The Great Snuggle Puss is a Classic American story about a pet cat who goes on vacation with his family to Key West, Florida and somehow gets separated from them and lost. Snuggle Puss wanders around the town and finally gets found and taken to the home of a kind man who happens to be a professional cat trainer. From The Hemingway House to Mallory Square, Snuggle Puss starts an adventure that teaches us some thought-provoking lessons. The tale is written in rhyme and beautifully illustrated. Here’s a small section that will whet your appetite. A handsome young cat, quite perplexed you might say, Found himself in Key West looking every which way He was soaked to the skin, tired, hungry and cold, Somehow lost his owners, or so we’ve been told. Snuggle Puss the Cat, born and raised way up North, In the Southernmost town on the date of June the fourth. It rained that whole day still he wandered around Looking here, looking there, with the hopes he’d be found. But alas, in the stars. It was yet meant to be. Just what happened to Snuggle Puss is quite a story, you’ll see!

With the publication of his Ok, Intriguing: Hell Yeah! Awesomenessous, Australian comedian David Tieck propelled himself face-first into the colorful realms of the less-trodden segments of existence with a seemingly simple mission to improve every aspect of its readers lives. (Hes just that kind of guy.) Because David is a man of his word, your life will now be overflowing with love, happiness, business opportunities, favorite places to buy plastic owls, and secrets to avoiding the hot new trend in pets. Youll even have a better sense of touch, the forgotten sense. (Youre welcome.) You are cordially encouraged to enter Davids world, one that is generously populated by baffling questions, captivating oddities, absurd downright truths, and unobserved actualities. He boils it all down in hilarious, short comic essays about lifes big questions: Whats the coolest thing to go to jail for? Why is carpet so damn awesome? How do you complete a sex goal? Who is the King of Roofs anyway? What the hell are the ants up to? Does your cannon really need scrubbing? Why is that rainbow so sad? Read this bookyou deserve it. Hell, yeah./

As his parents fight to keep their diner open, Will Parrish's terrible vacation at his grandmother's beach house is enlivened by the discovery of a genie in an old copy of "the Arabian Nights."

Affirmations for children.

NIGHT The town of Yocum Valley is in for the longest, darkest night it has ever known. A night that will make some doubt their sanity, and others fear for their lives. A night when the heinous curse of its tainted ancestry will rise, in the form of a living horror, to seek savage vengeance…. WINTER The beast will stalk during the coldest, cruelest winter on record, in a place that is frozen, snowbound … and trapped at the mercy of something unspeakable, with a taste for human flesh and a thirst for human blood…. DEATH It’s waiting in the cold and dark to strike, again and again. And the terrified, disbelieving citizens are about to find themselves under siege—by something partly human partly animal … and completely deadly.

Designed to introduce children to a wide range of social activities and relationships as well as general life skills.

Filled with inspiring stories and photographs, this heartfelt tribute to the pit bull celebrates one of America’s most popular yet misunderstood dogs. Perhaps more than any other breed, the pit bull has been dogged by negative stereotypes. In truth, pit bulls are innately wonderful family pets, as capable of love and good deeds as any other type of dog. Setting the record straight, Ken Foster sings the praises of pit bulls in I’m a Good Dog, a gorgeously illustrated, tenderly written tribute to this most misunderstood of canines. Founder of the Sula Foundation, which promotes responsible pit bull ownership in New Orleans, and the author of two acclaimed books about abandoned dogs, Foster has made it his mission to bring overlooked canines into the limelight. I’m a Good Dog traces the fascinating history of this particularly maligned breed. A century ago, the pit bull was considered a family dog, featured in family photos and trusted as loving companions for children. More recently, pit bulls have been portrayed by the media as stereotypes of everything they are not. Foster shatters that reputation through moving profiles of pit bulls that serve as therapy dogs, athletic heroes, search-and-rescue dogs, and educators, not to mention as loving pets. Foster also profiles many pit bull lovers, from Helen Keller and Dr. Seuss to actor Todd Cerveris, who took his pit bull on tour with him for the musical Spring Awakening. Proving that there’s much to love and nothing to fear, I’m a Good Dog restores the pit bull to its rightful place as friend, family member, athlete and entertainer.

With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem – loneliness. Lovingly and with delightful humour, Barbara Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and – perhaps most keenly felt – their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them. Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. Its world is both extraordinary and familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.