Barney is a peddler who drives his horse-drawn wagon through the city streets selling potatoes, onions and apples and greeting the neighbors and letting the children climb on his...

Two young bats, Fink and Fang, are trying to go to sleep, but nothing's working. One tries telling the other a scary bat story about a Swamp Owl. Doesn't...

Samantha Kingston is one of the popular elite at her high school, a position that she fought her way up the social ladder to get. Fully equipped...

A new twist on Cinderella: When Bella's mother dies, her bitter father hands her off to the family of the village blacksmith. She lives happily with her family, having...

Halloween is long past and the Berenstain Bear family is looking forward to Thanksgiving and the Big Pumpkin Contest. Papa Bear has a great big pumpkin out in his...

This past holiday season I received an email from a wonderful teacher who shared her passion for books and children with me and thanked me for abookandahug. It...

The Allie Finkle series continues.

At the Bayside Preparatory School, otherwise known as "Blanche de Blaine's Academy for Slobs, Noodleheads, Nutters and the Madly Talented, Bettina is fighting an uphill battle against artistic limitations....

Oh, what fun! "Hen has some eggs." But, all of these eggs are not created equal because one of them is really, really big and the others...

This little rhyming Rookie Reader contains 39 words and they are all about tractors and cranes and other construction machines and the work that they do. If you have...