Chris L. Demarest

Rhyming text and illustrations show how the United States Coast Guard uses aircraft and a rescue swimmer to respond to a call for help.

Rhyming text introduces the equipment and work of a team of fire fighters as they battle a blaze caused by a spark from a train.

Rhyming text and illustrations depict the sights and sounds of a train ride.

Arlington recounts the complicated history of one of the nation's most famous and most-visited national monuments and its fascinating daily life. Carefully researched and documented, Chris Demarest's watercolor paintings capture the spirit and pathos of the last resting place of more than 300,000 Americans who have served their country.

Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairytales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliantly funny author of the adult novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as of the hilarious middle–grade series, The Hamlet Chronicles. Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy– tales, could be twisted...

Characters discuss what they know about good manners and how they will have them someday, but for now they are "just kids."

Lateef, a poor young boy living in a village in western Nigeria, works hard so he can rent a bicycle and ride with the other boys.

On April 1, Will tells his friends how he once saw a bike-riding elephant who sang through his trunk while juggling six bags of junk.