Books with author Michael Rex

The boxcar is loaded and ready to go. All aboard!"I have a freight train. I drive it all the time. I’m the engineer."The freight train is all loaded up and ready to go. The engineer is at the controls. It’s his job to deliver the freight, and there is a lot of it. Cows and chickens are riding in the livestock car, furniture and toys in the boxcar. There is even a refrigerator car full of ice cream and bologna. Driving all this freight where it needs to go is a big job!In this bright, active picture book, a little boy lives out the fantasy of driving his own freight train, down to the last accurate detail.

A bright and simple concept book takes readers through a noisy, smelly, sudsy, cluttered, and thoroughly enjoyable kitchen."The dishwasher is loud.The counter is cluttered.The blender is noisy.The sandwich is cut.The bags are plastic.The milk is spilled.The popcorn is popping!"Through breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, the kitchen is filled with interesting sights, smells, sounds and tastes. On this delicious trip through the kitchen, detail-rich scenes will delight young children as they recognize familiar foods and objects and learn new words to describe them. There's lots of fun to be had in the room where the syrup is sticky, the candy is hidden and the pie is cherry!

George is an ape—not a monkey—and he is perfectly happy living his simple life in the jungle, until one day the man in the funny hat kidnaps him and brings him to the big city. Poor George! Forced to live in a cage at the zoo, then work hard manual labor and be mocked on stage—George has every reason to be upset. In fact, after all the maltreatment, he’s downright furious! So it’s a good thing George is one clever ape. Perhaps getting mad is not the only answer. Readers will laugh out loud when George comes up with a way to outsmart the man in the funny hat.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Class 3G gets a new class pet from Fangbone's barbarian home world--an unhatced egg of the legendary White-titan Razor-dragon! But the evil Venomous Drool is also after the egg, and Fangbone must turn to his classmates to help protect it from danger. With Eastwood Elementary's science-themed pagent fast approaching, can the 3rd graders come up with the perfect class project and take care of the egg until it hatches?

One Halloween, a little witch joins a group of young trick-or-treaters, and all participate in a wonderful foot-stomping, hand-clapping dance. But when the children take off their masks, they get a big surprise: under her mask, the little witch really is a witch—and she shows the others that brooms really are for flying.With his signature bold, bright artwork and simple, engaging text, Michael Rex has created the perfect Halloween book for preschoolers, who will love to do as the monsters do in this uproarious celebration of Halloween. The rhythmic text begs to be chanted, and the little witch provides all the thrills of this favorite holiday without any of the chills.