catch the thief or will Patty's party be a bust?