When The Library Lights Go Out
by Megan Mc Donald
illustrated by Katherine Tillotson

CLOSED may mean "closed" to you. But for three story-hour puppets, CLOSED means "open for adventure."

At first there are only Rabbit and Lion. Hermit Crab is missing. Where can she be in the library darkness? Find out for yourself when -- magically – only puppets are up and about.

Picture book, 40 pages, September 2005
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, A Richard Jackson Book
0-689-86170-2, Hardcover $16.95

Teaching guide available. 138 Kb

Penguin and Little Blue
by Megan Mc Donald
illustrated by Katherine Tillotson

“Penguin missed his friends. All one million three hundred twenty-eight thousand and forty eight of them.”

Penguin and Little Blue spend every day putting on shows at Water World. Until one day, they find themselves on an airplane, headed for adventure. To their surprise, they land at a hotel in Kansas. Will they ever make it back to the icebergs of home…and their fine-feathered friends of Antarctica?

Picture book, 32 pages, September 2003
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, A Richard Jackson Book
0-689-84415-8, Hardcover $15.95

Teaching guide available. 133 Kb

Night Train
by Carolyn Stutson
illustrated by Katherine Tillotson

From the train’s exciting appearance, until it rolls into the final station, readers will see, hear, and feel everything the young passenger in the story does while riding a train past farm fields and shops, over bridges, and through tunnels at nighttime.

Picture book, 32 pages, September 2002
Roaring Brook Press 0-7613-1598-5, Hardcover $15.95


Nice Try, Tooth Fairy
by Mary W. Olson
illustrated by Katherine Tillotson

Emma asks the Tooth Fairy to return her first tooth so that she can show it to her grandfather. But the Tooth Fairy keeps leaving the wrong one - and a different animal comes to Emma’s room each night to retrieve his tooth! This humorous take of a childhood ritual is sure to elicit lots of gap-toothed smiles

Picture book, 32 pages, September 2000
Simon & Schuster 0-689-82422-X, Hardcover $15.00, Paperback $5.99

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