Henry has started his own critter-sitting business, and his neighbors are his first paying customers. Watching this unruly menagerie is hardly a job for a beginner, but Henry is a true professional and never loses his cool. Still, it takes all his clever critter sitter tricks and a little luck to tame these animal antics and have all the furry, feathered, and slithery creatures back where they belong before the Mahoneys return. With a new, brighter palette and the same intricate detail and amazing perspectives, Critter Sitter will have readers poring over each page.

Having a baby-sitter has never been more fun! The hilarious animals from “1-800- Hire-R-Critters,” brought to life by Doug Cushman’s energetic illustrations and clever rhymes, make each night of the week a rollicking ride from supper to bedtime. A StarWalk Kids Digital Original book.

Available for the first time in eBook from the master of “Seinfeld-ian nothingness” (Time) a comic, not-so-coming-of-age tale of transitioning from his twenties to his thirties, recently optioned by Adam Sandler along with Dan Gets a Minivan. Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we develop a disturbing new interest in lawn care; the day we order Sauvignon Blanc instead of Rolling Rock; the day we refuse to see any concert where we cannot sit down. Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we turn uncool. Dan Zevin, who “was never exactly Fonz-like to begin with,” is having a hilariously hard time moving from his twenties to his thirties, and he confesses everything in these witty, self-deprecating tales. As he shamefully employs his first cleaning lady, becomes abnormally attached to his dog, and commits flagrant acts of home improvement, Dan’s headed for an early midlife crisis—and a better-late-than-never revelation: Growing up is really nothing to be reluctant about. In fact, it’s very cool.

Just fifteen years ago, “pet sitter” meant the kid down the street who helped feed pets when the neighbors traveled. Today, this fledgling field is fast becoming an established profession. Combining the appeal of working with animals, a viable customer base, and truly low start-up costs, it is for many people the ideal home-based business. And yet its “fun” aspects are often overshadowed by the daunting tasks of registering the business, purchasing insurance, and knowing what first steps to take and how to continue from there. With a simple, step-by-step format, How to Start a Home-Based Pet Sitting Business guides aspiring pet sitters from the dreaming stage to the doing stage more clearly and comprehensively than any such book to date.

Use art to stimulate content-area language development and writing skills! From A to Z, the 81 animal patterns combine with 35 different activities to enhance your primary curriculum. You give each student a photocopy of the pattern, paper, scissors, and some materials to decorate the critter. You can use Snipper Critters with a content-area activity, in the language arts block, in writing workshop, or as art enrichment. The not-so-usual animals in Snipper Critters represent most major animal families. Activities use facts about the animals and information about their habitats. Students learn about the world's animals and have fun, too! Use Snipper Critters to: build content-area vocabulary; help meet grade-level curriculum standards for math, science, and social studies; teach critical, informational writing skills; create art extensions for math, science, and social studies projects; build skills in research, writing, and verbalization; and develop a child's imagination. Snipper Critter activities fit with any curriculum and adapt easily to specific grade and ability levels. And, to save you time, the resource includes a bibliography of children's literature that features the critters, an index of ways to group the critters, and lists of physical characteristics and habitats of the animals.

Chloe and Professor Adams find a rattlesnake about to gobble up a mouse outside the professor's house. Then Chloe gets an idea: why not splice the snake with Essence of Cattle to make it friendlier? After the mutation is complete, Chloe and the professor have a cute but gargantuan cattlesnake problem on their hands. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

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