Books with author richard-powell

Preschool kids won't know what a "lenticular" panel is (parents probably won't know, either)--but everybody will have fun seeing how it works! Move this book slightly, changing your angle of vision in relation to the cover, and the panel presents first one picture, then another! Keep varying that angle of vision and the picture keeps changing! This big board book has an inset lenticular panel that shows a clever little girl. Every illustrated board page has a rectangular cut-out to accommodate the panel and to serve as a words-and-pictures frame around it. In Happy or Sad?, the little girl's face changes from happy to sad. Kids who open this Making Faces book to any two-page spread will find a question, and its answer will make the little girl either happy or sad. Kids can move the book so that the little girl in the panel smiles or frowns. (Ages 3-5)

By chance, eleven-year-old twins Nate and Herman Howe meet Mrs. Weatherby, a retired member of the Los Angeles branch of Witches Bureau of Investigation. The boys ask her to help find their mother, who has been missing for six months. Reluctantly, Mrs. Weatherby agrees, though all of her licenses to work magic have expired. She reaches out to her old colleagues, for information and assistance, but they soon uncover a dangerous plot that threatens the safety of the entire world. The Bureau may be compromised, so it's up to Mrs. Weatherby's band of retired agents to follow the clues and keep the horrors of history from resurfacing.

Santa Claus arrives in the Emerald City, but he's in trouble and needs help. Eight-year-old Button-Bright joins Santa on a secret mission throughout Oz, encountering magic, mystery and danger at every stop. Meanwhile, the little Wizard and his apprentice, beautiful Iliana, delve into the dark history of the Land of Oz. Fully illustrated by the author.