A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man.

Even the roughest, toughest readers will want to turn off their engines and snuggle up with these sweet and soothing stories. Gentle rhyming text and vibrant art make these books surefire bedtime favorites for train- and construction-crazy kids everywhere.

When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place.

In Babel-17, Rydra Wong, a poet and code expert, must break an enemy government's code, but discovers that the code is really a supersophisticated language, while in Empire Star, a simple-minded teenager is entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world.

Jacques Cousteau was the world’s ambassador of the oceans. His popular TV series brought whales, otters, and dolphins right into people’s living rooms. From the first moment he got a glimpse of what lived under the ocean’s waves, Cousteau was hooked. And so he set sail aboard the Calypso to see the sea. He and his team of scientists invented diving equipment and waterproof cameras. They made films and televisions shows and wrote books so they...

Gerald Durrell tells the story of how his childhood love of animals continued into adulthood, prompting him and his wife to establish their own zoo, starting with animals they brought back to England from West Africa.

Concludes the mystery that began with a single mysterious postcard, and reveals the fate of Matthew Sedon and Isabella de Reims and their kinship to Griffin and Sabine.

Lift-the flaps and discover everything that make baby happy in the summer.