Bøger af Douglas Evans

"Only a bedbug knows how it goes while you doze."That's the motto of the three bedbugs who live in Irene's four-poster bed. One night, when the moon is particularly bright, Irene meets this helpful trio, who tell her about her nighttime visitors--the Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, the Nice Dream Man, Night Mare, and the Boogeyman--and how the bedbugs protect her from the mayhem, mischief, and mishaps that can happen while she sleeps.Scan the QR codes to hear the songs.

"A fable about finding your bliss"Our Teacher, age ten, rescues a sea lion on a beach in Oregon. As a reward, the sea lion tells Our Teacher about the magical Thinking Cap, a hat when worn reveals a person's calling. In pursuit of the cap, Our Teacher travels around the world and learns his true purpose, what he was meant to do with his life. Along the way, he discovers the attributes he has that will help make him a great teacher. This edition includes 25 AI illustrations. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on links to hear the songs.

They perch daily on streetlights at the corner of College and Ashby. Estelle is polite and tidy, while Del puts the "pig" in pigeon. Somehow these two birds manage to get along. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on link to hear songs.

What's a twist? A short silly story with a surprise or twist at the end.

What's a twist? A short silly story with a surprise or twist at the end.

The microchips have taken control!Why have the microchips in Deacon's neighborhood-chips in traffic signals, ATM machines, mobile phones, and cars--- started to communicate with Deacon? Do they just want to help him out, to get free ice cream, good grades, or the occasional day off from school? No, the Chip Network wants much more from Deacon and many other children in Silicon Valley whose parents work for high-tech companies.

Captain John Paul Jellyfish has led his fleet across the Atlantic Ocean to America. He doesn't like what he finds there. Follow the adventures of the bravest jellyfish to ever sail the Seven Seas. His fleet's challenge? To rid the Eastern seaboard of the pesky Portuguese men-of-war and make the beaches safe again for summer swimming! A Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on the link to hear the songs.

The Elevator Family again! The tight-knit Wilson family hikes up Mt. Baldy and stays in a cozy cabin on top of a tall steel tower. What a view! And what friendly neighbors they find staying in the wilderness around them! Only the best!Book with Tunes. Scan the QR codes and hear the Elevator Family songs.

In a small cozy cottage on the cold South Pole lives a tall, skinny man with a bushy black beard. His name is Anta Claus. One Christmas Eve, ten-year-old Carol Snow sneaks in Anta's black sleigh and travels with him, delivering appropriate gifts to children on Anta's Naughty List. Along the way, Carol learns what it takes to switch from Anta's list onto the Nice List that Santa Claus carries. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on the links to hear the songs.

Meet Miss Biggypedagog, the new two-hundred foot tall teacher for the third-grade class out in the Portable.

Miss Biggypedagog, the two-hundred foot third-grade teacher, continues her first year of teaching the class out in The Portable. During the winter the third-graders play jumbo soccer and take a trip to the ocean. In the spring they have a super-size visitor--Miss Biggy's Uncle Everest from The Highlands.

The cozy sequel to The Elevator Family. This time the tight-knit Wilson family stays in a toll booth on a bridge crossing the Mississippi River. Fantabulous accommodations! The best place west of the Mississippi, east of the Mississippi, and above the Mississippi. So why are all the people rushing past? What is more, why do all the drivers hand the Wilsons money?Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or clink the links to hear the Elevator Family songs.

How come there are so many unanswered questions about schools? How come school buses are yellow? How come the school year is nine months long? How come there are more women than men teachers? Now come and read how come.

A lipogram book for boys and girls! This book contains not a solitary E! A financial crisis! Cut costs! With dough running low and programs costing too much at his school, Principal Ouia insists that his staff and pupils must stop using that most popular non-consonant that follows d and is prior to f. That common writing symbol was also cut from this book!

Walter, Winona, Winslow, and Whitney Wilson take the train to the Twin Cities to attend the SMALL (the Society of Minimal and Living Little) Conference. They find the snow and ice-covered lakes to their liking. The small Warming Hut beside the ice-skating rink is a perfect place for them to stay. Better yet, how about the tiny hut they find on the ice of Lake Minnetonka?Book with Tunes. Scan the QR codes to hear the Elevator Family songs!

By the year 2050, scientists say the entire Arctic region including the North Pole will be free of ice. Only one person, fourth-grader Tom Tucker, has asked the question no one else has asked. What will happen to Santa Claus? Santa is in trouble. Global warming has wreaked havoc upon his North Pole home. The toy factory roof leaks. The reindeer barn is flooded, and the snow is too slushy for safe sleigh take-offs. In order to be ready for Christmas Eve, Santa has no choice. He must move. His helpers will build a ship, the Arctic Ark, and from there Captain Claus can prepare for Christmas. A-ho-ho-hoy!Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click the links to hear the songs!

