Lucy Lick-Me-Not and the Day Eaters is the first in a series of fantastic tales about Lucy, a brave little girl with poisonous skin who overcomes strange situations with bizarre beasts, marvelous monsters and curious creatures. The stories are told in verse with beautiful, distinctive illustrations.

Lucy wakes up on her birthday expecting gifts and chocolate cake, but instead she finds the day has completely vanished. When she comes face-to-face with the Day Eaters, the monsters responsible for her birthday’s disappearance, she must think fast and come up with a cunning plan to stop these greedy beasts and get her birthday back before she disappears too.

“In this fanciful picture book, a birthday disappears, and a little girl must get it back.
What if your favorite day just up and disappeared? What if that day was your birthday, never to be celebrated again? Such is Lucy’s dilemma. When she was younger, a frog shot her with a venom dart—thankfully, she was immune to the frog’s poison, but it turned her skin, well, poisonous. This proves to be perilous when the little girl begins to make friends. Soon, she becomes known as Lucy Lick-Me-Not (she’s lost a few kittens along the way). Like any child, Lucy loves her birthday—March 32nd—and she dreams of cake and presents. But it’s not to be so: Lucy wakes up on her birthday to find not presents and balloons, but just any other day—her birthday has vanished. When she comes upon the Day Eaters—the grumpy, colorful monsters responsible for this calendar change—Lucy must think fast in order to get her birthday back. A little dark and plenty humorous, this gem of a picture book will appeal to both kids and grown-ups. Children will appreciate the vibrant illustrations and the heroine’s happy-go-lucky attitude, while adults reading along will chuckle at Lucy Lick-Me-Not’s weirder, darker origin. Carmel’s rhyming prose is frothy and funny—a feat, considering that Carmel is telling the absurd tale of a girl whose skin is poisonous. The rhyming couplets work well, driving the story along while still keeping things lighthearted. Illustrator Burkmar’s drawings are vivacious and alluring, perfectly aligning with the work’s irreverent vibe; the monsters etched on the page are indeed absurd, but certainly not scary enough to frighten away younger readers. This work is the first in a planned Lucy Lick-Me-Not series, and future installments of Lucy’s story will assuredly be welcomed with open arms.
Bad news for kittens. A charming, wildly imaginative introduction to a brave new girl.” Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

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Come and play with Shalu as she teaches about the Indian tradition of Raksha Bandhan and learns about sharing.

Happy Raksha Bandhan is a story about love and tradition. Shalu searches for a Rakhi to buy for her brother. When she is unable to find one, her mother suggests Shalu could make one. Shalu works very hard and proudly gives her brother his special gift. Later, when she sees her brother is no longer wearing his Rakhi, Shalu becomes very sad, until her brother shows her what happened. Shalu not only learns about sharing but also realizes how caring her brother truly is. Happy Raksha Bandhan helps teach children of all ages one of India’s most beautiful traditions as well as important life lessons.

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Hanukkah! follows one family’s celebration of the holiday, from eating latkes and spinning the dreidel, to singing prayers and lighting the menorah. With sweet rhyming text and warm illustrations, this is the perfect was to celebrate the festival of lights.

If, just in case, none of these interests you, answer this multiple-choice question to see if you will love this book: A.) You are capable of laughing and B). Your age is a number between 0 and 150. C.) None of the above. If your answer is C), sorry then, this book may not suit you.

Indulge yourself and any person you love with these 37 hilarious poems and cute hand drawn pictures, which in this current everything-generated-by-computer world look extremely precious. It is definitely a book that will make a great gift and everyone read and read again. Get it today, for the child beside or inside you! And happy holidays to all of you!

Here again comes the holiday season.

Last year’s lights are not out of fashion.

I only miss the flowers and leaves I buried with lugubrious sensation.

Maybe the holiday season was invented to wash away the frustrations.

So let’s grow the joy with extra motivation.

Let’s share the joy with no reservation.

Next year won’t be this year’s duplication.

There will be new flowers, new leaves, new regenerations;

And a new cycle leading to another new holiday season.

Why it is so hard to go to sleep?

Isn’t it just as easy as counting to three?

My eyes say “I feel lonely when I cannot see”.

My brain says “Hum a song so everybody knows they are where they should be.”

My mouth says “How about this one called ‘Lemon Tree’?”

My ears say “Wait till it makes me have to pee.”

My nose says “Why there is something in me and I cannot breathe?”

My hand is reaching,

“Looks like there is some booger I am coming to seize!”

My feet,

As always,

Yell,

“I want to go to Las Vegas, even if I have to cross the sea!”

Oh no! It’s Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, but the Little Christmas Angel is too small to make it to the stable to greet Baby Jesus. She must figure out what to do instead to spread the good news. Find out what she does to share God’s message that “All Children are Good;” first in Bethlehem, and then in your house too, filling up every room with Christmas spirit. She only travels at night, while everyone is asleep, and you never know where you’ll find her the next morning! She keeps the whole family happy and involved in all the days leading up to Christmas.