Spencer Knows Spring

Looking for a colorful picture book about spring that perfectly captures the season? Spencer Knows Spring is it! Spencer Knows Spring is a celebration of spring's arrival! Written in simple, engaging text, Spencer cheerfully observes the signs of spring. The beautiful, friendly and charming illustrations make this the perfect book to introduce spring to preschool and early elementary aged children. A good spring picture book featuring a young inviting main character and no specific holidays. After reading, your little one may be a spring expert just like Spencer! Winnie Loves Winter and Spencer Knows Spring are beautiful seasonal-themed picture books for the home and the classroom. Best picture books to introduce the winter and spring seasons. Get both for your season book collection!

In spring, people plant seeds in gardens. Students have their last weeks of school. See how everyone celebrates this special season.

A winsome calf provides the backdrop—literally—for this charming story. With each turn of the page, the young animal is imaginatively transformed to reflect some activity of the four seasons: snow melting, seedlings springing up, harvest, all the way to the snow melting again and revealing that—the calf has grown. The story line follows the cycle of the seasons from one spring to the next, and its spare, fluid text—wedded to the vigorous graphics—vividly conveys the underlying themes of renewal and growth. The colors are joyful and fresh, and the artist's playful approach to perspective makes this a lovely picture book.

Pea pods, cucumbers, and strawberries provide plenty of opportunities for counting in the garden Follow Dad, Grandma, and other family members as they pick and count. Hidden numbers on every page give readers an opportunity to search and learn.

Spring is in the air! Bear, Bird, and Mouse are all excited that winter snows are melting away, but their friend Rabbit is not. There are too many things about winter that Rabbit adores, and spring just seems to spell trouble. His friends offer an abundance of reasons to love spring and the changing seasons, but will Rabbit listen? Daniel Kirk has written a lively and humorous tale with the gentle message that change can be fun.

A tender, beautiful novel of love tested to the limits explores what happens when a soon-to-be-married young woman falls in love with another man. Reissue.

A contemporary fantasy of mystery and death as American expats battle Japanese gods and monsters to retrieve an ancient artifact that can destroy the world. On Saturday afternoon, Nikki Delany thought, "George Wilson, in the kitchen, with a blender." By dinner, she had killed George and posted his gory murder to her blog. The next day, she put on her mourning clothes and went out to meet her best friend for lunch to discuss finding a replacement for her love interest. Nikki is a horror novelist. Her choice of career is dictated by an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that forces her to write stories of death and destruction. She can't control it, doesn't understand it, but can use it to make money anywhere in the world. Currently "anywhere" is in Japan, hiding from her mother who sees Nikki's OCD as proof she's mentally unstable. Nikki's fragile peace starts to fall apart when the police arrest her for the murder of an American expatriate. Someone killed him with a blender. Reality starts to unravel around Nikki. She's attacked by a raccoon in a business suit. After a series of blackouts, shes accompanied by a boy that no one else can see, a boy who claims to be a god. Is she really being pursued by Japanese myths¾or is she simply going insane? What Nikki does know for sure is that the bodies are piling up, her mother has arrived in Japan to lock her up for the rest of her life¾and her novels always end with everyone dead. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

This is a story of money, power, greed and an unusual encounter with destiny.The victims of this story, the Sawyer family were like many in todays society who are manipulated and deceived by the very people one would not usually suspect. Because of the evilness of the villian in this story, Ethan Spencer, this family is thrown into a whirlwind of all sorts of ambiguous circumstances including murder. It is only by a bizare encounter with destiny this family is saved from what could have been their eventual ruin.

"Introduces the reader to the spring season."--