by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Do you like to play the game of I Spy? Here’s a delightful little book that’s perfect for the younger spy. First they show you pictures of three objects and then on the facing page you look for those objects that are now mixed into a bigger picture. You...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Humor
2006 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book Cocoa is a horse with an appetite for yummy things to eat including sometimes his own hat. Kate is a cowgirl who is ready to ride the range. You are the lucky person who is about to meet them and hear them try to work...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Humor
It’s fall and Cowgirl Kate has to start school. Cocoa wants to go with her so he chases the bus. All the kids make fun of him and sing ‘Mary had a little lamb.’ Then, Kate comes home with a new friend and Cocoa feels heartsick. The friends are going...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Humor
Leave it to Cocoa, horse of renown, to eschew the horseshoes and demand cowboy boots instead. Cowgirl Kate can always find a way to explain things to Cocoa in just the right way and she needs her talent here as Cocoa comes up with some games of his own to play. Fun as...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Humor
Ah, beware of the custodian, Mr. Fester Smudge, who lurks somewhere in the basement of the school along with his dragon. Yikes. This man is a walking monster menace. He may electrocute you, tie you to the top of the flag pole and he certainly isn’t going to be...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Humor
It’s the third day of school and he’s been sent to the principal’s office. This is no ordinary principal. Rumor has it she uses the thin kids for bookmarks-‘I’m too young to be a bookmark.’ Other guys who’ve been sent down...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Ahh, this is the perfect book for frustrated mothers everywhere. Wendell has been sent to his room to clean up the mess. When he arrives, a large pig is already there and ready to join in the fun. Together, Wendell and Pig have the time of their lives playing and...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Non-Fiction
The Cat in the Hat explores the many kinds of birds. This is a wonderful book for young readers who like to ‘know’ facts and in this case, facts about birds.
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Non-Fiction
The Cat in the Hat is loading up his Crocodile Car and heading off to find reptiles, ‘wherever they are.’ What is a reptile? Can you name some? There are all kinds of lizards and plenty of snakes. Some you need to stay really far away from but some are...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Non-Fiction
This time the Cat in the Hat is taking us deep inside a rain forest. What will we find there? Howler monkeys? Red-eyed tree frogs? Do you know the four layers of a rain forest? Use your sharp eyes to see if you can find the six hidden objects on the camouflage page....
