How to speak animal, Bushel & Peck Books

Find out what to look for, when to watch, scientific explanations, and tips for getting the most out of 2022's night skies in The 2022 Family Astronomical Almanac. This handy guide will make sure your family never miss another celestial event again!

From the Introduction:

Welcome to the night sky! There's nothing quite so humbling and inspiring as spending an evening watching the dance of the heavens. It's even better when you do it with the people you love, which is why publishing this family guide to the events of the night sky is so exciting for us.

How We Chose the Events

When it comes to astronomy, there is a lot to learn and a lot to observe! But in this book, we've picked out the most popular events that are easiest for beginner families and kids to tackle. You'll find lunar eclipses, meteor showers, and planetary conjunctions, plus we've also noted some of the most significant orbital events of the year, like solstices and equinoxes.

Featuring dozens of magical poems handpicked to lull little ones to sleep, this beautiful hardcover book includes beloved works by Emily Dickinson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Blake, Robert Frost, and many more. A terrific introduction to the world's most celebrated poets--and a magical passport to the Land of Nod.

Selected Content:

My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sea of Sunset by Emily Dickinson
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
If I Had But Two Little Wings by Samuel T. Coleridge
A Farewell by Charles Kingsley
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
An excerpt from Pippa Passes by Robert Browning
The Captain's Daughter by James T. Fields
The Owl by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound An excerpt by J. G. Holland

Featuring dozens of festive poems handpicked to celebrate the season, this beautiful hardcover book includes beloved works by Clement Clarke Moore, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and many more.

Selected Content:

Carol An excerpt from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Least of Carols by Sophie Jewett
Lordings, Listen to Our Lay Old Carol
Carol of the Russian Children Russian Folk Song
Carol of the Birds by Bas-Quercy
The Hallowed Time by William Shakespeare
Good King Wenceslas Translated from the Latin by J. M. Neale
The Bells An excerpt by Edgar Allen Poe
Christmas Trees by Robert Frost
winter-time by Robert Louis Stevenson
Music on Christmas Morning by Anne Brontл
The House of Christmas by G. K. Chesterton
Before the Ice Is in the Pools (XLV.) by Emily Dickinson
Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• "Inconceivable!"
• "Is that peg leg a rental?"
• "I do not like green eggs and ham."
• "I'm sure these screws aren't important."
• "Fly, you fools!" and many more.

A delicious introduction to the world's most common (and uncommon) languages, I Have to Poop! delivers smarts and fun for hours on end--no toilet paper required!

From the introduction:

At the onset, let us frankly admit a few things this book is not. It is not a travel guide--unless you regularly find yourself breaking toilet plungers and walking to Mordor on your travels. And though we've done our best, we can't claim it's especially accurate. Translation is a ticklish business even at the best of times, so be generous as you peruse the pages and remember that this particular bookish experience is more about breadth than it is linguistic depth. But with that in mind, there are several other things this book is. It's quirky. It's fat. And it's a thoroughly entertaining introduction to the many languages spoken around the world.

What this title does well is cover the basics of what an atom is and provides clear explanations of how the atom builds into elements, molecules, common substances like sugar, salt, chalk, and soda, even chocolate chip cookies. This book is for the youngest readers and curious minds asking about how life works....This title would work well in an elementary unit about chemistry or physics.--School Library Connection, Recommended

Over there is an atom.

Wait, you don't see it?

That's because are super, super, super, super, super small.

In this boldly illustrated book for beginners, young kids will learn the basics of atoms, molecules, and how everything fits together to build the world they love. Bright, modern art introduces protons, neutrons, electrons, elements, the periodic table, and much, much more! A stunning teaching aid that's as beautiful as it is educational.

Featuring dozens of handpicked verses, this beautiful hardcover gift book about mountains, rivers, and forests includes beloved works by poets like William Wordsworth, Li Po, Emily Dickinson, and many more!

Selected Contents:

In the Mountains on a Summer Day by Li Po
Nature by Henry David Thoreau
The Mountain by Emily Dickinson
The Heavens by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hymn Before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Green Mountains by James Russell Lowell
The River by Sara Teasdale
To a Butterfly by William Wordsworth
Thunder by Joanna Baillie
Sunset in the Golden Gate by William E. Hutchinson
The Inward Morning by Henry David Thoreau
The Whisper of the Earth by Edward J. O'Brien
Trees by Joyce Kilmer
Earth by John Hall Wheelock
The Mosquito by D. H. Lawrence
Birches by Robert Frost

In On This Day in History, kids who love facts and trivia will spend hours poring over 2,675 milestones in sports, music, art, history, politics, and more, all neatly arranged by day of the year and accompanied by over 150 photographs and illustrations. It's fat. It's packed. It's like fifty seasons of Jeopardy! crammed into one handy volume. It's On This Day in History!

Excerpt: JANUARY 3

1987 Music legend Aretha Franklin is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as its first female artist.

1777 General George Washington defeats British forces at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary War.

1870 Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

1959 Alaska becomes the forty-nineth state to join the Union.

1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computers.

1988 Ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky becomes the youngest player to score 700 goals in NHL history.

2018 The world's first bionic hand, with touch sensation for wear outside of a lab, debuts in Rome.

2022 The world's oldest living person, Kane Tanaka, turns 119.

Featuring dozens of handpicked verses about the power and mystery of the sea, this beautiful hardcover gift book includes beloved works by poets like Emily Dickinson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, and many more.

Selected Contents:

Full Fathom Five by William Shakespeare
Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Invocation from a High Cliff by Cale Young Rice
Night by Cora C. Bass
The City in the Sea by Edgar Allen Poe
By the Sea by Emily Dickinson
The Ocean by Jamie Harris Coleman
O Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman
John Marr and Other Sailors by Herman Melville
The West by A. E. Housman
River and Sea by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Captain's Daughter by James T. Fields
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Salutation to the Sea by Heinrich Heine

Featuring dozens of pastoral poems handpicked to celebrate the sights, sounds, and smells of the country garden, this beautiful hardcover gift book includes beloved works by poets like Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Sarojini Naidu, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and many more!

Selected content:

Putting in the Seed by Robert Frost
A Shower by Rowland Thirlmere
To a New Sundial by Violet Fane
The Joy of the Springtime by Sarojini Naidu
"Perhaps You'd Like to Buy a Flower?" by Emily Dickinson
The Magnolia by Josй Santos Chocano
The End of Summer by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Old-Fashioned Garden by John Russell Hayes
In My Mother's Garden by Margaret Widdemer
To a Weed by Gertrude Hall
Heart's Garden by Norreys Jephson O'Conor
Shade by Theodosia Garrison
In an Old Garden by Madison Cawein
The Garden of Dreams by Bliss Carman