"Jacques Cousteau was the world s ambassador of the oceans. His popular TV series brought whales, otters, and dolphins right into people s living rooms. Now, in this exciting picturebook biography, Dan Yaccarino introduces young readers to the man behind the snorkel. From the first moment he got a glimpse of what lived under the ocean s waves, Cousteau was hooked. And so he set sail aboard the Calypso to see the sea. He and his team of s ..."
Oswald by DanYaccarino Library, 24 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-4352-7209-5, ISBN: 1-4352-7209-9
Go, Go America(1st Edition) 50 States of Fun by DanYaccarino Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2008 by Scholastic Press ISBN-13: 978-0-439-70338-3, ISBN: 0-439-70338-7
"From the always original Dan Yaccarino, this is no ordinary book of state facts--it’s wacky, it’s bizarre, it’s a rip-roaring family road trip!What state’s official cookie is the chocolate chip cookie?What state hosts the International Rotten Sneaker Contest?Which state is it illegal to enter with a chicken on your head?To find the answers to these questions and hundreds more, just hitch a ride with the fabulous Farley family--Mom, Dad, ..."
"Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief amo ..."
""The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" —Midwest Children's Book Review It's Sammy's birthday, which should be a good thing, except that Dorito, Sammy's cat, is missing, and while Sammy's searching for him, she finds three dead cats in dumpsters around town. Worse still, Miss Kitty, a psycho cat lady, blames Sammy when it turns out one of the dead cats belonged to her. As if Sammy didn't have ..."
"POOR OLLIE! ALL he wants is to practice playing his big bass horn, but his family can’t take the noise. So off Ollie goes in a rowboat to practice offshore. That’s when he realizes that the bell buoy has drifted away–and the fog is getting thick. So he stays and plays his horn as a warning to an incoming ship–and saves it from running aground! Suddenly, the mayor isgiving Ollie a medal for bravery, and best of all, the town pays for him ..."
Five Little Pumpkins by DanYaccarino Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 2008 by Harpercollins Children's Books ISBN-13: 978-0-00-728881-6, ISBN: 0-00-728881-6
"BABY IS CRYING and Crow and Goose and Owl and Swan all think they have the perfect antidote - "I'll take baby flying, that will stop the crying." And as baby floats on wings of love above fields and oceans, he is soothed. . . until each bird in turn crows just a bit too loudly and proudly at his own success and wakes that baby up again. Finally, little Nightingale, who has been struggling to be heard, gets her chance to try a lullaby. O ..."
"The knock-knock joke: a kid classic. So many funny, punny punchlines. It was just screaming for its own book. To do this classic joke justice, we decided to gather fourteen of the best-known and most talented childrenÂs book artists to illustrate their favorite punchlines. The results are wacky, zany, and absolutely hilarious. If you knock on Tomie dePaolaÂs door, beware! Is that a girl or a gorilla? WhoÂs knocking at Saxton Freymann ..."
Every Friday(1st Edition) by DanYaccarino Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2007 by Henry Holt And Co. (Byr) ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7724-7, ISBN: 0-8050-7724-3
"Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. Illus. ; 27 cm. Subjects: Father and child --Juvenile fiction. City and town life --Juvenile fiction. Father and child --Fiction. City and town life --Fiction. Summary: All week long, a boy and his father look forward to their Friday ritual ..."
Julep O'Toole What I Really Want To Do Is Direct (Julep O'Toole) by Trudi Strain Trueit, DanYaccarino Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2007 by Dutton Juvenile ISBN-13: 978-0-525-47781-5, ISBN: 0-525-47781-0
"After botching her audition for the school play, Julep is assigned to work with the crew, but when her good work in this lowly position wins her a promotion to assistant director, she discovers her true calling in the world of entertainment ..."
"Ollie loves to practice on his big bass horn, but he doesn't play very well, so when everyone insists that he practice somewhere else, he takes a boat out to sea, where his music-making saves a ship on a foggy day."
Every Friday (Japanese Edition) by DanYaccarino Hardcover, Published 2007 by Horupu Shuppan/Tsai Fong Books ISBN-13: 978-4-593-50494-7, ISBN: 4-593-50494-5
"Japanese edition of Every Friday. There are few things more rewarding for a child than receiving undivided attention from a parent, and this story is precisely that brand of togetherness, where a father and son's weekly ritual of walking to the local dine In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc."
"Japanese edition of "The Good Little Bad Little Pig." Peter wants a "good little bad little pig," and his parents did not want to get one for him. But Peter tries to convince them that he will take care of his pet by himself; and that the pig will become In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc."