The newest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series! In Construction Site Mission: Demolition!, the construction team we all know and love has an exciting job to do—smashing, crushing, sorting, hauling. Ultimately, this picture book is about working together, breaking things down, and cleaning it all up at the end of the day.

Filled with playful rhyming text and vibrant illustrations to inspire cleanup
Features the same beloved trucks and construction site from the original book Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

Teaches teamwork, perseverance, and how to overcome obstacles—and have fun!

Demolition is tough work, but these powerful vehicles are up to the task—and once the job is done, there will be a freshly cleared and tidy construction site ready for building something new. This satisfying story is from the bestselling team behind Construction Site on Christmas Night and Three Cheers for Kid McGear.

More than 3.5 million copies sold in the series
Perfect for kids who love construction and all the machines that come with it
Resonates year-round as a go-to gift for holidays and birthdays for children ages 3 to 5
Add it to the shelf with books like Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? by Brianna Caplan Sayres, Digger, Dozer, Dumper by Hope Vestergaard, and The Goodnight Train by June Sobel.

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A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
In the second book of this lauded series, Fox and Chick are off on three new adventures involving a boat ride, a mysterious box, and an early morning trip to see the sunrise. Despite the antics ensuing from their opposite personalities, the contradictory duo always manages to find a happy center. This early chapter book in comic-book form is perfect for emerging readers, while the sweet and funny characters and captivating art hold appeal for picturebook audiences as well.

Fox & Chick: The Quiet Boat Ride

The perfect baby present and self-purchase for just the right moment in a baby and parent's life. Introducing Beginning Baby, a new line of novelty board books and gifts from the Chronicle Children's group. Based on over 30 years of distinctive, innovative, bestselling, and award-winning children's publishing, Beginning Baby is the ultimate series for new parents and their children. We've taken our experience as creative professionals, moms, dads, aunts, uncles, siblings, and friends to create a line of books and gifts that we would want to share with the little ones in our lives. Every Beginning Baby book, toy, or game features simple icons to denote which developmental milestones it supports, along with the intended age range. With its distinctive yet accessible art, lovable characters, and educational concepts, Beginning Baby is designed to make growing and learning as easy as playing and dreaming—and will become the must-have gift or self-purchase for every baby's first library. Because a strong beginning sets the groundwork for a bright start! Smile, Baby! 's playful text introduces babies to their faces and asks them to find their nose, ears, and eyes in the embedded mirror.

DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE: Every book is conceived and written to address milestones in a baby's life, from fine motor skills to shape recognition and emotional awareness.
TEACHES PARTS OF THE FACE AND MOTOR CONTROL: Using the embedded mirror, parents and babies can find different parts of the face and touch their noses, pat their cheeks, and blow baby a kiss.
CUTE CHARACTERS: Evoking Richard Scarry's classic characters but for much younger readers, these adorable characters—from an artistic llama to a musical elephant and gardener octopus—teach toddler concepts while promoting socialization and community.
BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED FOR DISCERNING EYES: Bright, peppy colors and patterns make this series of books attractive for both babies and adults!
MORE TITLES COMING: Beginning Baby will launch with 3 titles and publish 2–3 titles per season through 2022.

Perfect for:

Parents of babies and toddlers
Grandparents
Uncles and aunts
Teachers and educators at daycare and early childhood centers
Anyone looking for the perfect baby shower gift

Smile, Baby!

"Visual and tactile elegance that will appeal to eyes and hands." — The New York Times
The Touchwords board book series brings essential concepts to life for babies and toddlers
Sturdy and interactive, these board books combine touch, sight, and sound to help children experience and learn about the world. By allowing the child to trace the raised letters of a simple word and then trace its corresponding object, these books foster critical early reading and language skills, all while delighting readers with bright and eye-catching illustrations.
With Touchwords: Clothes, build vocabulary and explore the fundamentals of what we wear – whether it's a frilly party dress or a pair of ripped jeans.
Perfect for gifting at baby showers: This exquisitely designed board book is a beautiful addition to any baby's shelf and provides an educational element as well. "Fun for fingers, eyes, and minds." — Publishers Weekly, starred review

Touchwords: Clothes

Notebooks made for creatives by creatives. Introducing the Go-To Notebook: the only notebook you'll ever need. When Chronicle Books and Mohawk teamed up to create their ideal notebook, the Go-To was born, made with the highest quality of materials and designed with productivity in mind. Features include: 
- Superfine paper by Mohawk—the finest printing paper made today, milled in the USA for more than 80 years 
- Project planning/tracking pages, as well as dotted or lined pages 
- A pocket for storage 
- A silk ribbon marker 
- Lay-flat binding 
- Tactile cloth case The Go-To is the ultimate notebook for getting things done, and is sure to help makers, thinkers, and dreamers do their best work.

Go-to Notebook With Mohawk Paper, Sage Blue Lined

Notebooks & Journals

This retro-looking journal from celebrated UK–based design studio Sukie will inspire journalers to log all kinds of adventures. Featuring kraft and glassine pockets for tucking away mementos, plus a silk-screened cover and 100% recycled paper interiors, this journal is a tactile treasure in the hand.

Sukie Travel Journal: Coastal Getaway

Sometimes a bad idea is a
good idea in disguise. This eyecatching,
double-sided journal
inspires creative thinking and
mischievous ideas and encourages
jotters to write it all downâ
the best and the worst! After
all, even the craziest ideas can
transform into something big.

Good Ideas / Bad Ideas Journal

Birds & Words is a vintage collection of 60 illustrations of birds and 60 humorous stories about each one. This book is a lovely reissue of the charming and highly collectible 1972 classic by Charley Harper. Written and illustrated by the renowned illustrator. Harper's style has been referred to as "minimal realism."

Charley Harper was a prolific mid-century modern artist based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Each bird was hand-painted in Harper's signature style.

Birds & Words brings together the beloved illustrator's gifts as both an artist and a writer.

Charley Harper has illustrated numerous books, including the notable The Golden Book of Biology. This new version of this vintage gem features a cloth-bound cover with a tipped in image alongside the original vintage typography.

A great book for fans of mid-century modern aesthetics, and for designers, bird lovers, minimal art, and those who adore all things Charley Harper
Giftable to a wide age range—from children to retirees, Charley Harper's charming illustrations and sweet stories appeal to all
Add it to the collection of books like Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life by Todd Oldham and Charley Harper and Smithsonian Handbooks: Birds of North America by Fred J. Alsop III

Charles Harper’s Birds & Words

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Record your ideas and flights of fancy with this luxe notebook collection from artist Nathalie Lété. With gold foil on their covers and gilded edges, these two lined notebooks feature delightful paintings of cute cats and ritzy rabbits. BELOVED FRENCH ARTIST: Nathalie Lété's distinct aesthetic has attracted a strong worldwide following. She works in a variety of mediums, including illustration, painting, ceramics, and textiles. She has collaborated with beloved brands and stores including Gucci, H&M, Anthropologie, Uniqlo, Monoprix, Issey Miyake, and more. CLASSY PACKAGE: 2 paperback notebooks, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 96 lined pages each, woodfree FSC-certified paper, bellyband, and polybagged. Beautifully illustrated with full-color artwork on the front and back covers and gold-gilded edges, these notebooks will make a statement on your desk, in a meeting, or in class. Once you fill each notebook, they act as a beautiful keepsake item. GREAT GIFT: For animal lovers, creatives, writers, artists, and students looking for distinctive and delightful notebooks. Perfect for: 
- Nathalie Lété fans 
- Stationery collectors 
- Writers, artists, creatives 
- Students 
- Animal and nature lovers

Fancy Fauna Notebook Set

This stationery is anything but stationary! Animate your ideas with these illustrated notepads that also function as flipbooks, ready to fill slow moments with flipping delight! Flip through and watch as lovable dogs splash and doggy-paddle across the pages of this handy pocket-sized notepad that also doubles as an animated flipbook. With plenty of space to write above the adorable animation, Dog Days is ready for writing, doodling, and dreaming of days lounging in the sunshine.

Flipbook Notepad: Dog Days

This journal celebrates the words and artwork of MARCH, the New York Times bestseller about the life of Congressman John Lewis. Fully illustrated, the MARCH Journal encourages a new generation of activists to dream, plan, and fight for the causes they care about. Contents include: - An introduction by Andrew Aydin - Pages to record contact information for government officials - Inspirational words and artwork from MARCH throughout

March Journal

Calling all Master Builders in training! This deluxe guided notebook is built exclusively for LEGO® fans. Filled with LEGO facts, building prompts, quotes, and goal trackers, it is designed to organize your ideas and spark creative thinking every day. The LEGO® Master Builder Notebook is the perfect place to write, sketch, plan, and dream up new ideas on your journey to becoming a Master Builder! With three unique sections of lined, grid, and dotted pages, there is plenty of room for all of your important notes and drawings. The deluxe cover features an internal spinning wheel so you can choose one of three titles to suit your mood. Just like the LEGO brand itself, this guided notebook offers just the right mix of structure and open-ended play.

