Joe Mathieu

A teacher makes her students laugh when she mixes up words, saying "goats" instead of "coats" and "poodles" when she means "puddles."

A dictionary of the vocabulary of very young children presenting for each word a definition, a sentence using the word, and an illustration of the sentence featuring Sesame Street characters.

Rhyming text and illustrations briefly point out what animals have teeth, their uses, and how to care for them.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text show that while the body parts of various human and Muppet characters may look different, they have similar uses.

Silly teacher Mrs. Millie gets her words wrong when the class goes on a field trip to a pumpkin patch.

Onboard a vessel that would make Jacques Cousteau green with envy, the Cat and Co. take to the high seas in search of whales, dolphins, and porpoises-those aquatic mammals known as cetaceans. While learning how cetaceans stay warm without hair, have teeth or baleen, swim in troops, spyhop, spin, breach, and see via ecolocation, kids are introduced to almost 20 different species-including sperm, right, humpback, and blue whales; Gulf, spectacled, and...

A five-year-old boy searches high and low for his missing dinosaur, and the people he asks for help do not believe such a creature actually exists.

The Cat in the Hat explains the origins of various holidays throughout the year, some well-known and some lesser-known, as well as some of the rituals associated with each.

Introduces beginning readers to a variety of shark species from the dwarf lantern and the whale shark to the great white and the goblin, sharing numerous facts about their characteristics and behaviors.

Although each child is making a mess of his or her own, they all deny responsibility for the mud being tracked through the house.