Ian Lendler

"The Stratford Zoo is like any other zoo... until closing time! That's when the animals come out of their cages to perform Shakespeare's greatest works. They might not be the best actors, but they've got heart (also fangs, feathers, scales, and tails). Please find your seats and get ready for the funniest (and furriest) performance ever of Shakespeare's most romantic tragedy!"--Page 4 of cover.

When Littletown Library is destroyed by a tornado, it seems like book-loving Nia is the only one who cares; so she starts the "new free library" under the tree where she used to read, and writes out familiar stories and rhymes that are just a little bit wrong, and encourages the people who check them out to correct them--until soon the whole of Littletown is filled with people reading and writing books.

"Dinosaurs existed. That's a fact we accept today. But not so long ago, the concept that these giant creatures could have roamed Earth millions of years before humans was unfathomable. People thought what we know as dinosaur bones were the bones of giant humans. Of large elephants. Of angels, even. So, how did we get from angel wings to the T-Rex? The First Dinosaur tells the story of the idea of dinosaurs, and the chain of fossil discoveries and...