An 11-year old girl named Lulu meets a delightful creature called a hi. Hies are not very bright, but they're very nice. They are fat and they can change sizes. They love purple and hate orange and black.

This book is about a Christmas adventure underground. Why underground, you say? That's because it's about gophers and that is where they live and where they go to school. Their world is very similar to ours and it's happening right under our feet... It's also where they make lists of presents they want Santa Gopher to bring them for Christmas. Join Oliver Longteeth and his gopher friends on an adventure to find Santa Gopher and give him their Christmas lists. It's a surprising adventure filled with twists and turns and ups and downs, and these are only in the tunnels!

For newly independent reader fans of ELEPHANT & PIGGIE, here’s a book featuring two best friends who love to have fun at the playground. Bruno likes straight-forward adventure while Lulu uses her over-the-top imagination to play. In two short, funny episodes, readers discover why Bruno and Lulu's different personalities help them become even better friends. With simple vocabulary and sentence structure, and told solely through speech bubbles, these adventures are just right for new readers.

The Adventures of Mudpie is the first book in a series called Raindrop Angels, written for all storytellers-parents, teachers, siblings, aunts. uncles, and friends-who want to take a child's imagination to places where small angels playfully provoke their thoughts. Mother Angel reviews children's thoughts, prayers, desires, and selects an angel to support and nurture each child. The angel is assigned a mission. It's the mission that becomes the adventure as the angel works to earn his wings and becomes the child's guardian angel. This story will enchant young and old providing warming thoughts, and bringing about memories of playful times past. Childhood is timeless for children-a phase of endless creativity. Watch your child's eyes light up as characters in the story venture into situations that make their small world larger than life! This chapter book will surely be treasured by your child wanting to hear the story over and over again.

In a village where the flowers grow as big as trees, lives a girl named Lily Huckleberry. As a member of the Worldwide Adventure Society, Lily's magic globe takes her on spectacular adventures around the world. In this first book of the series, Lily goes to Scandinavia for a Midsummer party, where she finds herself ker-splat in the middle of a strawberry mystery. As Lily travels around Scandinavia to save Midsummer, she meets a menagerie of friends, explores Nordic culture, and discovers the thrill of being brave enough to take big risks.

Lulu and her cousin Rocky are visiting the city of Milwaukee. There are so many fun things to see and do, like canoeing, visiting a lighthouse, riding surrey-bikes, going to a fish fry, and even gearing up and burning rubber at the Harley-Davidson Museum! Written by Barbara Joosse and illustrated by Renée Graef, this first book in the Our City Adventures series explores the city of Milwaukee, visiting well-known sites and attractions as well as unexpected gems.

Separation and miles cannot keep a determined cardinal from his loved one in an ode to serendipity and belief that is destined to be a Christmas classic. Red and Lulu make their nest in a particularly beautiful evergreen tree. It shades them in the hot months and keeps them cozy in the cold months, and once a year the people who live nearby string lights on their tree and sing a special song: O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree. But one day, something unthinkable happens, and Red and Lulu are separated. It will take a miracle for them to find each other again. Luckily, it’s just the season for miracles. . . . From Matt Tavares comes a heart-tugging story combining the cheer of Christmas, the magic of New York City, and the real meaning of the holiday season: how important it is to be surrounded by love.