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No smiling or laughing allowed. Don't even think about it. Jelly means business in this seriously silly interactive picture book follow-up to the bestselling This Book is Dangerous!, a spin-off of the beloved Narwhal and Jelly series. Who messed with the...

A brand-new Penelope Rex book from Ryan T. Higgins, the #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator ofWe Don't Eat Our Classmates and Mother Bruce! Just when she has gotten used to being the only dinosaur in a class full of children, Penelope Rex is...

It's a fun day on the farm with the #1 New York Times bestselling Little Blue Truck and friends--until Toad goes missing! Toad helps prepare for a hayride by loading piles of hay into Little Blue's truck bed. But when they're ready for a ride, Toad is...

The rhyming dust bunnies are back, and this time they'll face off against a hairy and scary foe! Ed, Ned, Ted, and Bob rhyme all the time. Well, actually, Bob doesn't rhyme. But that doesn't stop the friends from having their fun! When a fan blows the bunnies...

Ember the Fire Dragon and Gus the Mushroom Dragon make a new Cloud Dragon friend in the latest installment of this full-color, fantasy adventure series perfect for beginning readers! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn,...

After the royal family of the Kingdom of Bracken is captured by an evil fairy queen, Drake and Bo turn to the Ruby Dragon for help in the latest action-packed installment of this New York Times bestselling series! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of...

Rowley Jefferson is back with another book in his Awesome Friendly series--Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2--which is even more hilariously terrifying than the first! Fans of Greg Heffley and the Diary of a...

The moon base commander has gone missing, and Dash Gibson is on the case in this New York Times bestselling, second mind-boggling mystery of the Moon Base Alpha series from beloved author Stuart Gibbs--now in graphic novel form! There's nowhere to hide on the world's first...

Are you ready for round five of the hilarious guessing game picture book? Discover fascinating facts about colorful animals while guessing if you're looking at a butt or a face! Butt or Face? Volume 5- Rainbow Butts continues the entertaining challenge with a new set of...