Arthur is looking forward to having his friend the Brain spend an entire weekend at his house, but then the Brain shows up and starts acting a little too much like the perfect family member.

The Brain stays overnight at Arthurżs house and Arthur worries his family likes the Brain too much.

A new chapter book featuring Arthur and his friends for fans ready to read on their own. Illustrated in black-and-white

One of a series of picture-books featuring Arthur the aardvark. His parents are going to have another baby, and Arthur's gang have warned him about the sleepless nights, endless baby-sitting, smelly nappies and gooey baby-talk. The baby might even be like his bossy little sister, D.W.

Arthur is looking forward to having his friend and Brain spend and entire weekend at his house, but then the Brain shows up and starts acting a little to much like the perfect family member.

Milton and Morris--two orphaned immigrant brothers in New York--brave their way in the New World, taking jobs as trapeze artists, fruit peddlers, and tailors, and discover life's bitter realities.

Three new chapter books feature Arthur and his friends for fans ready to read on their own. Each book features longer Arthur Adventures at a third-grade reading level and has loads of kid appeal. Arthur is in top form as he tries to figure out who Muffy's secret admirer is, enters a poetry contest with all his friends, and attempts to rein in Buster's ego when he becomes a local hero. Arthur fans will want to read and collect all of these new chapter books!

ARTHUR'S NEW BABY BOOK Arthur remembers D. W. as a baby and teaches her how she can be a helpful and loving big sister to Baby kate. With nursery rhymes to sing and special ABC flaps to flip to to make learning the alphabet easy, Arthur shows you that being a big brother or sister is fun!

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality. This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident. A mother who clings obsessively to religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past. Four brothers who come of age during the seismic upheavals of the sixties and who each choose their own way to deal with what the world has become. By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, and beautifully written throughout, The Brothers K is one of the finest chronicles of our lives in many years. Praise for The Brothers K “The pages of The Brothers K sparkle.”—The New York Times Book Review “Duncan is a wonderfully engaging writer.”—Los Angeles Times “This ambitious book succeeds on almost every level and every page.”—USA Today “Duncan’s prose is a blend of lyrical rhapsody, sassy hyperbole and all-American vernacular.”—San Francisco Chronicle “The Brothers K affords the . . . deep pleasures of novels that exhaustively create, and alter, complex worlds. . . . One always senses an enthusiastic and abundantly talented and versatile writer at work.”—The Washington Post Book World “Duncan . . . tells the larger story of an entire popular culture struggling to redefine itself—something he does with the comic excitement and depth of feeling one expects from Tom Robbins.”—Chicago Tribune

A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore. Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left in twenty years, the neighborhood had degentrified, and their house was a fortress of junk: in an attempt to preserve the past, Homer and Langley held on to everything they touched. The scandal of Homer's discovery, the story of his life, and the search for Langley, who was missing at the time, rocked the city; the story was on the front page of every newspaper for weeks. A quintessential New York story of quintessential New York characters, Ghosty Men is a perfect fit for Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series.