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In rhyming text, naughty dinosaurs learn the importance of having good manners, saying "please" and "thank you," and never, ever making a mess.

A scarecrow happily dances away from his post one windy night, until a child's prayer teaches him how important he is to the farm.

Illustrations and rhyming text explore some of the things that dinosaurs might do when they are angry--and how they should control their tempers. "R-O-A-R! What happens when little dinosaurs get mad, mad, MAD? And how do they take a deep breath and calm down? When little dinosaurs get angry, they sometimes misbehave. Readers will laugh aloud and relate to all the dinosaur-sized antics, from stomping and yelling to tantrums and meltdowns. But after...

Everyone knows the legend of Johnny Appleseed, the man from Massachusetts who planted apple trees all the way to California. But the true story of Johnny Appleseed, or John Chapman, is even greater than the legend.

In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.