Joan Holub

Shampoodle

by Joan Holub & Tim Bowers

Reading with help

It's picture day at the dog park. But before the first photo can be taken, an exuberant pack of pups needs a bit of grooming. So they’re off to Shampoodle, the local pet salon, where the...

Who Was Jim Henson?

by Joan Holub & Nancy Harrison

Jim Henson broke into television with a five-minute puppetry segment when he was only a freshman in college. He created puppets like none ever seen before, with expressive fabric faces and rod-controlled arms....

Ballet Stars

by Joan Holub & Shelagh Mcnicholas

From ballet class to rehearsal for the big show to the final curtesies—budding ballet stars show emergent readers each step and pirouette along the way! This Step 1 story has big type and easy words, rhyme...

Who Was Johnny Appleseed?

by Joan Holub & Anna DiVito

The perfect biography to "bite into" at the start of a new school year! Children are sure to be fascinated by the eccentric and legendary Johnny Appleseed, a man who is best known for bringing apple trees to...

Who Was Marco Polo?

by Joan Holub & John O'Brien

Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the...

Who Was Babe Ruth?

by Joan Holub & Nancy Harrison

Just in time for baseball season!

Babe Ruth came from a poor Baltimore family and, as a kid, he was a handful. It was at a reform school that Babe discovered his talent for baseball, and by the age of nineteen,...