[T]he cause is just, and readers will come away with a firmer understanding that, as the introduction has it, the story of this country's founding is 'everyone's story.'--Booklist

A Junior Library Guild Gold Selection

This book will delight visual learners, history lovers, and trivia enthusiasts. It would also validate the diversity of the United States's heroes, encourage critical thinking, and inspire further research. A solid addition to any library or classroom.--School Library Journal

The founding of America was not accomplished by a handful of people; it required the heart, soul, and grit of an entire nation. Today, we rightfully honor the efforts of the Founding Fathers, but what about everyone else who sacrificed for the cause?

Introducing Forgotten Founders, the inspiring book of stories about the heroic women, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and others who played pivotal roles in America's birth. Make no mistake: these were no historical footnotes. These were brave men and women without whom the war simply could never have been won and the new republic never begun.

Readers will meet

• Sybil Ludington, the sixteen-year-old girl who rode all night to warn of a British attack
• Nancy Hart: the indomitable woman who captured six Loyalist soldiers
• Cuffee Wells Saunders, the talented physician who won his freedom and saved lives serving in the Continental Army
• Phyllis Wheatley, the gifted Black poet whose work was praised by Voltaire and George Washington
• Deborah Sampson, the colonial woman who dressed as a man to enlist in the Continental Army
• Peter Salem, the former slave who became the hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill
• and many more!

Read, learn, and discover in beautiful new ways that America's origin story really is everybody's story.

Fall in love with art the Bushel & Peck way! Explore 150 of the world's greatest works of art--interactively--with flaps, translucent pages, color wheels, and hidden gems on every page.

In museums, we're often told, look with your eyes at famous paintings adorning the walls. But, what if a child could follow their impulse, reach out, and touch a masterpiece! This thrilling, interactive book allows kids of all ages to go beyond the world of sight, exploring art like never before--interacting with da Vinci's Mona Lisa, van Gogh's Starry Night, and many more famous works of art with lift flaps, folding booklets, secret pockets, and other hidden treasures!

Come along on this 3-D journey and discover the secrets of the masters-- their techniques, tools, and inspirations-- and why these works of art are still studied, revered, and cherished to this day.

Featured artists include:

• Vincent van Gogh
• Frida Kahlo
• Gustav Klimt
• Pablo Picasso
• Claude Monet
• Mary Cassat

• Jean-Michel Basquiat

• Georgia O'Keeffe

• and many, many more!

Like this child, readers will want to be like this dad: able to dream big and accomplish anything.--Kirkus Reviews

This creative romp by Lowe follows a father with an apparently boundless capacity for fun, his more levelheaded wife, and their two children....A rollicking celebration of one father's imagination.--Publishers Weekly

He's the most interesting man in the world. He changes diapers just because he likes it. He's counted to infinity--twice! He's stonger than Sasquatch, smarter than Einstein, and he cooks a mean spaghetti with M&Ms for all your bad days.

He's a myth. He's a legend. He's . . . my dad!

Dad: The Man, The Myth, The Legend is an epic--and totally unexaggerated--tale for dads everywhere! Heroic, hilarious, and heartwarming, it's the sweet saga of Dad: protector, provider, and child's best friend.

And it's all true. Right, Dad?

The end includes a page for children to write what makes their own dad a legend.

Isn't it nice to curl up and cuddle

and melt down inside like a big, muddy puddle,

and feel the thumping oompah beat

of someone else's heart and heat?

Everyone knows cuddling can reduce stress levels and release endorphins, but kids know that, most importantly, cuddling is FUN With adorable, hand-painted illustrations and Dr. Seuss-like rhymes and humor, The Cuddle Book is sure to be a bedtime favorite. So snuggle up with this padded board book and let the cuddling commence

Packed with hilarious observations, unusual tips, and the stingiest advice money couldn't buy, TheCheapskate's Handbook is the perfect gag gift for your favorite miser--who might just be you. Skinflint Mifflin Lowe invites fellow cheapskates to come out of the closet in a celebration of all things free, complimentary, pro bono, and if need be, cheap. With advice on everything from avoiding generous impulses to creatively bumming off your neighbors, plus delightful watercolor illustrations, hilarious photographs, and Mifflin's own Miser's Aptitude Test, The Cheapskate's Handbook will have you laughing and saving money at the same time. What a deal!

An imaginative mixed race boy from New York, Howie Kaplinsky dreams of being a cowboy, vividly fantasizing that New York City locations and situations are scenes and situations in the Wild West. With his Cowboy Vision, Howie transforms dogs into coyotes, telephone poles into sequoias, a woman in a fur coat into a grizzly bear, the tall buildings of New York into the Grand Canyon, and Thanksgiving parade floats into an enormous, bizarre stampede. In Cowboy Howie. The Adventure of the Central Park Coyote and Thanksgiving Day Parade, Howie's father sees a report on the TV news about a coyote in Central Park. Howie gets on his BMX bike, imagining it's a pony, and sets off to track the critter down. When the rope from a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade catches him by the belt, Howie flies high over Central Park until he finally comes to the famous statue of Balto, the sled dog. With his Cowboy Vision Howie is sure he's found the Central Park Coyote and lassoes it. In the end, Howie gets on a Central Park carriage and rides off into the sunset - Just the way real cowboys always have. Just the way real cowboys always will.