“The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a familiar fable that teachers readers important life lessons in an entertaining way. In this engaging retelling, readers are introduced to this classic story through clear text that’s closely aligned with colorful illustrations to enhance reading comprehension skills. Even the most reluctant readers will be charmed by the humorous illustrations that fill each page. Why did the emperor’s friends and advisors let him walk through the town with no clothes on? Readers will be excited to find out!

The emperor thinks he's wearing fancy clothes. But really, he is naked! Find out what happens next in this classic tale.

In December 2012, Australia became the first nation in the world to require all tobacco products to be sold in standard ‘plain’ packs under the leadership of the then Health Minister Nicola Roxon. Tobacco companies have had global apoplexy about the law. Humiliated in the Australian High Court with a six-one defeat, their hopes now rest with deterring other nations from following suit by pursuing international trade law action. With a combined 50 years of research and advocacy experience in tobacco control, Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman set out the evidence for the importance of plain packaging in striking at the heart of what remains of tobacco advertising. They examine the history of the idea, the tobacco industry’s frantic efforts to derail it, and the early evidence for its impact. Most importantly, they give tools to policy makers in other countries wanting to make the best case for plain packaging and to defend it from the inevitable attacks that will follow.

A humorous fairy tale musical for Unison and 2-part voices. Experience this new, humorous setting of the famous Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Emperor's New Clothes, adapted by the popular writing team of Dave and Jean Perry. This well-known tale is of a good-hearted but gullible king, duped by two cunning scoundrels who weave an invisible suit of clothes which only the wise can see. The dialog is witty, the songs are clever and fun to sing, and the fully orchestrated SoundTrax is spectacular. Approx. 40 minutes.

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.

RATS! The town of Hamelin is overrun with them and the citizens are in a tizzy-until the mysterious Pied Piper appears, offering to solve their dilemma for a small fee. Dave and Jean Perry tell the story like never before in this fast-paced, 35-minute musical setting. The characters are charming, the dialog is witty, the songs are clever and fun to sing, and the fully-orchestrated SoundTrax CD is spectacular!