The Stupids Have a Ball


Book Description

The Stupid family celebrates the children's awful report cards by inviting their relatives to a costume party. "Everybody's pet crazies make a return appearance in Allard's story and Marshall's color cartoons, the sequel to their hit The Stupids Step Out." -- Publishers Weekly




The Stupids Step Out


Book Description

When the Stupid family decides to go out, they do so in typically stupid fashion.




The Stupids Have a Ball


Book Description

The Stupid family celebrates the children's awful report cards by inviting their relatives to a costume party.




The Stupids Take Off


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In an attempt to avoid a visit from Uncle Carbuncle, the Stupids fly off in their airplane to visit several other relatives who are just as stupid as they are.




The Stupids Die


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The Stupid family thinks they are dead when the lights go out. "Excellent pacing, concise, witty prose, and artwork perfectly suited to the text." -- School Library Journal, starred review




Bumps in the Night


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Dudley Stork enlists his friends to help rid his house of things that go bump in the night.




The Clown of God


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This beautiful new edition of Tomie dePaola’s 1978 classic retelling of a French legend stars a little juggler whose unique talent leads him to what might be a Christmas miracle. Little Giovanni is poor and homeless, but he can do something wonderful: he can juggle. The people of Sorrento marvel at his talents, and before long, he becomes famous throughout Italy for his rainbow of colored balls that delight the nobility and townspeople alike. But as the years pass, Giovanni grows old, and his talents begin to fail him. No longer a celebrated performer, he is once again poor and homeless, begging for his food. Until one Christmas Eve, when Giovanni picks up his rainbow of colored balls once more. And what happens next just might be a miracle…




Miss Nelson Has a Field Day


Book Description

Librarian from the black lagoon: A class plans their first visit to the library.




Mummy Laid an Egg!


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MINI TREASURES: delightful mini picture books to treasure forever. MUMMY LAID AN EGG Mum and Dad decide it's time to tell the kids about the facts of life. But do they dare? And do the really know everything about the birds and the bees?




Living Up The Street


Book Description

In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.