Drew Bialko grew up in a small town in western Pennsylvania obsessed with sports, comic books, cartoons, and video games. Drew always had a passion for children's literature but it wasn't until he started reading books to his son that he decided to create his own children's stories. So, with a lot of inspiration from his son, and even more support from his wife, Drew's first children's book "Have You Ever Seen a Selfish?" was brought to life. Drew...

Rhyming text asks the reader if certain unusual--and unpleasant--creatures live nearby.

Discover how animals use body adaptations to groom themselves, protect their eyes, attract a mate and more!

Explores the alphabet and animals through their collective nouns, including a covey of quails, a string of ponies, and a murder of crows.

"Mab is the "normal" one, never mind Bourne Memorial High School has banned that term, and besides, she's a stickler for words and definitions and knows normal isn't normal in Bourne. Monday is a stickler for everything else. She doesn't like abbreviations, contractions, lies, typos, or wearing green clothes on yellow days. When the Bourne library shut down--funds desperately needed elsewhere--she stashed the books under her bed, behind the sofa,...

Seeing Flowers is a visual feast that gloriously highlights 343 popular garden flowers. Using a unique photo process that includes stitching together large macro photographs, Robert Llewellyn reveals details that few have ever seen: the amazing architecture of stamens and pistils; the subtle shadings on a petal; the secret recesses of nectar tubes. Teri Dunn Chace's lyrical and illuminating essays complement these images and offer insights on each...

“A wedding is the beginning of the end.” —Lochlan Blaine. Look, I’ve seen firsthand what marriage does to a man. I’m not interested. You want to take the leap? Fine. But have the decency to elope. Leave me out of it. And then I see her. The happily-ever-after-loving bridesmaid at the wedding I couldn’t get out of. This flower-wielding bombshell is all wrong for me. But one night together is enough to convince me that she could be the answer...

Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.