When Ernie the elephant loses his favorite teddy bear, he's distressed, so he begins searching the entire house. With the help of Martin the mouse, he retraces his steps more carefully after failing to find Plum on his own.

Are your kids afraid of the dark? Do they have favorite toys? When Ernie the Elephant loses his favorite teddy bear, he is very distressed and begins searching the entire house, overturning tables and furniture, with no luck. How will he be able to sleep without Plum the teddy bear? Then, with the help of Martin the Mouse, he retraces his steps more carefully around his home. Will they be able to find Plum, or will Ernie have to face the dark tonight alone? Ernie the Elephant and the Teddy Bear is a delightful children's story set in rhyming pattern. Your child will delight in Ernie and his family and connect with him as he searches for his beloved bear. Listen now for the perfect bedtime story!

Robbie Raines is an inquisitive eleven-year-old girl with a deep love of history and the strange ability to see visions populated by famous figures. When shes forced to spend her summer days with her mysterious Aunt Enna in a dilapidated, horror-movie-scary old house, she discovers a dark family secret. A local handyman was found dead in the basement years ago, and his death was never solved. Was it an accident? Or did her aunt commit a cold-blooded murder? Armed with her intense curiosity, a vast knowledge of historical trivia, and her helpful visions, Robbie sets out to solve the decade-old case. With the aid of a retired detective named Granger, and her best pal, Stacie, Robbie discovers clues long missed by the police and pieces together what really happened in her aunts shadowy stairway.

The world’s one-and-only PEZ historian dispenses fun facts on the candy’s evolution from smoking substitute to childhood treat to pop culture collectible. PEZ is an American classic and a staple of many childhood memories. Yet it originated in Austria, where PEZ began in 1927 as compressed peppermint tablets marketed as an alternative to smoking. Upon arrival in the United States in 1952, PEZ quickly took a new direction, adding fruit flavors and three-dimensional character heads to top the dispensers. Now produced in Orange, Connecticut, the iconic PEZ brand is available in over eighty countries, selling more than sixty-five million dispensers annually and inspiring collectors and fans worldwide. Join the world’s first and only official PEZ historian, Shawn Peterson, on a journey of sweet proportions for an inside look at the world’s most cherished interactive candy. Includes photos

This comprehensive annual volume covers the complete field of antiques and collectibles. Each of more than 65,000 items, covering every major category of collecting, is accurately and intricately described in color, size, markings and material allowing readers to easily identify their particular piece. Photos and sketches help readers further research their collections.

Compiled from the highly regarded "Antique Trader Weekly", this comprehensive volume covers every major category of collecting, from rare pottery and mid-sixteenth furniture to space collectibles and Disney memorabilia--all in an easy-to-read, A to Z format. 1,500 photos.

Spinning the Child examines music for children on records, radio and television by assessing how ideals of entertainment, education, ‘the child’ and ‘the family’ have been communicated through folk music, the BBC’s children’s radio broadcasting, the children’s songs of Woody Guthrie, Sesame Street, The Muppet Show and Bagpuss, the contemporary children’s music industry and other case studies. The book provides the first sustained critical overview of recorded music for children, its production and dissemination. The music, lyrics and sonics of hundreds of recorded songs are analysed with reference to their specific social, historical and technological contexts. The chapters expose the attitudes, morals and desires that adults have communicated both to and about the child through the music that has been created and compiled for children. The musical representations of age, race, class and gender reveal how recordings have both reflected and shaped transformations in discourses of childhood. This book is recommended for scholars in the sociology of childhood, the sociology of music, ethnomusicology, music education, popular musicology, children’s media and related fields. Spinning the Child’s emphasis on the analysis of musical, lyrical and sonic texts in specific contexts suggests its value as both a teaching and research resource.

Splish-splash, guess who's taking a bath? It's Little Ernie, and he's having a bubbly time getting clean with his rubber duckie and toy boats!