Meet Little Llama, who is about to make a very special friend: a lively chinchilla. But Llama and Chinchilla are nothing alike. Will they be able to set aside their differences and be friends? Featuring a unique blend of photos and illustrations, this adorable book is perfect for bedtime or nap time, with a simple story sure to give your little one sweet dreams.

On an mountain in Peru, There was a Llama.... Sweet colorful bedtime story about a llama and all of her friends saying goodnight. Includes mountains, cats, guinea pigs, and alpacas all set in the beautiful mountains of Peru. A loving parody of Goodnight Moon.

Bedtime becomes funtime with this amusing goodnight story about little llamas who refuse to sleep. The moon is rising, it's getting late; the hour has come for all little llamas to get in their pajamas. But Mama Llama has a lot on her hands, because her naughty children want to play instead. Llamas here, llamas there, llamas having a pillow fight everywhere. One thirsty llama wants water in his mug, another snuggly llama wants Mama's hug. Will they ever, ever go to sleep? Every toddler will recognize and delight in the llamas' mischievous tactics.

This book correlates English-speaking children’s brain development and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes from children’s books. Drawing from the most current research on the developing brain, the author demonstrates how language acquisition is exclusively interactive, and highlights the benefit that accrues when that interaction includes the exploratory language play found in early childhood literature. Through discussions of specific domains of grammar, the relation of these domains to children’s literature through scaffolding, and the resultant linguistic and cognitive advantages for the child, this volume offers an innovative approach to early brain maturation.

An exciting story of a Texas Ranger, adventurer, and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild frontier regions of Texas, Arizona, and Old and New Mexico. Charles Goodnight knew the West of Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Dick Wooton, St. Vrain, and Lucien Maxwell. He ranged a country as vast as Bridger ranged. He rode with the boldness of Fremont, guided by the craft of Carson. His vigorous zest for life enabled him to live intensely and amply, and in this book by J. Evetts Haley, himself no stranger to the West, provides a fully readable and important western biography, vividly told, thrilling, witty, and completely authentic.

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.