Martha Simpson

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Happy Like Soccer

Maribeth BOELTS | FICTION, Mar 01, 2012

K-Gr 3—Nothing makes Sierra happier than playing soccer, especially now that she has been picked for a new team where she gets to play on a smooth field instead of the ragtag lot near her home...

Otto the Book Bear

Katie CLEMINSON | FICTION, Feb 01, 2012

PreS-Gr 2—Otto resides in a picture book, and he is happiest when it is being read...

The Really Awful Musicians

John MANDERS | FICTION, Feb 01, 2012

PreS-Gr 2—When a king decides he can't stand the racket the royal musicians make, he bans music from the kingdom and feeds all the musicians to the crocodiles...

Dinosaur Dig!

Penny DALE | FICTION, Dec 01, 2011

PreS—Dale's counting book follows a formula designed to appeal to preschoolers: put dinosaurs in trucks and add a lot of noisy sound effects...

Juba This, Juba That

Helaine BECKER | FICTION, Dec 01, 2011

PreS-K—This modern-day version of a traditional African chant imagines an adventure that happens one evening when a dark-skinned boy follows a yellow cat to the fair...