One summer night by a small pond, mayflies dart, beetles dive, frogs spring, skunks shuffle, and owls swoop. As a young girl watches, the circle of life unfolds.

The rhythmic, cumulative story and rich, luminous paintings capture the bold beauty of nature. Take a short journey into one backyard and experience all the wonder of the living, breathing world around us....

Poetry writing is a snap with reproducible fill-in poetry frames! Engaging writing prompts spark the imagination and foster confidence as children write different kinds of poetry about themselves. Easy-to-follow directions guide children to develop skills in rhyme, alliteration, and more. A great way to meet the language arts standards! For use with Grades 1–3....

The quirky ways of cats are exquisitely captured in more than thirty original visual poems. From acrobat-flipping to toilet-bowl-sipping, couch-scratching to dog-catching, this insightful collection celebrates the fickle feline in ways that any cat lover will appreciate....

Join the counting fun!

It takes just a poem a day to count down to the 100th day of school!

Keep count with numbers.
Keep count with stars.
Keep count with beans
in a big glass jar.

Keep a long tally
and keep count with pins.
Keep track of how many
days there've been.

Keep count by ones.
Keep count by tens.
Keep count each day
and wait, wait, wait.
In February --
celebrate!...

Clackity-clack, clackity-clack.A skateboard flies over sidewalk squares.

Whoosh pumf, whoosh pumf.Water balloons tossed through the air.

Bizzle-bzzz, bizzle-bzzz. A bumblebee comes zipping by.

Tzooooooooooo bang. Tzooooooooooo bang.Fireworks start for the Fourth of July!

The sounds of summer sizzle and pop in this bouncing,swinging tribute to the best beats of every child's favorite season....

Once upon a time all frogs had beady little eyes . . . until one frog boasted that he could stare longer than anyone. Joung Un Kim's bold colors and stylized artwork are as spirited and amusing as the hilarious competition between Frog and his friends.
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All Rookie Readers actively engage young readers, encouraging language development, building fluency, and promoting independent reading. By targeting a skill, like learning about rhymes, young readers are building fundamental reading skills with the help of fun, lively, colorfully illustrated stories....

Follow a girl and her cat as they walk through the seasons, and note the mathematical concepts illustrated around them.

This unique collection of math-poems addresses the principles of addition, subtraction, division, simple graphs, and more!

Look around and jump into the world of Mathematickles!...

Come explore the hidden shapes and patterns in nature. The peacock's flashy tail is a masterpiece of color and shape. A buzzing beehive is built of tiny hexagons. Even a snake's skin is patterned with diamonds.Poet Betsy Franco and Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins bring geometry to life in this lively, lyrical look at the shapes and patterns that can be found in the most unexpected places....

Zero may be difficult to count, but if you look carefully you can find it everywhere. It's the sound of the stars at night, it's the leaves on a tree in wintertime, and it's the balls left in the bin at recess.

Betsy Franco's poetic, metaphorical text and Shino Arihara's stirring illustrations lead children on an exploration of zero as both a number and an abstract idea....

The sky is quiet.

The yard is quiet.

The creek is quietly gurgling.

Then...tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat! A red-capped woodpecker starts his rap for the day. Next comes nine soft coos from the mourning doves, followed by the chipping of a flurry of sparrows. And on go the birdsongs throughout the day.

Celebrate neighborhood birds in this poetic picture book, and count their sounds backward from ten to one, until all is quiet in the yard again....

He’s a young artist obsessed with myths. But can he fix his own fate? Acclaimed author Betsy Franco and her talented son collaborate on a hip YA novel of "epic" proportions.

Life. Love. Death. Identity. Ovid’s got a lot on his mind, and he pours it all — as confessions, observations, narrative poems, and drawings — into the pages of a notebook. Inspired by his namesake, he wryly records his classmates’ dramas as modern-day Roman mythology. There’s Sophie and Caleb, the Psyche and Cupid of cyber-couples; poetic Paula, who pursues filmmaker Franny like Apollo chasing Daphne; and graphic novelist Duwayne, a Proserpina shuttling between divorced parents. Meanwhile, Ovid hides his own Olympian struggles: his meth addict sister Thena has run off, leaving him with a suffocating home life and a disturbing secret. In her striking YA debut, Betsy Franco introduces an expressive soul with a heartbreakingly authentic voice. Fantastical ink illustrations by her son Tom Franco enhance the intimate tone, delving deep into one intriguing teen’s imagination....