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Hours of family-friendly fun with 30 stories starring a favorite storybook character. The two-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning series on PBS KIDS follows George as he creates havoc at the zoo, visits a doctor's office, zooms into roller skate infamy and even flies a rocket. Kids w...

This award-winning series brings to life 26 of the most magical classic fairy tales of all time, now digitally remastered.

George knows that a curious monkey needs to get outside and explore! From running the bases at a ballgame to exploring secret underground tunnels, there are friends and adventures around every corner. Hit a home run with your favorite monkey.

What's George's favorite place to go for adventure? The library! George loves to read, because in books you can be a pirate, a spaceman, even a robot! Or learn about photography, strange animals and how to make it snow. What better place for the world's most curious monkey?

George discovers the adventures that are waiting for him and his friends during the night.

"The Kitchen Pantry Scientist : Ecology for Kids features biographies of 25 leading ecologists, past and present, accompanied by accessible and engaging experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of ecology alive"-- Provided by publisher.

The Sundance Kid is the frontier's fastest gun. His partner, Butch Cassidy is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, put on new duds, and...

First, George accidentally frees some of the animals at the zoo. Then, George discovers that different animals make different tracks. Next, George learns that all living things behave in different ways. Then, George designs and builds the perfect pigeon perch. Next, George must g...

Presents seven portraits of widely known--but not well understood--Christian men, each of whom uniquely showcases a commitment to live by certain virtues in the truth of the gospel.

Presented by The Academy of American Poets, Committed to Memory is the essential poetry collection for every home library -- a gathering of the world's best-loved poems, chosen specifically for memorization. These poems carry on a timeless tradition kept alive not in libraries bu...

This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Ma...

"For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us--the royal family's obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible, often by delegating their paren...

Prince charming, dragon slayer, mischievous prankster. More often than not, these are the role-models boys encounter in the books they read at home and at school. As a boy, there is an assumption that you will conform to a stereotypical idea of masculinity. But what if you're the...

This book is an identification guide to the species of trees and shrubs mentioned in the title that occur in Saskatchewan.

"Brief and humorous biographies of fascinating people"--Provided by publisher.

Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys over land and sea captivated audiences and gave them a glimpse into countries, cities and cultures like never before. Tales include Robert Byron's ...

"Fifty thinkers who shaped the modern world" profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political and social theorists as well as spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in. It offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a re-evaluation...

""We are the apes who tell stories," writes William Bernstein. "And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts." As Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The Delusions of Crowds, throughout human his...