On an animal farm located high in eastern Pennsylvania, next to the dark forest, the farm animals like to pass the time by playing a game of tag, led by the farmer's two Shih Tzu dogs, Omni and Baby. A six-foot fence surrounds the farm, which the farmer put up to protect his animals from the bigger and meaner animals who live in the dark forest. The farmer calls them bullies because they all pick on the farm animals. One day, the farmer is working in the lower fields, and the farm animals are playing the game, when suddenly, a big hungry coyote leaps up onto the six-foot fence. He looks at all the farm animals who are frozen with fear. Omni and Baby know that they have to band the animals together and have enough faith to send the worst bully back to the dark forest with the help of an unsuspecting friend.

Kids love animals as much as they love puzzles and silly word games. Barnyard Games & Puzzles follows the success of Horse Games & Puzzles for Kids and The Petting Farm Poster Book. Full of lively drawings, it offers page after page of word games and picture puzzles, as well as jokes, riddles, and word play. Puzzle books for kids are often either too simplistic or too frustratingly difficult for young solvers. Barnyard Games & Puzzles was created by two experienced puzzle makers who have designed a variety of puzzles specifically for five-to eight-year-old readers. With nearly 100 puzzles, the book clusters simpler games in the front and draws the reader on to more complex ones. Connect-the-dots pictures and find-the-hidden-items drawings will entice younger children, while the mix of crossword puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, mazes, word searches, logic puzzles, codes, and other games will provide hours of fun and delight for both beginning and more experienced readers. Each illustrated page has lots to look at and plenty of room for small fingers to write. A pair of funny farmyard friends wander through the pages giving directions and telling silly jokes. Kids love animals as much as they love puzzles and silly word games. Barnyard Games & Puzzles follows the success of Horse Games & Puzzles for Kids and The Petting Farm Poster Book. Full of lively drawings, it offers page after page of word games and picture puzzles, as wellas jokes, riddles, and word play. Puzzle books for kids are often either too simplistic or too frustratingly difficult for young solvers. Barnyard Games & Puzzles was created bytwo experienced puzzle makers who have designed a variety of puzzles specifically for five-to eight-year-old readers. With nearly 100 puzzles, the book clusters simpler games in the front and draws the reader on to more complex ones. Connect-the-dots pictures and find-the-hidden-items drawings will entice younger children, while the mix of crossword puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, mazes, word searches, logic puzzles, codes, and other games will provide hours of fun and delight for both beginning and more experienced readers. Each illustrated page has lots to look at and plenty of room for small fingers to write. A pair of funny farmyard friends wander through the pages giving directions and telling silly jokes. Barnyard Games & Puzzles is sure to appeal to country and city kids alike.

Loaded with picture puzzles, word searches, mazes, riddles, and brainteasers, Farm Fun Games & Puzzles promises hours of engagement for puzzle-loving kids ages 6-10 with a passion for the farm, animals, and country life.

A farm is a farm is a farm is a farm-E I E I E I Oh. . . . From the author of The Paper Bag Princesses; Benedict & Arnold, A Squirrels' Race to be Mayor; and, Clara's Christmas Countdown comes THE BARNYARD GAMES. It's an imaginative and beautifully illustrated story about farm animals who come from farms near and far for the first annual barnyard games. Chelsea Chick is cute and impatient. She wants THE BARNYARD GAMES to begin, now-she's competing. The cows are cheering fans and moo-along the story; and, the competition amongst the farm animals is fun, fast and furious as bulls run, pigs wrestle, ducks paddle, goats kick, and chicks, like Chelsea, race. "Wake up, wake up," Chelsea Chick peeped as she bounced up and down and back and forth in front of the big red barn. She had been up for hours practicing running fast and jumping high. "Isn't anyone else excited about today's Barnyard Games?" she peeped. Chelsea was over-the-moon excited. She was ready to strut her stuff in the hurdles race. Ordinarily, the daily lives of farm animals were nothing unusual. . . Chickens lay eggs. Cows give milk. Pigs oink. Ducks quack.... But, today, chickens, cows, bulls, pigs, ducks and goats had come from farms near and far to run, jump, wrestle, paddle and race in the First Annual Barnyard Games. "Where is everybody?" Chelsea, again, peeped to no reply. So, she decided to go peck at the big yellow feet of Maximilian the Rooster. "Good morning, Mr. Rooster, sir," Chelsea greeted. "When are you going to start the games?" she asked. "Chill, little chick," Maximilian crooned. "I am going to start the games soon. You just calm, calm, calm your little self way, way down," he stuttered and stammered as he nudged Chelsea away. Soon, Chelsea found herself back outside the barn impatiently waiting, again. THE BARNYARD GAMES is a fun and exciting reading investment where children will discover winning and losing lessons.

Jackie the little Jack Russell terrier and Barney the barn owl see all the goings-on around the horse farm every day. They provide lively running commentary and silly horsy humor in this delightful collection of connect-the-dots, word games, mazes, fill-in-the-blanks, and logic problems — each puzzle specially created for horse-crazy kids. Five sections — Walk, Trot, Show Time, Canter, and Gallop — feature puzzles that progress in difficulty, encouraging children to take the challenge and expand their skills as they work their way through the book, and perhaps through their riding lessons as well! By the time children are galloping through the final chapter their puzzle skills will be blue-ribbon impressive. Each illustrated page is packed with complementary drawings, clever asides from Jackie and Barney, perhaps a riddle or a joke, and the puzzle itself. There is always plenty of room for small fingers to solve the challenge, even when the child makes a mistake or two. Educational and entertaining, Pony Play stimulates kids' imaginations and feeds their desire to learn more about horses.

"Letter recognition, initial consonant sounds, ending sounds."--Cover.

Children will love to explore the bright and noisy barnyard in this wonderful collection of poems from the award-winning author and illustrator team of Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz.