Books with title Drake's Special Delivery

Sadie is on her way to deliver an elephant to her Great-Aunt Josephine, who lives completely alone and can really use the company.She tries everything from mailing the elephant to boarding a plane, a train, and an alligator to get to her aunt's home. Along the way she meets an array of interesting characters, including an odd postal worker and a gang of bandit monkeys, who all help her get where she is going.This eccentric and hilarious story from Philip C. Stead, the author of the Caldecott-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee and illustrator Matthew Cordell will surprise and entertain from beginning to end.This title has Common Core connections.

There's a new member of the family in this touching new Main Street story...Flora and Ruby's Aunt Allie has always wanted to have a baby . . . and now, suddenly, it's happening! Allie's adopting -- and the baby is on its way. Suddenly, a quiet neighborhood Thanksgiving has turned into a huge event -- and Flora and Ruby are about to get their first cousin!

Sadie is on her way to deliver an elephant to her Great-Aunt Josephine, who lives completely alone and can really use the company.She tries everything from mailing the elephant to boarding a plane, a train, and an alligator to get to her aunt's home. Along the way she meets an array of interesting characters, including an odd postal worker and a gang of bandit monkeys, who all help her get where she is going.This eccentric and hilarious story from Philip C. Stead, the author of the Caldecott-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee and illustrator Matthew Cordell will surprise and entertain from beginning to end.This title has Common Core connections.

Penni and Benni are choosing their perfect, new baby. Thank goodness... help is at hand! Starting a brand new family is an adventure full of surprises! Where do babies come from in the modern, digital world, now that the stork has gone into retirement and the gooseberry bush has wilted? This is a book for new and expecting families and children who want to know where babies come from, without all the gory details! Penni and Benni are very much in love and want to start a new family, but how to go about it?Thanks heavens there is the Special Delivery App where you can choose the perfect baby and have it delivered to your door nine months later! You may have forgotten all about your decision in the meantime, so it might be a bit of a surprise when the doorbell rings!This is the first in the Penni and Benni series from best-selling chaildren's author and illustrator Shoo Rayner.Is it a children's book, or is it really for grown-ups? You decide...The Penni and Benni series explore modern, digital dilemmas with humour, wonderful characters and glorious illustrations

The world is in turmoil in 2014. Fuel costs have rocketed since a major hurricane hit the Houston, Texas oil refineries and a catastrophic terrorist attack has almost completely destroyed Saudi Arabia’s ability to ship crude oil to the world. Middle East stability is non-existent and America has spawned a new sub class citizen called the Rogue. Allegiance and patriotism exists in the minority of America’s citizens. Terrorist have begun to prey on America’s weakness.Jonathan Sprague is a truck driver, a Vietnam Veteran, father of two, grandfather of two and a faithful husband for forty-four years. He is a survivor, a joker, a friend, a comrade in arms, a biker and a bastard when he has to be. This is his story of the Special Delivery he made for America.

One day the doorbell rings. A big brown box is delivered. It's the vacuum cleaner Mother ordered. She is delighted and tries it out right away. But then the doorbell rings again and there on the doorstep is another big box addressed to Mother. What could it be? Mother pokes and prods and tries to guess until finally the secret is revealed--a surprise pop-up of her little boy jumping out of the box. Here is a sweet and simple story about a wise mother who, in playing along with her son's game, reaffirms their warm and loving relationship.