Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Brother, Sister, and Cousin Fred are off to a Bear Scout camping trip. But once they are in the woods, the cubs think they see a ghost – or is it just Papa playing a trick? This beloved story is a perfect way to teach children that some practical jokes aren’t very nice.

Undaunted by rumors that the Great Grizzly Forest is haunted, the Bear Scouts head off to earn their wilderness survival badges, but the evening brings a scary surprise.

A bibliography that suggests books for beginner readers is accompanied by subject, title, illustrator, readability level, and series indexes

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. • Offers easy subject access to children's picture books • Features a user-friendly organization • Provides in-depth indexing and full bibliographic detail

The simplicity of children’s picture books—stories told with illustrations and a few well chosen words or none at all—makes them powerful tools for teaching morals and personal integrity. Children follow the story and see the characters’ behaviors on the page and interpret them in the context of their own lives. But unlike many picture books, most children’s lives don’t feature monsters. This collection of new essays explores the societally sanctioned behaviors imparted to children through the use of monsters and supernatural characters. Topics include monsters as instructors, the normalization of strangers or the “other,” fostering gender norms, and therapeutic monsters, among others.

A compendium of three Berenstain Bears Halloween tales includes The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat, The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest and The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin.

Toads, bats, ghosts, witches and pumpkins are some of the characters featured in this resource. Your students will be thrilled with the drama of the Halloween season as they learn critical skills in: brainstorming, phonics, word study, creative writing, research, printing, reading, and math. What's more, they'll learn some of the interesting facts behind the lore associated with this time of year, and some practical tips for keeping safe while trick-or-treating too! 53 activities: Teacher Guide & Answer Key, 84 pages

Presents librarians and teachers with information on more than 1,200 fiction series for children in kindergarten through sixth grade, providing annotations, a listing of titles, important characters, genre, author biography, grade level, and major themes.

A guide to 12,000 titles cataloged under 700 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.

Contains updated and revised sketches on nearly 800 of the most widely read authors and illustrators appearing in Gale's Something about the author series.

An early reader book, illustrated on every page, which covers in several stories topics of interest to early readers and their parents. Some of the topics included are: first visit to the dentist, table manners, and chores.