Joe Mathieu

Oscar's pet worm Slimey describes some of the many subjects that can be found in books.

A man's barbecue is interrupted when he is visited by a bevy of dogs from the neighborhood.

How do you find a missing dinosaur who’s large and green and likes to roar? When a little boy’s dinosaur decides to play hide-and-seek, he is surprisingly difficult to track down. Veteran illustrator Joe Mathieu’s dinomite illustrations and Jon Surgal’ s saur-ing verse will have kids roaring with laughter as they romp through this funny rhyming Beginner Book.
Beginner Books are fun, funny, and easy to read!...

Sally and Nick are playing in the rain—and getting really muddy! So when the Cat in the Hat offers to show them how animals get clean, the kids are keen to find out. But can Sally and Nick really get rid of the mud by taking dust baths, like a sparrow? Or by licking themselves, like a lion? And where are they going to find an oxpecker to pick it off them, like a hippo has? (Besides, oxpeckers tickle!) Maybe there's a better way for a kid to...

Learn why fireflies flash their lights in this Glow-in-the-Dark Pictureback with stickers based on the hit PBS Kids show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
Sally and Nick are making shadow shapes when the batteries in their flashlight conk out. Luckily, the Cat knows where they can get some light: from his friend Shimmer, a firefly! But it turns out that Shimmer needs some help of her own: her friend Glimmer is...

Fans of PBS Kids' The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! are in for a spring-themed treat!
In Thump! (the first of two stories in this Deluxe "2 in 1" Book), the Cat and Co. learn how rabbits communicate warnings to each other by thumping their feet on the ground, and in The Lost Egg, when Sally and Nick find a strange egg in the nest of a bowerbird, they discover not only that birds lay different kinds of eggs in...