Chris Van Dusen
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on a real incident that occurred in the island town of Vinalhaven, Maine, this rhyming story recounts what happens when a really big flatbed truck carrying a mysterious, covered load across a small island gets stuck on a tight curve and blocks traffic in both directions
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged): illustrations; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Randy Riley is a science genius who loves baseball, but isn't very good at it. Riley needs to use both his interests to save his town from a giant fireball hurtling toward earth.
Author
Series
Mr. Magee books volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While spending the day in their boat on the sea, Mr. Magee and his dog get caught up in wacky adventures with a playful pod of whales.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Language
English
Description
Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse -- until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good?
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1st ed.
Fountas & Pinnell
L
Physical Desc
70 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Persuaded by the word "treating" to dress up as a princess for Halloween, Mercy the pig's trick-or-treat outing has some very unexpected results.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 3
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Language
English
Description
Baby Lincoln wants to get away from her sister and embark on a journey.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 4
Fountas & Pinnell
N
Language
English
Description
"When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, Eugenia wants nothing to do with it, but her plan to rid herself of the troublesome package leads to a surprising discovery"--
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door--a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the classroom,...
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Language
English
Description
Fearless Francine Poulet is proud to carry on her family's legacy as Gizzford County's animal control officer. When Francine runs into a screaming raccoon that might be a ghost, she must find a way to face her fears and capture the creature before it wreaks further havoc on Deckawoo Drive.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
When a pig named Mercy arrives at the Watsons' front door, she brings love and chaos to their lives.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
97 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A constant worrier, Franklin Endicott earns a fresh cause for alarm when he accompanies Eugenia Lincoln to her favorite thrift shop and leaves with a mystery to solve.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When Stella gets the sudden idea to go caroling, she has a little trouble getting someone to join her. Her brother, Frank, is not good at spontaneity. The Watsons are very involved in a precarious fruitcake attempt (but happy to send their pig, Mercy, out for the occasion). Eugenia Lincoln declines, a bit rudely, to accompany on her accordion, and Horace Broom is too busy studying planetary movement. Will Stella need to sing by herself--with enthusiastic...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
George Washington crossed the Delaware in the dead of night. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. And President William Howard Taft, a man of great stature - well, he got stuck in a bathtub. Now how did he get unstuck? Author Mac Barnett and illustrator Chris Van Dusen bring their full comedic weight to this legendary story, imagining a parade of clueless cabinet members advising the exasperated president, leading up to a hugely satisfying, hilarious...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text explain some of the things that different monsters do before they go to sleep.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1-3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
86 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mr. and Mrs. Watson and their pig Mercy take in a movie at the Bijou Drive-In, mayhem ensues after Mercy smells the enticing scent of hot buttered popcorn.