Michael Emberley

"A girl transforms a cafe into a train by making train noises with words"--

"Ever wonder how your text message gets from your phone to your friend's phone? You type it, hit send, and boom -- the text appears on your friend's phone just moments later. But how?! From your brain to your fingers to your phone, once you hit send, off your message goes on a journey that seems impossibly far: traveling through the air, underground, under oceans, and even through mountains, in seconds. Turns out texts are big on adventure, and this...

Eight favorite fairy tales in very short tellings, told in two voices to allow reading together.

Classic Mother Goose rhymes in color-coded typography let young children read along with an adult.

A father recalls his young daughter's first reactions to her new baby brother.

Using rhyme, rhythm and repetition, the scary text invites young children to read along with an adult. Together the adult's text and the child's responsive text create stories with a scary theme.

"Priscilla is obsessed with gorillas. But when her ape-like behavior gets her sent to the Thinking Corner, Priscilla wonders if she is really channeling her inner gorilla, or just being a troublemaker"--