Books with author Natalie Shaw

Find out what it’s really like to get a baby brother or sister in this adorable shaped book based on the movie, The Boss Baby. DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby, based on the Simon & Schuster book by Marla Frazee, is now an Oscar-nominated motion picture!Are you getting a baby brother or sister? Get ready to meet your new boss! He or she might look sweet, but don’t be fooled. Inside that big, sweet baby head, that little baby means business! The Boss Baby © 2017 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Mavis accidentally makes her Aunt Lydia young again in this hilarious novel based on an episode of the hit Disney Channel show Hotel Transylvania: The Series.Aunt Lydia is ruining the afterlife! Mavis and her friends really want to go to Roachella, the biggest concert of the year, but strict Aunt Lydia says no. If only Aunt Lydia were a teenager, she’d understand just how cool Roachella is! That’s when Mavis gets an idea—she can use Uncle Gene’s zombie sprayer to make Aunt Lydia young again! Sure enough, Teen Lydia isn’t so uptight—in fact, Teen Lydia is, well, cool. So cool that she no longer wants to run Hotel Transylvania. If everyone goes to the concert, who will look after the hotel? Will Mavis and her friends make it to Roachella after all? ™ & © 2018 Sony Pictures Animation Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Find out what it’s really like to get a baby brother or sister in this adorable shaped book based on the movie, The Boss Baby. DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby, based on the Simon & Schuster book by Marla Frazee, is now an Oscar-nominated motion picture!Are you getting a baby brother or sister? Get ready to meet your new boss! He or she might look sweet, but don’t be fooled. Inside that big, sweet baby head, that little baby means business! The Boss Baby © 2017 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Join the Pod Squad as they build a new playground in Doozer Creek in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read based on a popular episode of the newest preschool series by The Jim Henson Company!The Pod Squad wants to make their neighborhood a better place, so they decide to build a new playground for everyone to enjoy! To make it a little easier, Spike invented a Super Sticking Spray to join pieces together. But when Spike’s spray turns from super sticky to super slippery, Professor Gimbal slips and falls—and gets stuck in the playground equipment! Can the Pod Squad stick with it and find a way to get Professor Gimbal unstuck? Encourage your little ones to imagine, invent, design, and create with the Doozers, brought to you by the creators of Fraggle Rock! TM & © 2015 The Jim Henson Company

In this pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read based on Richard Scarry's Busytown Mysteries, readers help Huckle Cat solve a mystery about a radio message! A call for help on the police radio sounds like "Goat . . . duck . . . socks . . . HELP!" But what does that mean? Huckle finds out that different words can sound alike, and that the message isn't really about goats, ducks, or socks at all! But will he solve the mystery in time?

Explore the North Pole in this storybook based on the Rise of the Guardians movie. Includes a sheet of stickers.The North Pole is the perfect place for the Guardians to meet when they have important business to discuss, and this 8x8 paperback allows for an in-depth exploration of Santa Claus’s home base. Learn how the Yetis test toys and guard North’s reindeer. See how the toys are made, hear the elves tell their stories, and find out how everything gets finished just in time for Christmas. This book also comes with a sheet of stickers showing all the Guardians, plus elves and Yetis galore! Kids will love this “sneak peek” at what goes on at North’s workshop.

Miffy plants a seed in this spring-themed book that’s part of an all-new Ready-to-Read level, Ready-to-Go!Perfect for kids at the beginning of their reading journeys, Miffy Can Help! was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading! And what better way to get kids excited than with a fun story with words they can actually read and starring their favorite sweet, little bunny? Each Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read includes a note to parents explaining what their child can expect, a guide at the beginning for readers to become familiar with the words they will encounter in the story, and reading comprehension questions at the end. Each Ready-to-Go! story contains 100 words and features sight words, rhyming words, and repetition to help children reinforce their new reading skills. In this book, readers will learn fifteen sight words and two words from one word family. So come on and get reading with Miffy as she shows you all the ways she can help a seed grow into a flower! Stories and images are based on the work of Dick Bruna. ‘Miffy and Friends’ © copyright Mercis Media bv, all rights reserved.

Mavis and her friends go trick-or-treating in this hilarious novel based on an episode of the hit Disney Channel show Hotel Transylvania: The Series.On Halloween, a curious Mavis and her friends break with tradition and do something every monster has been warned not to do: they go trick-or-treating. How much trouble can they cause? Plenty apparently. According to legend, when monsters go out on Halloween they conjure up Pumpkin Guts, a centuries-old spirit who wants to turn all monsters into jack-o’-lanterns. Luckily Drac finds out and takes a short break from the Vampire Council. Surely he can help Mavis before she’s reduced to a pile of pumpkin seeds and guts! ™ & © 2019 Sony Pictures Animation Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Wendy stretches herself a little too thin when trying to protect her friends in this hilarious novel based on an episode of the hit Disney Channel show Hotel Transylvania: The Series.Talk about a sticky situation! When Dr. Gillman saves Wendy’s life she feels forever indebted to him. Actually, all he did was remove gum from her ponytail but she is super grateful nonetheless. Wendy’s selfless nature plus the Blob family’s code of honor compels her to be by his side 24/7 until she finds a way to save his life. The good doctor prefers to fly solo, so he turns to Mavis. Surely she’ll know what to do. Mavis is happy to help, but her scheme doesn’t exactly go as planned. Before long Wendy is racing around trying to save everyone at the hotel. In doing so she literally spreads herself too thin—attaching blobettes (mini versions of herself) to whomever she encounters. Will Mavis figure out a way to restore Wendy to her whole, adorable self? ™ & © 2018 Sony Pictures Animation Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Mavis accidentally makes her Aunt Lydia young again in this hilarious novel based on an episode of the hit Disney Channel show Hotel Transylvania: The Series.Aunt Lydia is ruining the afterlife! Mavis and her friends really want to go to Roachella, the biggest concert of the year, but strict Aunt Lydia says no. If only Aunt Lydia were a teenager, she’d understand just how cool Roachella is! That’s when Mavis gets an idea—she can use Uncle Gene’s zombie sprayer to make Aunt Lydia young again! Sure enough, Teen Lydia isn’t so uptight—in fact, Teen Lydia is, well, cool. So cool that she no longer wants to run Hotel Transylvania. If everyone goes to the concert, who will look after the hotel? Will Mavis and her friends make it to Roachella after all? ™ & © 2018 Sony Pictures Animation Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Get to know the talented racing snails from Turbo in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read!The DreamWorks movie Turbo revs up in theaters on July 17, 2013!Meet Turbo and all of the other racing snails in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read story. Get to know Whiplash, Skidmark, Burn, Smoove Move, and White Shadow as they show off their racing skills—and their larger-than-life personalities!DreamWorks Turbo © 2013 DreamWorks Animation L.L.C.