Meet the Specials, the school superheroes and supersheroes--Ace +, Jump Rope, Spitball, Noise, and Gold Star. We're glad they are at our school. This time the Specials do battle with Dr. TT, a former school principal who attempts to take control of the local school board and become School Board Emperor.

Meet the Specials, the school superheroes and supersheroes--Ace+, Jump Rope, Spitball, and Noise. We're glad they are at our school. This time, the Specials match wits with Bad, a disgruntled teenager named Bad who attempts to take over the school with his banned of masked delinquents--Graffito, Class Clown, Tease, and Out-Of-Order

London calling at Christmastime! A display window at Harrods Department Store! A red telephone booth! The London Eye! All those small, cozy places for the Wilson family to stay in! But after some royal heroics at the Tower of London, they end up spending Christmas Eve in a guardhouse outside Buckingham Palace. Only the best!Book with Tunes. Scan the QR codes to hear the Elevator Family songs.

The rousing sequel to Apple Island, or the Truth About Teachers. The Thinking Cap has been stolen and Bradley Zimmerman, by request of the God of Education on Mt. Academy, must take another long and perilous trip to try and retrieve it.

The tightly-knit Elevator Family-Walter, Winona, Winslow, and Whitney Wilson-along with their scruffy, gray dog, Cat, have been invited to the Big Apple to appear on the Not Too Late Show! Where do they choose to stay? In perhaps the most famous elevator of all, the one that goes up to the eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building.Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes to hear the songs.

Global warming has wreaked havoc upon Upper Poyntz Colony. The Pixel Corps of Discovery-one millimeter-tall Speck, Dotty, Bitty, Nano, and Grandpa Grain Pixel-is sent to find the source of the excess CO2 in the atmosphere. Days later, the Pixel's plane crash lands in a strange world, on the desktop of fourth-grader Faith Singer. To escape, the family must make a long, perilous journey...through the inside of Faith's desk and out the bottom. Meanwhile, Faith and her classmate Fulton Black discover the Pixels living in Faith's pink pencil sharpener on her desktop, They must hide the micro-family from their nefarious science teacher, Quinten Carbo, who wishes to gain fame and fortune by experimenting on them.When the two fourth-graders learn about the Circle, six colonies of mini-scientist who could hold the solution to Earth's climate change problem, they know their mission is even more critical.

Long, low and cozy! Just the type of lodging the Wilson family prefers to stay in. And an added bonus! Each evening people come visit them while a baseball game takes place right outside their front door. Play ball!Book with Tunes. Scan the QR codes to hear the songs!

Class out of control? Will no regular substitute dare enter that classroom? Time to press the red button under the office clock and summon Miss Subway, the substitute of last resort.

NASA asks the Wilson family to stay six months at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Mojave Desert. The Wilsons will simulate living on the red planet to see how well a family can work together in a small confined environment. No sweat for this tight-knit family. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes to hear the songs.

Meet Blanco, the Last Lighthouse Giant. Ages ago, giants arrived on the coastlines of the world. They built tall round houses on the dark headlands. Out the high windows they shone bright lanterns to guide ships safely past their homes. Blanco is the last of the lighthouse giants. From sunset to sunrise he shines his fish-oil lantern from his house on Cape Humbug, to aid steamer ships along the Oregon coast. Jenny Hughes, age ten, is Blanco's friend. Jenny lives with her father, Jacob, on the Hughes Dairy Ranch below Cape Humbug. Each day Jenny and her father bring Blanco a kettle of clam chowder for his daily meal. Jenny teaches Blanco reading and writing. In turn, the lighthouse giant teaches Jenny, who wishes to become a marine scientist, the ways of the ocean and its creatures.Blanco's job is threatened when a conman, Professeur Poisson, arrives in Port Beaver, hoping to replace the giant with a first-order Fresnel lens and modern machinery. Can Jenny help save the giant's lighthouse job? A tough task considering the entire town is against her. Book-with-Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on links to hear the songs.

Every kid's dream is to be named Most Valuable Player. But how many ever dream that the game is a race around the world (no flying allowed) in just forty days? That's the challenge Adam faces in the Great Global Game. As the player for the Magellan Voyage Project, he competes against others for a four-million-dollar prize! Trackers with blowguns and a nefarious baron don't make things easy.