Books with title The Ice Monster

The Sport Mites and their creator Robert W. Pelkowski welcome all kids to the Mitey Clubhouse, where they show that sports can be both safe and fun to play. Youngsters learn the joy of giving each game their best shot, while also learning the ground rules and terms that are special to the sport. The Sport Mites with Freddie Faceoff and Fanny Falls in ICE MONSTER learn about ice hockey

Delightfully interactive picture book with plush finger-puppet eyes that peek through every page. These eye-popping, wacky Wiggly Eyes picture books bring to life the characters inside. Each vibrant book has a pair of wobbly eyes that parents and children can control with their fingers as they follow along with the stories. Meet Max the Monster. He lives under the bed, but he's not so sure that's where he belongs. Children will love moving Max's sock-puppet-style eyes around to see each new spot he considers: the bathtub, the top of the television, and more. This interactive adventure with a gentle, lovable monster will be a hit with children and parents alike. Ages 2-4.

Danielle has lost her math homework, again! Where could it be? She discovers a pencil named Matthew has been taking her homework and grading it. The two become fast friends but when mean girl Kristi steals the pencil, Danielle is forced to face her fears alone. Their friendship “adds-up” to be a heart-warming tale about having confidence in yourself with a little help from The Math Monster.

Kit is a wizard.The youngest wizard in the world, in fact. But her magic keeps going wrong, and all kinds of weird stuff has started happening - exploding fireballs, animals talking when they shouldn't be, and a very strange new arrival in a nearby park. So Kit and her two best friends - along with their local librarian - set off to investigate, and to save the world... again.Brilliantly illustrated throughout by Davide Ortu, The Monster is the Lake is the funny, exciting, action-packed sequel to The Dragon in the Library.

When Paddy goes on an overnight visit to his grandfather's, he thinks his grandfather's house is bigger and darker and spookier than he remembered. When things start to go bump in the night, Paddy is sure that he's hearing monsters. So Pop does what any grandfather would do -- he builds a monster trap.The next night, the monster trap is set, baited with a delicious (to a monster) snack that Pop assures Paddy no monster will be able to resist. Paddy waits for a sign that the trap has snared a monster, but he soon discovers that the trap doesn't work in quite the way that Pop imagined. Lavishly illustrated with Dean Morrissey's spectacular oil paintings, the monster trap will delight fans of his earlier works, as well as anyone who has ever wondered just what it was they heard under their bed or deep in their closet in the middle of the night.

Cornell University professor Arthur Maxon, who has been experimenting in the creation of artificial life, travels with his daughter Virginia to one of the remote Pamarung Islands in the East Indies to pursue his project. Their departure is noted with interest by a young man, Townsend J. Harper, Jr., who is quite taken with Virginia and determines to find out where they are going. In Singapore Maxon commissions Dr. Carl von Horn to take them the remainder of the way to their destination in his yacht the Ithaca, and then to assist him in his experiments. On the island the group fights off a pirate attack and builds a fort.Maxon and von Horn begin their experiments, growing several living creatures in chemical vats, humanoid but mindless and ugly. Maxon hopes Experiment Number Thirteen will result in a perfect human being, and in his fanatic obsession plans to wed Virginia to this ultimate creation. Von Horn retains a more realistic viewpoint and hopes to marry her himself, leading to friction. Meanwhile, locals including Budadreen, one of von Horn’s crewmen, and Muda Saffir, leader of the pirates, conspire against the scientists, whom they believe are hiding treasure. They are watched closely by Chinese cook Sing Lee, who recognizes the pirate.Experiment Number Thirteen indeed appears to result in a physically perfect man, but as soon as the scientists discover this an emergency distracts them. Experiment Number One has escaped and abducted Virginia. Maxon, von Horn and Sing Lee pursue the monster, only to find it dead at the hands of Number Thirteen, also escaped from the lab in the wake of the scientists’ departure. Thinking Virginia still in danger, von Horn attacks the creature and is nearly killed himself, but is spared by Thirteen when Virginia pleads for his life. Ignorant of the handsome stranger’s origin, the girl finds herself attracted to him.Maxon and von Horn return Thirteen to the lab and begin educating him. Von Horn privately discloses to Virginia Maxon's plan to wed her to one of his creatures, while concealing it is her rescuer to whom she is to be wed. Separately, he informs Thirteen of his artificial origin. Both recipients of his confidences are horrified. Thirteen, or Jack, as he is now called, is convinced that he is a soulless monster and that Maxon must be stopped.Von Horn absconds with Virginia while Jack goes to confront Maxon, Budadreen and six crewmen steal a chest they believe holds Maxon’s wealth. Muda Saffir’s pirates pirates attack the compound and appropriate the chest. Jack, reconsidering his rage, defends Maxon and Sing Lee against the pirates. Virginia rebuff’s von Horn’s advances and falls in with Budadreen, who takes her captive and sails off in von Horn’s yacht. Von Horn, since his effort to turn Jack against Maxon has failed, releases the other eleven monsters against them. Jack overawes the creatures and gains control of them, but Maxon, apparently regaining his sanity, turns on him and drives him away.The Ithaca is wrecked in a gale, and Budadreen and his men swept overboard; later the drifting hulk is boarded by headhunters. Jack and the eleven monsters search for Virginia and find the yacht in the harbor, when it is boarded by Muda Saffir's pirates, the monsters attack them. Saffir takes Virginia and flees the battle in his prahu; the monsters, capturing another prahu, pursue them....(non illustrated)

The Sport Mites and their creator Robert W. Pelkowski welcome all kids to the Mitey Clubhouse, where they show that sports can be both safe and fun to play. Youngsters learn the joy of giving each game their best shot, while also learning the ground rules and terms that are special to the sport. The Sport Mites with Freddie Faceoff and Fanny Falls in ICE MONSTER learn about ice hockey.