Books published by publisher Marshall Cavendish Children's Books

"Fiddlesticks! Six? The best? Poppycock!You want TEN TIMES BETTER? Dial a croc.I have SIXTY teeth. I'm a great masticator.(That means I chew first, and ask questions later.)" RICHARD MICHELSON and the late LEONARD BASKIN show that learning to count and to multiply by ten need never be boring! In a counting book like no other, a variety of animals duel for the honor of the number they represent. Backed up by interesting natural history information, the poems are clever, sometimes even preposterous. Bold watercolors convey the animals' conviction that their number is undoubtedly the best! Children will laugh their way along the road to numerical literacy.

Hide your blueberry muffins!Meet Larry. He’s an average polar bear from the Arctic who just happens to take a snooze on an ice floe. When he wakes up, he is in Bayonne, New Jersey. Stranded at the shore, Larry gets a job as a lifeguard and uses his pay to buy blueberry muffins—until the day the head lifeguard discovers that Larry is a polar bear. Suddenly Larry finds himself jobless and, even worse, blueberry-muffinless.It’s a bear’s life—or is it?—in this laugh-out-loud tale of an endearing polar bear who stumbles into a charmed lifestyle that other bears can only dream about.

If an insect can fly, we might think it's a fly and call it a fly, but can it join the club Diptera? That club (scientists call it an "order") is reserved for real flies only-to join, an insect must have six legs and two wings. There are close to 90,000 species of flies. In the witty poems and paragraphs of this enlightening book, you'll discover fantastic flies that exist only in the imagination and fascinating facts about nine real files-and even some non-flies you thought were flies! With a humorous and descriptive mix of poetry and prose, the author exposes several extraordinary variations of this ordinary household pest. Realistic and interpretive drawings mingle on the pages to depict the types of flies you might encounter. It's something to think about the next time you go to swat a fly! New York Public Library's 1999 "Best Children's Books for Reading and Sharing."

On his way to Baghdad, Joha discovers a wishing stick. But how does it work? Joha makes some wishes, and the opposites come true. His old sandals disappear when he wishes for a new pair. He carries a donkey on his back after wishing for a donkey to carry him. And when the sultan gets hold of the stick, things really get out of control. How will Joha learn its secrets before he wishes himself into more trouble?

Go-Go Baby is one toddler who isn't about to settle down for a nap. Zooming along in her stroller, she leads her sister and mother on a chase through the city, until she's finally worn out. Children will enjoy busy urban scenes with a bus, train, and ferry. Whimsical illustrations by Steven Salerno and a spare, poetic text by Roxane Orgill make this a great read-aloud book.