Joan Holub

Medusa refuses to care for her hair, her long locks getting knottier and dirtier with each passing page. Her hair rebellion elicits frozen expressions of shock from her family, but nothing will convince Medusa to brush. Only her hairdresser approaches Medusa with bravery and a blade, successfully solving the problem . . . with a short haircut! All are pleased with this drastic yet adorable solution. Leslie Patricelli's depictions of this physical...

Award-winning children's author Joan Holub has penned over 70 books for young audiences in her decades-spanning career. In Zero the Hero, Holub offers a humorous and lighthearted look at one of math's most overlooked, yet essential, figures - the number zero. All the other numbers scoff at Zero's value, but as soon as one of them gets into trouble, guess who lands on the scene to save the day!

"A Grimmtastic girl named Cinderella is starting her first week at Grimm Academy on the wrong foot. Cinda's totally evil stepsisters are out to make her life miserable. The Steps tease Cinda, give her terrible advice about life at the academy, and even make her look bad in front of her new friends, Red, Snow, and Rapunzel! But when Cinda overhears the Steps plotting a villainous deed that could ruin Prince Awesome's ball, Cinda, her new friends, and...

Highlights the life and accomplishments of the famous puppeteer and creator of the Muppets.

The perfect biography to "bite into" at the start of a new school year! Children are sure to be fascinated by the eccentric and legendary Johnny Appleseed, a man who is best known for bringing apple trees to the midwest. Over John Chapman’s lifetime, he saw the country grow and start to spread westward. Traveling alone— in bare feet and sporting a pot on his head!—Johnny left his own special mark planting orchards that helped nourish new communities....

Two brothers get two giant hissing cockroaches as pets and then must figure out a way to deal with the resulting population explosion.

Le temps des Jeux Olympiques annuels est arrivé à l'Académie du mont Olympe, et les quatre déesses ne sont pas contentes, plus particulièrement Artémis. Bien qu'elle soit plus douée aux sports que la plupart des jeunes dieux, elle ne peut pas participer aux jeux parce qu'ils s'adressent aux garçons seulement. Pas juste! Et pour couronner le tout, certains des compétiteurs sont de belliqueux géants, elle se sent attirée par un jeune mortel...

Two girls move from Missouri to Oregon - one in 1846 and one in 2011. One trip takes five months and the other five days. One trip is in a covered wagon, the other in a car. But, both girls will miss their old homes and worry about the long trip. Both girls stop at well-known landmarks and travel the Rocky Mountains. And, as each girl reaches her new home, she finds her new room and her new friends. Wagons Ho! is a unique look at both history and...

In 1782, when Luke Howard was ten, he began keeping a weather journal to describe what he saw in the sky-he especially loved to watch the clouds. As an adult, Luke wanted to classify clouds, though many others had failed at this.