Michael Dahl

Swooping, curving lines bring motion into this book about verbs from the "Word Fun Series." The personified frog, high flying acrobats, and soaring spacecraft are among some of the "performers" of the verbs on the colorful pages. The pictures capture the lively verb actions, while the sample sentences demonstrating the how verbs are used. The verbs are all featured in different fonts, sizes, and colors to accentuate their placement in the example...

In order to help kids grasp the purpose of adverbs, the book uses the analogy of how peanut butter goes with jellya clever way to demonstrate how adverbs go with verbs. The clear, brightly colored illustrations cleverly portray a bear diving perfectly and speedily. Athletes are shown as extraordinarily fast, somewhat short, immensely muscular, or very tall. Teachers are sure to find this book very useful when they teach creative writing. Additional...

When Brandon and his frog friends give a pajama party, they have a frightening encounter with a cat.

If you were an adjective, you could be spectacular, brilliant, dazzling, or daring. You could describe how something feels, sounds or behaves.

On a hot summer day, Tina is too afraid to go down a big slide at the swimming pool until some new friends offer their help.

Uses marine animals, such as twelve jellyfish and two seals, to count down from twelve to one.

The Librarian, a superhero who protects the Library of Doom, may have met his match when Atlas, who tried to destroy the library before, escapes from prison and sets out to ruin the library's books, knowing the Librarian will come to the rescue.

When the Librarian returns to his castle after lengthy travels, he finds that someone has stolen his collection of deadly books, and until he can get past a beast the thief left behind and track them down, the world is in great jeopardy.

When a mysterious wind blows the pages of a book stolen long ago from the Library of Doom, it turns them iinto sharp, bat-like objects that fly on their own, and only the Librarian can stop them from attacking a young reader.

When the foul Spellbinder sends a giant scroll to inprison the entire Earth, even the Librarian may be powerless to stop its vast, unrolling page.