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"Princess Belle from Disney "Beauty and the Beast" meets a sweet pony named Petite in this full-color storybook featuring a glittery cover and pages."--Amazon.

Meet Bayou, Disney Princess Tiana’s special Palace Pet, in this step 2 levelled reader with over 30 stickers! Welcome to the magical world of Palace Pets, where each Disney Princess has a furry pet to love and care for! Bayou is a pony who moves to New Orleans to be Princess Tiana’s special Palace Pet! But will this shy pony fit in at the lively city? Young readers and Disney Princess Palace Pets fans ages 4 to 6 will love this book, which is full of sweet, cuddly pets–and 30+ stickers! Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.

Who's the bravest pet in Whisker Haven? The Disney Palace Pets Sultan, Treasure, and Pumpkin compete to find out in this Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader that's perfect for children ages 4 to 6! Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Read along with Disney! Ariel and Prince Eric are getting married! But Ariel has never been to a human wedding before and she's not sure what to do! Ariel is worried her family won't be able to come if she has a huamn wedding. Follow along with word-for-word narration to see if Ariel and Prince Eric can plan the wedding of their dreams . . . with both their families!

Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its existence in a netherworld between the literary system and the educational system. In addition to its official readership—children—it has to be approved of by adults. Writers for children, explains Zohar Shavit, are constrained to respond to these multiple systems of often mutually contradictory demands. Most writers do not try to bypass these constraints, but accept them as a framework for their work. In the most extreme cases an author may ignore one segment of the readership. If the adult reader is ignored, the writer risks rejection, as is the case of popular literature. If the writer utilizes the child as a pseudo addressee in order to appeal to an adult audience, the result can be what Shavit terms an ambivalent work. Shavit analyzes the conventions and the moral aims that have structured children's literature, from the fairy tales collected and reworked by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm—in particular, “Little Red Riding Hood”—through the complex manipulations of Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to the subversion of the genre's canonical requirements in the chapbooks of the eighteenth century, and in the formulaic Nancy Drew books of the twentieth century. Throughout her study Shavit, explores not only how society has shaped children's literature, but also how society has been reflected in the literary works it produces for its children.