The Best Birthday Present Ever

It's Bear's birthday and Squirrel wants to give his friend the best birthday present ever! But what do you give the bear who has everything, including the Mallow O'Matic 5000 Marshmallow Canon and the Amazing Pop-Up Castle Tent Which-Looks-Like-A-House-With Two-Floors? Squirrel has just the answer! A stick. Except it's so much more than a stick . . . A funny, warming story of friendship and birthday fun. Would make a perfect gift for anyone -- not just bears! Winner of the 2016 Dundee Picture Book Award.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Nana teaches Nate that the best birthday gift doesn't come in a box. Character concept: Fairness: Listen to others.

The Best Birthday Present Ever – Billy’s Airplane Surprise is a story about a boy named Billy who loves the thought of flying, and for his tenth birthday his parents surprise him with an airplane ride. Before the flight, Billy learns all about airplanes and how they work, as he follows Cap, the pilot, as he performs the preflight inspection. As Cap performs the inspection, he explains what he is looking for and how things work as he proceeds. Billy learns how an airplane can fly and how they can turn in the air. He discovers what flaps and ailerons are and how they work, how the propeller is able to create so much wind, and many other interesting facts. This story is full of fun facts and will help young children understand how airplanes work, while emphasizing safety in an entertaining way.

It is an exciting day for Bird. It is his best friend, Owls, birthday! As Bird searches for a special gift for Owl, he worries whether he can find just the right thing. Knitting Owl a lovely sweater to keep him warm in the winter seems like a great ideauntil Bird cannot decide what size to make it. Creating a painting for Owl seems like an even better ideauntil Bird cannot decide what colors to use. After his friends, Squirrel and Mouse, cannot offer any good suggestions, Bird suddenly comes up with a great idea! Now it is up to his little author friends to create their own ending to his story. In this interactive childrens book, little ones are encouraged to illustrate and imagine the perfect ending for an entertaining tale about a birds determined quest to find a special birthday gift for his very best friend.

A quest for the perfect birthday gift makes for laugh-out-loud fun. “I wanted to get you the greatest present ever,” our narrator says. But somehow, nothing quite worked out. First there were the hand-knitted birthday socks (have you ever tried knitting birthday socks?). Then, a ten-scoop ice cream cone (a disaster to carry), a magic kit (it disappeared, just like magic!), an apple juice-fueled jet pack (just a few kinks to work out). And still our narrator has nothing. Or, maybe there is something here to give after all … Everyone knows it’s the thought that counts, right? Especially when it’s a gift that comes from the heart.

It's Christmas and Bear wants to give his best friend Squirrel an extra special present. So he decides to make him a gift. Except Bear isn't very good at making things. Everything he tries is a disaster. He can't give Squirrel a badly knitted jumper, a terrible painting or a broken rocking chair. But maybe if he puts them together they might turn out to be the best Christmas present ever . . . The Best Christmas Present Ever! by author and illustrator Ben Mantle, is a funny, charming sequel to The Best Birthday Present Ever! The perfect gift for Christmas -- and not just for squirrels!

Saurabh’s birth is celebrated across the town of Konkur, where people rejoice in the arrival of the much-admired Vinod and Shashi Parashars’ first offspring. Soon, their neighbour’s 5-year-old daughter Vidya is entrusted with the responsibility of Saurabh’s daily wellbeing. They grow up together among the secluded trees, hills and narrow roads of the small town, spending much of their time in an abandoned graveyard they discover near their homes. But when Saurabh starts showing signs of trouble, their seemingly idyllic world begins to quickly unravel. As the incidents become more frequent and violent, he is brandished a pariah by the very people who had once held him aloft. Vidya, Shashi and Vinod’s struggle to come to terms with Saurabh’s impulses, becomes the uncomfortable thread that binds them together and leads them to re-evaluate their own lives and relationships. Traversing through the realms of guilt and solitude, A Stick in the Dirt attempts to grapple with the uncomfortable nature of the unknown and with what it means to be misunderstood by those closest to us.

A joyful picture book that celebrates every kid's favorite day of the year, full of adorable art from the illustrator of Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site and I Wish You More. The most important rule is #1: It must be your birthday. After that's been established, a crew of hilarious animals help picture book pros Tom Lichtenheld and Beth Ferry take readers through a joyous romp that covers the most important elements of every year's most essential holiday, including singing; closing your eyes and making a wish; blowing out candles on a cake, then settling into bed and dreaming of your wish coming true.