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The Village Garage
G. Brian Karas
eBook (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), June 25, 2013)Through the year and no matter the weather, workers at the Village Garage are always busy. With the help of their trusty trucks, they clean the streets of sticks and leaves in the spring; patch potholes in preparation for summer traffic; pick up the leaves in the fall; and spray the roads with sand and salt during winter. Young truck enthusiasts will love watching the garage workers operate their terrific trucks and keep the roads in top shape through every season!The Village Garage is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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The Windy Day
G. Brian Karas
Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, May 1, 1998)A blustery wind creates havoc in an otherwise quiet town, resulting in such unusual happenings as whirling wedding cakes, airborne alarm clocks, and bouncing bananas, until a little boy decides to greet the exciting wind. Children's BOMC.
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I Know an Old Lady
G. Brian Karas
Library Binding (Scholastic, March 1, 1995)Reviving the classic children's song about the old lady who swallowed a fly, zany full-color artwork introduces a young narrator so surprised by the lady's appetite that he records each meal in his reporter's notebook and on film.
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The Class Artist
G. Brian Karas
Hardcover (Greenwillow, Aug. 1, 2001)Despite the trouble he has at first working on art projects at school and with the help of his big sister Martha, Fred develops his creativity and becomes the class artist.
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On Earth
MR G Brian Karas
Library Binding (Perfection Learning, March 1, 2008)Climb aboard a giant spaceship . . . the Earth! In glorious art, G. Brian Karas illuminates our Earth and its cycles and does a brilliant job of making the concepts of rotation and revolution understandable. As you travel, watch shadows disappear into night, and feel the sun on your face as winter turns into spring. All these amazing things happen because the Earth is constantly in motion, spinning and circling, gliding and tilting. As passengers of the Earth, our voyage never ends!
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Home on the Bayou: A Cowboy's Story
G. Brian Karas
Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Oct. 1, 1996)Ned, a young cowboy from the wide open West, proves that home can be anywhere with only the slightest adjustments after he moves to swamp country and has a run-in with the alligators and a western-style showdown with the school bully, Big Head Ed.
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Carlita Ropes the Twister
G. Brian Karas
Paperback (Steck-Vaughn Company, Jan. 1, 1999)None
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The Village Garage
G. Brian Karas
Hardcover (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), June 8, 2010)Through the year and no matter the weather, workers at the Village Garage are always busy. With the help of their trusty trucks, they clean the streets of sticks and leaves in the spring; patch potholes in preparation for summer traffic; pick up the leaves in the fall; and spray the roads with sand and salt during winter. Young truck enthusiasts will love watching the garage workers operate their terrific trucks and keep the roads in top shape through every season!The Village Garage is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Bebe's Bad Dream
G. Brian Karas
Hardcover (Greenwillow Books, April 5, 2000)Bebe has a problem. Aliens are trying to eat her for dinner. She can see their beady eyes. She can hear their slurpy lips. They are everywhere, and they are out to get her.It doesn't matter to Bebe that her mother and her friends and ever her mean older brother, Walter (talk about a problem!), are telling her that the aliens are just a bad dream. Bebe KNOWS.Just as she finally knows it is up to her to send them back to deep space, forever.
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Young Zeus by G. Brian Karas
G. Brian Karas
Hardcover (Scholastic Press, March 15, 1887)None
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Bebe's Bad Dream
G. Brian Karas
Library Binding (Greenwillow, April 1, 2000)Bebe is sure that scary green aliens are coming to get her in her sleep, but makes her bad dream into a funny one by thinking about what would happen if the aliens came for her pesky older brother instead.
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