Moonrat, the leader of a band of pirate rats, plots to steal the moon from the sky and add it to his treasure hoard.

Every day in your classroom will be a special day when you use the creative ideas in this book. Like the other excellent books in this series, a reason to celebrate every day in the month is included with fun activity ideas to be plugged into your regular curriculum: language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, physical fitness, art, etc. Special days in August include: Friendship Day, This Is Your Life Day, International Left-Handers' Day, Desert Day and Career Day, just to name a few. Your students will look forward to every day of the school year when you make it a constant celebration. And they'll learn while they have fun! Included are fun patterns for writing assignments and art projects as well as lists of correlated books, recipes, reproducibles and bulletin board ideas.

This annual brings together the two key aspects of children's (from pre-schoolers through teenagers) publishing--the writing and the illustrating--in one handy volume of book publishing and magazine markets. Writers and illustrators will find helpful articles to help them market their work in this lucrative field.

Lists books by subject and title and recommends what book children and young adults should read next based on their previous likes and dislikes.

Presents a guide to nearly 27,000 children's oicture book titles grouped in over 1,200 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.