A colourfully illustrated variety of adventure stories and rhymes, this book will be treasured by children. It also provides an introduction to the alphabet in a fun and exciting way.

Adventures of Samara and Alphabet series is written to help children imagine the impossible and find ways to achieve it. On their many adventures together, Samara and Alphabet explore different professions and use their imagination to find solutions to problems. In 'The first magic trick', Alphabet, the elephant, asks Samara to turn him blue in colour. This requires Samara to be an artist. Does she figure out how to make Alphabet change colour? Read to find out what the two friends discover about problem solving and each other! This book is part of a series. Other books in this series include: Adventures of Samara and Alphabet: Saving the birds What parents have to say about 'Adventures of Samara and Alphabet: The first magic trick': "One of the first books that I read to my son and it has always been a hit from baby to toddler - I love the creativity & he especially loves the page about all the different jobs little Samara can do! Love from London!" - Vaithegi Vasanthakumar "My daughter Prajvee loves listening to the books written by Priyanka. They are simple and easy for kids to understand. They take them on a ride into an imaginative world which stories should typically do irrespective of age. Prajvee's favourite is 'Samara and Alphabet: The First Magic Trick', it highlights the innocence of kids wanting to be someone new every day." - Palak Mehta "My daughter and I absolutely love Samara and Alphabet.... What lovely illustrations and simple innocent stories. The best part is it's setting in the urban context, which makes it so real and relatable" - Dr. Poonam Bajaj "Today, while reading Samara and Alphabet, my daughter Ava told me, "Samara is sooo sweet because she is the elephant's friend". I love listening to her try to read the book. She will tell the elephant, "Don't worry, you are special". All to say, my child thinks Samara and Alphabet is a great book. Can't wait to get more of Priyanka's books!" - Ayesha Dinshaw

This master class in writing children’s and young adult novels will teach you everything you need to know to write and publish a great book. The best children’s and young adult novels take readers on wonderful outward adventures and stirring inward journeys. In The Magic Words, editor Cheryl B. Klein guides writers on an enjoyable and practical-minded voyage of their own, from developing a saleable premise for a novel to finding a dream agent. She delves deep into the major elements of fiction—intention, character, plot, and voice—while addressing important topics like diversity, world-building, and the differences between middle-grade and YA novels. In addition, the book’s exercises, questions, and straightforward rules of thumb help writers apply these insights to their own creative works. With its generous tone and useful tools for story analysis and revision, The Magic Words is an essential handbook for writers of children’s and young adult fiction.

The Disney Learning Magical Adventures in Preschool workbook takes young learners on an adventure through 200+ early math and reading activities! Classic Disney characters Minnie, Mickey, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto encourage kids as they learn important skills for school.

Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet introduces babies and toddlers to a colorful variety of vegetables, from asparagus to zucchini. Perfect to read aloud, this vegetable buffet will delight children and parents alike with its yummy vegetable facts and vibrant illustrations. Learning the ABCs has never been so delicious! Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet is the first in a series of board books celebrating the joy of nature at home and in the backyard, from fresh fruits and vegetables to birds, bugs, flowers, and trees.

Kipper the dog and his friend Arnold work through the alphabet by collecting animals and other things for each letter.

"Highly recommended... Perfect for readers of Wonder and Erin Entrada Kelly's Hello, Universe."— Booklist magazine, starred review Etan has stopped speaking since his mother left. His father and grandfather don’t know how to help him. His friends have given up on him. When Etan is asked to deliver a grocery order to the outskirts of town, he realizes he’s at the home of Malia Agbayani, also known as the Creature. Malia stopped going to school when her acute eczema spread to her face, and the bullying became too much. As the two become friends, other kids tease Etan for knowing the Creature. But he believes he might have a cure for Malia’s condition, if only he can convince his family and hers to believe it too. Even if it works, will these two outcasts find where they fit in?

A real professor and her student forge a friendship through correspondence as they discuss love, art, life, cancer, and death. In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. Over the next four years—in which Ritvo’s illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed—the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo’s exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. “We’ll always know one another forever, however long ever is,” Ritvo writes. “And that’s all I want—is to know you forever.” Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife. Praise for Letters from Max “An unusual, beautiful book about nothing less than the necessity of art in our lives. Two big-hearted, big-brained writers have allowed us to eavesdrop on their friendship: jokes and heartbreaks, admiration, hard work, tender work.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway “Immediate comparisons will be made to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Artist . . . this book is a nuanced look at the evolution of an incredible talent facing mortality and the mentor, never condescending, who recognizes his gift. Their infectious letters shine with a love of words and beauty.” —The Observer “Deeply moving, often heartbreaking. . . . A captivating celebration of life and love.” —Kirkus Reviews “Moving and erudite . . . devastating and lyrical . . . Ruhl draws a comparison between their correspondence and that between poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, and indeed, with the depth and intelligence displayed, one feels in the presence of literary titans.” —Publishers Weekly

This story of two girls trying to banish a witch is “full of wonderful fun, excitement, and humor” (Library Journal). Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly around on her broomstick, crying “Heh-heh!” and casting abracadabras. But now she has been sent away . . . by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa have decided that Old Witch is just too mean and wicked. So, drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, they exile Old Witch there with a warning: She better be good, or else no Halloween! But to give Old Witch some company, they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby . . . Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill. And Amy and Clarissa are about to find that out, when Old Witch magics them into her world of make-believe-made-real, in “a very special book that is certain to give boundless pleasure—at any time of the year” (The Horn Book). “A classic for Halloween.” —Library Journal

Bus Driver B travels through the town where the alphabet lives, loading his bus with passengers from A to Z, including a masked R and Detective D.