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Mac Barnett
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To escape a burning building, Zapfino must confront the fears that forced him out of the circus.
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Leo is a friendly house ghost–but when a family moves into his house, and tries to get rid of him, he leaves and roams the city looking for a friend.
Retired private detective and current seventh-grader Steve Brixton has a new career: taking out the garbage on Wednesdays for five bucks a week. But it’s hard to leave the old…
Mac Barnett,Jory John
The rollicking finale to the New York Times -bestselling series will settle once and for all who–between quick wits and powerful fists–will have the last laugh. Illustrations.ns.
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Kids’ book heavy-hitters have a whole new picture book take on a favourite children’s game.
Leo is a friendly house ghost - but when a family moves into his house, and tries to get rid of him, he leaves and roams the city looking for…
Mac, the author, fires Adam, the illustrator, over their artistic differences about Chloe, the main character of their book, until Mac realizes both of their talents are needed and they…
The overly ambitious little girl from Oh No! is back for more. But this time, she doesn’t have a humongous problem, she has an EPIC crisis on her hands: a…
The Lady gives Jack a gift. It’s a lab kit! Jack goes into the shed to experiment and doesn’t come out until he’s made another Jack and another Jack and…
When Jack finds himself on the naughty list, he worries that Santa will bring him coal. But Jack wants presents-lots of them. Will Jack be able to prove to Santa…
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Before Mac Barnett was an author, he was a kid. And while he was a kid, he was a spy. The precious Crown Jewels have been stolen, and there’s only…
A blue whale is longer than thirty dogs lined up nose to tail. Its tongue weighs as much as four hundred cats. Blue whales make terrible pets….Just ask Billy Twitters.
Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip clop across the bridge to get…
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Quand les tresors de la reine d'Angleterre sont subtilises d'une piece verrouillee, les talents d'espion de Mac sont mis a l'epreuve. Comment le voleur s'est-il…
New York Times bestselling Mac Barnett and Caldecott Honor award-winning illustrator Shawn Harris turn their massively popular The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza live cartoon into an action-packed and…
Award-winning creators Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris are back with the second volume in the bestselling The First Cat in Space graphic novel series! Secret tales of woe, hilarious new…
When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child’s nighttime wonderings.
With perfect pacing, a New York Times -bestselling team digs down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor. Sam and Dave are on a mission to find something spectacular…
With a nod to traditional fables and a wink to the reader, the award-winning creators of Extra Yarn and Triangle offer a story of cooperation and creative cuisine about a…
Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks. –Provided by publisher.
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With the second story in a trilogy of tales about Triangle, Square, and Circle, multi-award-winning, New York Times -bestselling duo Barnett and Klassen nudge readers toward a more well-rounded way…
With their usual pitch-perfect pacing and subtle, sharp wit, the multi-award-winning, New York Times -bestselling duo (Caldecott Honor-winning Extra Yarn ) delivers the final wry and resonant tale about Triangle…
A impish rabbit takes a purse–and a lipstick–from a grey-haired lady and uses them and Rex, a dog, to get into mischief.
Jack the rabbit serves as bat boy and Rex the dog helps in left field during a baseball game between the Lady City Ladies and the Big City Brats.
When the Lady is mad at Jack, she decides to send him and Rex on a one-way trip into outer space, and while she enjoys some peace and quiet, Jack…
Jack and the Lady take the train West to visit a dude ranch. One night, there’s a bank robbery next door, and Jack is pegged as the bandit. But thanks…
From New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett and Geisel Award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli, an uproarious early reader series about a mischievous rabbit, a cranky old lady, and a lovable…
Mac Barnett,Jon Klassen
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself. Full color.
We have so many places to be! Places to be loud and lovely and scared and jubilant.With an elegant simplicity reminiscent of the classics, this picture book celebrates all our…
Barnett, the acclaimed bestselling author of Extra Yarn, and award-winning illustrator Pizzoli deliver a new picture book that celebrates the many tender, madcap ways that love is expressed. Full color.
Award-winning, bestselling author Barnett and acclaimed illustrator Jacoby deliver an exceptional picture book biography of the legendary author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and other beloved children’s classics, that’s…
Follow a magnificent polar bear through a fantastic world of snow and shockingly blue sea. Over the ice, through the water, past Arctic animals and even a human…where is he…
Mac B. is back the newest installment of this totally smart and sidesplittingly funny new seriesEand this time, a new enemy is after the Crown Jewels! Will Mac solve this…
There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac…
England is in trouble! A priceless violin has been stolen, and there’s only one person who can help: Mac B., kid spy. Mac’s adventure takes him on a top-secret museum…
The book you are holding is called The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The story was first written down in Norway almost 200 years ago. It has been told, over and…
This adventure-filled box set by New York Times bestselling author, Mac Barnett, includes the first four action-packed books of the Mac B., Kid Spy series and an exclusive poster!
Before…
Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up…When a woeful mouse is swallowed up by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not alone: a…
Curious minds are rewarded with curious answers in a fantastical bedtime book by Mac Barnett and Isabelle Arsenault.
The third installment in the bestselling Terrible Two series'AEinow in paperback
When an overambitious little girl builds a humongous robot for the science fair, she fully expects to win first place. What she doesn’t expect is the chaos that follows. Full…
You may think you know how this book was made, but you don’t. Sure, the author wrote many drafts, and the illustrator took a long time creating the art, but…
Kids will giggle as they count all the animals that have frightened the monkeys off the pages. Full of fun reader interactions and keeps readers guessing until the very last…
A beautiful fable about the nature of love, from beloved, award-winning picture book creators Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis.
E. B. White Read-Aloud winner Mac Barnett celebrates individuality in a story told with tenderness and subtlety. It’s John’s big day at school today - a performance for Sharing Gifts…
E. B. White Read-Aloud winner Mac Barnett celebrates individuality in a story told with tenderness and subtlety.
It’s John’s big day at school today-a performance for Sharing Gifts time. His…