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Name: My Grandma Lives in Florida
Brand: Ed Shankman
SKU: 9781933212357
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My Grandma Lives in Florida

Journey Around Philadelphia from A to Z

Hello, Aquarium!

On the Loose in Washington, D.C.

The Cods of Cape Cod

Dreaming of New Orleans

Monte Carlo: A Traveler's Journal

Row Houses, Baltimore, Maryland: A Traveler's Journal

Issaquah, Washington: Lined Journal

You Can Be an Expert Traveler: A Traveler's Journal

Cherry Blossoms: A Traveler's Journal

Marseille France: A Traveler's Journal

Streetcar, St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana: A Traveler's Journal

Times Square, New York: A Traveler's Journal

Palisades, New Jersey: A Traveler's Journal

Ipswich

Hapag Fjord Und Polarfahrten: A Traveler's Journal

Mono Lake, California: A Traveler's Journal

Women of the Sea

Nashville, Tennessee: A Traveler's Journal

Africa: A Traveler's Journal

L'Ete Sur La Cote d'Azur: A Traveler's Journal

Made by Hand

La Chaine Du Mont-Blanc: A Traveler's Journal

Sedona, Arizona: A Traveler's Journal

Thanksgiving Pumpkins: A Traveler's Journal

The Islands of Boston Harbor

Yosemite National Park, California: A Traveler's Journal

Innisfree, Milbrook, New York: A Traveler's Journal

Normandie Transatlantique: A Traveler's Journal

Athens Greece: A Traveler's Journal

Yellowstone National Park: A Traveler's Journal

Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.: A Traveler's Journal

Colombo, Ceylon: A Traveler's Journal

Caribbean: A Traveler's Journal

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My Grandma Lives in Florida

9781933212357

$17.99

This sunny, happy, and lovingly humorous story follows a child alligator--who lives in NYC--as he visits his grandma in her Florida home. I love my grandma and grandma loves me, he says, as they visit the beach, and theme parks, and, best of all, walk and talk and enjoy each other's company. Everyone will find something in the story to remind them of their own relationships with beloved grandparents or grandchildren. With bouncing rhymes and colorful illustrations, grandparents, parents and children are sure to love reading this story again and again!

When we go inside, grandma gives me a kiss.

In fact there's no place on my face she will miss

I may wriggle and giggle and grumble and hiss,

But only a grandma can kiss you like this.

Author Ed Shankman and illustrator Dave O'Neill began creating their award-winning children's books in New England, with stories on Boston, Cape Cod, Maine, and Vermont. In 2011 they turned their attention to New Orleans, Louisiana, and in 2013 they travel to the Sunshine State, Florida!

Journey Around Philadelphia from A to Z

9781933212289

$17.95

Next stop, Philadelphia! That's the call from author-illustrator Martha Day Zschock, who has taken children and their delighted parents on Journeys Around Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Chicago, Maine, Nantucket, and Cape Cod since starting this bestselling series in 1999. Zschock is not only a brilliant artist but also a committed educator, whose books are embraced by teachers and principals nationwide. These are far more than alphabet books. Each page is headed by an alliterative sentence that evokes an important theme. For example, Philadelphia's A page, featuring Benjamin Franklin, is headed Aphorisms and advice appear in the almanac. A playful factoid at the bottom of each page expands on the theme. (Did you know that the aphorism Haste makes waste is traceable to Poor Richard, i.e. Franklin?) In each city she visits, Zschock thoughtfully looks beyond the tourist attractions to the community residing there. For example, here the N page explains how Neighborhoods define urban nature. The O page describes how Old Order Amish obey the Ordnung, while the U page celebrates Philadelphia's stop on the Underground Railroad that helped enslaved African Americans escape the South before the Civil War. Now the second leading history destination in the U.S. (after Washington D.C.), Philadelphia is the perfect city for this thoughtful, beautiful series.

Hello, Aquarium!

9781641940320

$9.99

Welcome to the Aquarium! Parent and child sea lions celebrate the wonders of the waterways and oceans in best-selling author-illustrator Martha Day Zschock's Hello! board book series for children. In Hello, Aquarium! join the pair as they spend the day observing and learning about the unique creatures that inhabit our seas. Along the way, you'll encounter manta rays, penguins, sea otters, singing dolphins, and the mighty shark, ending the day with newfound knowledge of our aquatic friends! For ages 2-5. Made in the USA.

On the Loose in Washington, D.C.

9781938700149

$14.95

In 2009, prize-winning Atlantic Online cartoonist created her Where's Waldo?-type bestseller On the Loose in Boston, which depicted the animals from Franklin Park Zoo in Beantown settings from Fenway Park to Faneuil Hall. Stossel's new book follows the animals from the National Zoo as they cavort around our nation's capital from the White House to Capitol Hill to the National Air and Space Museum. Children will have hours of entertainment finding the animals in On the Loose in Washington, DC - whether a monkey at the Library of Congress, a kangaroo at the Supreme Court, or a lion at the National Mall! Over 100 animals are hiding cleverly in favorite DC locations in this colorfully-illustrated rhyming picture book.

The Cods of Cape Cod

9781933212784

$14.99

The team who brought grins to young readers with The Boston Balloonies and I Met a Moose in Maine have created a third charmer about a family of codfish and their friends. According to Shankman's rhyming narrative: The Cods of Cape Cod / Love their summer vacation, / And though they could go / Anywhere in the nation, / They keep coming back / To their favorite location, / 'Cause they know that Cape Cod's / A vacation sensation! The Cods of Cape Cod / Have a house on the beach, / And it's just the right size, / With a fish tank for each. . . . To this colorful fish-friendly house come the Cods' many fishy friends, shrimp comes from Sandwich, bass from Mashpee, swordfish from Chatham, and so on. And boy, do they know how to have fun!

The Islands of Boston Harbor

9781933212852

$14.95

A reissue of Edward Rowe Snow's first book, covering the legends and history of nearly every rock and island in Boston Harbor, including Boston Light and Graves Light. The first (1935) edition resulted from research Snow did at Harvard under the tutelage of the great maritime historian Samuel Eliot Morison. When the 1971 edition of the book was published, a critic for the Boston Post wrote, Mr. Snow has the gift of making his subject vivid and personal in its anecdotal touches . . . It is a volume of chatty yet dignified essays, with many a light touch brought in. This centennial edition contains the complete 1971 text, with annotations by Jeremy D'Entremont to bring the information up to date.