Books with author Sheila Sweeny Higginson

A baby brother is on the way! Older siblings will love this board book primer on how to receive their new addition.Everyone is delighted that a baby brother is joining the family—but older siblings may be slightly unsure. Fortunately for them, this rhyming board book addresses what to expect: “You’ll have to take turns. Does he know how to play? No, he does not. He just gets in the way.” The text, accompanied by irresistible art from renowned illustrator Sam Williams, also explains how older kids can be role models to their new little brother: “He needs you to protect him. Teach him all that you know. Show him patience and love, he’s just starting to grow.” At the back of the book, there’s even designated space for older siblings to write about their new baby brother.This book is a great gift for the new big brother or big sister to be! And a great gift for parents, too!Sam Williams’s Baby Cakes has sold more than 65,000 copies!

A baby sister is on the way! Older siblings will love this board book primer on how to receive their new addition.A baby sister is joining the family! That’s great news, but older siblings may be a bit uncertain. Fortunately for them, this rhyming board book addresses what to expect: “Your sister will drool. She will smell. She will scream. She just might pull your hair. She’ll do things that seem mean.” The text, accompanied by irresistible art from renowned illustrator Sam Williams, also explains how older kids can be role models to their new little sister: “You can be her first teacher. Show her things that you know. Give her patience and love, she’s just starting to grow.” At the back of the book, there’s even designated space for older siblings to write about their new baby sister. This book is a great gift for the new big brother or big sister to be! And a great gift for parents, too!Sam Williams’s Baby Cakes has sold more than 65,000 copies!

Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse! Welcome to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse! Join Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto in two ready-to-read tales that teach valuable lessons about letters, numbers, shapes, decision-making, and friendshipGrumpy Pete tries to sneak into a Clubhouse party and accidentally says the wrong magic words that break the Clubhouse apart. It's up to Mickey and the reader to search for the missing pieces to put the Clubhouse back together in time for Easter. Children will love using the reusable clubhouse stickers to reassemble the clubhouse on the last page. The premiere of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse delivered the highest ratings ever for a Playhouse Disney series premiere among Kids 2-5, Girls 2-5, Households, and Total Viewers. It also premiered at #1 among all basic cable networks in its time period for Kids 2-5. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse shows no signs of slowing down as it settles in to its first season. It was in the Top 10 shows with Kids 2-5 for the month of May—tied with Spongebob Squarepants!

Join the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse “sensational six” as they take to the skies in a high-flying new adventure! Young readers accompany Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto as they explore their world in a hot-air balloon. Children will have fun using Toodles and the Mousketools to discover answers to questions along the way, and they’ll also learn to use their imaginations and powers of observation to spot the many shapes in their everyday lives – a “delicious triangle” in a half-sandwich, a rectangular roof top in a town square, and circles aplenty in a “round of golf!”

Meet the inventive kids who are coming up with ways to save the world in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people “you should meet!”Have you ever wondered what you could do to change the world? Find out how kids are helping the environment, inventing incredible medical devices, aiding the homeless, designing apps so other kids won’t ever have to eat alone in the cafeteria, and more! Learn all about what they’ve come up with and how their ideas are changing lives in this story of four amazing kids everyone should meet! A special section at the back of the book includes extras such as biographies of famous young inventors and contemporary activists plus interesting ideas for other ways that kids can change the world. With the You Should Meet series, learning about amazing people has never been so much fun!

Mavis’s little rotten egg hatches into a mischievous creature in this zany Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on an episode of the hit Disney Channel show Hotel Transylvania: The Series.Mavis is eager to prove she can take care of a living creature and rescues a so-called “bad egg” from Quasimodo’s clutches. Mavis raises little Weggsley until he hatches and soon has a vampire-eating, bad little egg on her hands. What will Mavis do? This paperback edition comes with two sheets of stickers! ™ & © 2018 Sony Pictures Animation Inc. All Rights Reserved.

When Donny's toy racecar, Ricardo, loses a race for the first time, it's time for Doc to look under the hood. Doc soon realizes that Ricardo is run down from so much racing and diagnoses him with No-Vroom-Vroom-atosis. Ricardo simply needs his batteries recharged! In the end, the gang learns a valuable lesson about the importance of giving our bodies enough rest.

Doc finds her old toy cell phone, Louie, in the toy box, and discovers that his volume control is stuck in the "loud" position, which makes games like "Hide and Seek" and "Telephone" a little tricky. Doc fixes the volume button, but Louie is so used to using his loud voice, he can't seem to make it quieter! So Doc and the other toys find a way to cure his Superlouditis. Kids (along with Louie) learn the difference between using "indoor" voices and "outdoor" voices in this Level Pre-1 reader.

A baby brother is on the way! Older siblings will love this board book primer on how to receive their new addition.Everyone is delighted that a baby brother is joining the family—but older siblings may be slightly unsure. Fortunately for them, this rhyming board book addresses what to expect: “You’ll have to take turns. Does he know how to play? No, he does not. He just gets in the way.” The text, accompanied by irresistible art from renowned illustrator Sam Williams, also explains how older kids can be role models to their new little brother: “He needs you to protect him. Teach him all that you know. Show him patience and love, he’s just starting to grow.” At the back of the book, there’s even designated space for older siblings to write about their new baby brother.This book is a great gift for the new big brother or big sister to be! And a great gift for parents, too!Sam Williams’s Baby Cakes has sold more than 65,000 copies!

Dad's toy from when he was a boy, Jingle Bell Bear, has been waking Doc and Donny up on Christmas morning every year for as long as Doc can remember. But this year, Jingle Bell's ringer is broken! While Doc works on finding a cure, Lambie, Stuffy, and the rest of the toys realize how special Doc is to them. Now it's their turn to make something extra special for Doc, and Jingle Bell can't wait to help!