NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author...

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

Come join the fun as students take a submarine school bus on a field trip to explore the ocean deep!

A wordless picture book featuring a sandcastle that is surprisingly full of life.

A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost.

Jack and the boy receive a late-night visit from unique guests who love to play.

A wordless picture book that shows what the figures on road signs do when no one is around to see them.

Depicts the adventures of an infant girl and her canine babysitter one day while Mother is out.

When a boy and his dog go for a hike, the boy trips on a fossil, and it comes to life, revealing an ancient plant. The boy is so intrigued that he breaks two more fossils that come to life a dragonfly and a pteranodon. When these prehistoric creatures collide with present reality, the boy must figure out a way to make things go back to normal.