Kate Klimo

Presents a brief overview of the life of the man who wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" and many other beloved children's books.

166 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.760L Lexile

"The world treats Twinky like a dinky dog. The only problem is that Twinky doesn't feel dinky. What can a little dog do to prove the age-old adage that size doesn't matter?"--

Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, culture, and people of this small country in western Africa.

Vignettes from the lives of fifteen horses that in their service to the men who rode them contributed to the flow of history or were historical figures in their own right.

Dragon keepers Jesse and Daisy need help! Emmy, their rapidly growing dragon, has become a real grouch, saying she's missing "something," and the cousins don't have a clue what that something is. Jesse and Daisy go online to ask Professor Andersson, their favorite dragon expert, for help and end up seeing him being kidnapped!The kidnapper is none other than Sadie Huffington, the girlfriend of their enemy, St. George the Dragon Slayer. She has hatched a wicked scheme to use the professor to both find St. George and capture Emmy. Now the dragon keepers and their dragon must storm Sadie's castle and rescue the professor from the witch and her pack of vicious dog-men!In this third fantasy book in the Dragon Keepers series, Kate Klimo introduces readers to a magical library filled with shelf elves and reveals the secrets of the gigantic red book that Jesse and Daisy discovered in The Dragon in the Sock Drawer. She keeps the action and adventure flying while bringing both heart and imagination to this tale of two kids and a dragon, growing up together.The Dragon Keepers series is perfect for kids who crave books about dragons and magic but are caught betwixt and between--too old for Magic Tree House and not yet ready for Eragon and the Inheritance cycle.Visit www.foundadragon.org.From the Hardcover edition.

Presents a collection of poetry and well-known stories including "Snow White", "The Real Princess", "Hansel and Gretel", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and "The Shoemaker and the Elves."

TEN-YEAR-OLD COUSINS Jesse and Daisy have always wanted something magical to happen to them. So it's a wish come true when Jesse's newly found thunder egg hatches, and a helpless, tiny but very loud baby dragon pops out. Soon the two kids are at the dragon's beck-and-call, trying to figure out what to feed her.An Internet search leads them to the library, which leads them back to the Internet, where they find a very strange Web site called "foundadragon.org." It is here that the cousins discover that the dragon's hatching has designated them "Dragon Keepers" and that not only do they have to feed her, but they have to keep her safe from the villainous Saint George who has kept himself alive over centuries by drinking dragons' blood.From the Hardcover edition.

"A firedog from the Maxwell Street fire station tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire"--

Emmy the dragon is maturing and growing too large--and bored--for her quarters, but when she disappears her Keepers, cousins Jesse and Daisy, follow her trail to the Fiery Realm in hopes of bringing her home.

Alone after her village is destroyed by Leatherwings, young Melora and her father's horse, Sky, survive on their own with a herd of wild horses until she finds a new home with a civilization of centaurs.