Request free classroom materials and have them mailed to your school or home. Harcourt has available various materials, including kits for Poetry month; an activity kit for Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose; and a Chet Gecko teacher kit. Visit Free for Teachers to request the kits and for more information.

Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie has been named a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book for 2008 by the American Library Association!

Only You by Robin Cruise, illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine and Jazz Baby have been named Highly Commendable titles by the Charlotte Zolotow Award committee. The complete list of Honor Books and Highly Commended titles is available on the Cooperative Children’s Book Center site.

Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars is one of twenty books included in the 2008-2009 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List!

A book trailer for K. L. Going's The Garden of Eve is now online. Also online, Chris Taran's short film based on Saint Iggy.

Bruce Hale has created a book trailer for his new Chet Gecko mystery, Hiss Me Deadly. You can watch the video here.