Dear Kids, A long time ago, when you were little, Mom and I took you to where we wanted to build a house. . . . I remember there was one tree, however, that the three of you couldn’t stop staring at. . . . After the family spares him from the builders, Steve the tree quickly works his way into their lives. He holds their underwear when the dryer breaks down, he’s there when Adam and Lindsay get their first crushes, and he’s the centerpiece at their outdoor family parties. With a surprising lack of anthropomorphizing, this is a uniquely poignant celebration of fatherhood, families, love, and change.

“Steve is a fine horse. But he thinks he could be finer. He wants to be EXCEPTIONAL.” When Steve finds a gold horn in the forest and attaches it to his head, ta-da! Exceptional! His friends are so impressed, they, too, attach objects to their own heads, in an effort to be as exceptional as Steve. So when Steve suddenly realizes his horn has gone missing, he’s devastated! He won’t be exceptional without his horn! Or will he? A laugh-out-loud tale of an endearingly self-absorbed horse who learns that there’s more than one way to blow your own horn!

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Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

Alan Zweibel dusts off some hilarious material written years ago that stand the test of time. An original Saturday Night Live writer, award winning author and playwright, Zweibel releases three never before published short stories: The Prize, The Ride Home, and Sexting with Alan Dershowitz pulled from Alan 's Bottom Drawer delivered directly to your eReader. You ll be laughing within seconds...Okay, minutes...Okay, the next day. But that's still good, right? " One of the best comedy writers around, Alan Zweibel is my bounce guy. We ve been friends for so long we have our own comedic shorthand. We totally get each other 's sense of humor. " Larry David " He 's wonderfully funny and very smart and he 's a big guy, but very sensitive. " Billy Crystal " Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. " Dave Barry " Read Alan Zweibel and you ll be reminded of the likes of Robert Benchley and S.J. Perelman. You can t help but be moved by his warmth and insight even as you laugh your ass off. " David Steinberg About the Author An original Saturday Night Live writer who the New York Times said has earned a place in the pantheon of American pop culture, Alan Zweibel has won multiple Emmy, Writers Guild, and TV Critics awards for his work in television which also includes "It 's Garry Shandling 's Show," "Monk," PBS 's "Great Performances," and "Curb Your Enthusiasm." A frequent guest on talk shows such as "The Late Show with David Letterman," Alan 's many theatrical contributions include the Tony Award winning play "700 Sundays" which he collaborated on with Billy Crystal, Martin Short 's Broadway hit "Fame Becomes Me," and the off-Broadway play "Bunny Bunny Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy" which he adapted from his best-selling book. Alan has written the 2006 Thurber Prize winning novel "The Other Shulman," the popular children 's book "Our Tree Named Steve," and a collection of short stories and essays titled "Clothing Optional." His humor has also appeared in such diverse publications as "Esquire," "The Atlantic Monthly," "The New York Times" Op-Ed page, "The Huffington Post," and "MAD Magazine." The co-writer of the screenplays for the films "Dragnet," "North," and "The Story of Us," Alan recently received an honorary PhD. from the State University of New York and in 2010 the Writers Guild, East gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award. Alan is currently working with Billy Crystal on the feature film version of "700 Sundays" to be directed by Barry Levinson, executive producing a documentary mini-series for Showtime with Steve Carell and David Steinberg and writing a novel titled "Lunatics" with Dave Barry which Putnam is publishing in January. And on the TV screen he will be appearing as a new character in the upcoming season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and in a short film for "Funny or Die." But the production that Alan is most proud of is the family he 's co-produced with his wife Robin, their children Lindsay, Sari, and Adam, Adam 's wife Cori, and grandchildren Zachary and Alexis.

A young boy, Richie Evans, receives a unique pet that has the head and feet of a duck with the shell of a turtle. Richie cares for his "Turbie" responsibly. This cupcake eating "turtle-duck" grows up rather quickly, and reveals his amazing gift of flight by spinning his four duck feet like propellors!

This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year—even "holidays" you've never heard of—and provides hundreds of fun titles and activities that could inspire your students to become life-long readers. Young students need to continually be presented with a vast variety of types of books, authors, illustrators, and subject matter in order to find the perfect concept or image that sparks their imagination, takes their comprehension to a new level, or helps them turn the corner to becoming a book lover. Nancy J. Polette's The Picture Book Almanac: Picture Books and Activities to Celebrate 365 Familiar and Unusual Holidays can be used year-round as a key to open that great literary treasure vault. The books Polette has painstakingly selected for their value as learning opportunities tie into both familiar and unusual holidays, ranging from official, nationally recognized holidays to obscure ones such as Milk Day and Thesaurus Day. The daily featured book titles cover the classics, such as books in the Paddington Bear series and Cinderella to outstanding current and just-published titles, collectively representing the best choices for collection building over time. This book is an excellent tool for collection development as well as an indispensable resource for reading teachers and classroom teachers.