Michael Emberley

A girl tries and tries again to learn to ride a bicycle and all her friends provide words of encouragement.

"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...

Uses bird and bee cartoon characters to present straightforward explanations of topics related to sexual development, love, reproduction, adoption, sexually transmitted diseases, and more.

Provides patterns for drawings of the longisquama, protoceratops, woolly mammoth, and nine other prehistoric animals, based on the evidence of fossil remains.

Ruby the mouse investigates the possibility of burglars in the upstairs apartment, but finds some generous but overwhelming new neighbors instead.

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

A mother tells her child about its first day of life from the moment of birth through the end of the birth day.

Introduces human sexuality, describes the changes brought about by puberty, and discusses sexual abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, and pregnancy.

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.

A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.