CUSTOMIZABLE COVER: Choose your favorite title to set the mood for journaling. Titles include: Warning! Builds in Progress; I’d Rather Be Building; and Master Builder in Training.
GUIDED CONTENT: This notebook highlights interesting LEGO facts and terms and offers building prompts and open-ended lists to fill in. Each section features a goal, habit, or mood tracker to help keep you inspired and on task.
FOR ALL LEGO FANS: This is the go-to guided notebook for LEGO fans of all skill levels—whether you’re sketching a new minifigure design, making a set wish-list, or just taking notes and dreaming of your next build.

Perfect for:

LEGO fans from age 12+
Anyone who loves the LEGO brand and wants to spark their creative thinking
People who enjoy journaling

LEGO, the LEGO logo, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2021 The LEGO Group. All rights reserved.

Lego Master Builder Notebook

Both colorful and delightful, this set of 100 postcards showcases the unique and dreamy photography of Jimmy Marble, a Los Angeles–based award-winning photographer, director, and designer. The fashion and lifestyle images featured here evoke a distinct, youthful, sunny Southern California aesthetic. One hundred unique images, some horizontal and some vertical, are packaged in a chunky keepsake box with a ribbon.

- Postcards feature fresh and colorful photography 
- Compelling images with a distinct sense of pattern and color 
- Features playful and fashion-forward imagery
Fans of Dream Baby Dream and Sun.Skate.Seventies will love these postcards.

It's Cool: 100 Postcards

Anger: It's not always pretty, but sometimes it's pretty damn justified. Artist Martha Rich offers readers a healthy outlet for their frustration in The Furious Notebook, a guided journal made for ranting, cursing, and channeling righteous indignation into necessary action.

The Furious Notebook

This trio of notebooks brings the evergreen charm of succulents to everyday notes and to-do lists. Each sleek journal features gorgeous photography of succulents on the cover, a stitched spine, a foil-stamped cover, and lined interior pages.

Succulent Garden Notebook Collection

200 incredible women. 126 hours of interviews. 16,000 photographs. 5 questions. A snapshot of female life around the globe: This collection of interviews with 200 women from a variety of backgrounds takes you on a journey that’s heartbreaking and uplifting. Each woman shares her unique reply to the same five questions: What really matters to you?, What brings you happiness?, What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?, What would you change if you could?, and Which single word do you most identify with? The variety of answers offers gifts of empowerment and strength – inviting us to bring positive change at a time when so many are fighting for basic freedom and equality. Interviewees include:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Jane Goodall, conservation and animal welfare activist
Margaret Atwood, author and winner of The Booker Prize
Roxane Gay, author and feminist
Renée Montagne, former host of NPR's Morning Edition
Alicia Garza, activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter
Alfre Woodard, award-winning actor and activist
Marian Wright Edelman, head of the Children's Defense Fund
Lydia Ko, professional golfer and Olympian
Dolores Huerta, labor activist, community organizer, and co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association
Alice Waters, chef, author, and food rights advocate
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author and Macarthur Foundation fellow

Each interview is accompanied by a photographic portrait, resulting in a volume that is compelling in word and image—and global in its scope and resonance. This landmark book is published to coincide with an interactive website, building on this remarkable, ever-evolving project. 200 Women reminds us that there are no ordinary women.

Makes a wonderful birthday, graduation, or going away gift for every woman to encourage personal growth.
Great coffee table book to spark conversations about powerful and inspirational women around the globe.

200 Women

This stationery is anything but stationary! Animate your ideas with these illustrated notepads that also function as flipbooks, ready to fill slow moments with flipping delight! Bring the party to your notes as you flip through this stylish notepad that doubles as an animated flipbook. With plenty of writing space above the animation and a pocket-friendly size, nothing can keep this unicorn down! This handy notepad will make even dull notes and to-dos a celebration.

Flipbook Notepad: Disco Party

Go-to Notebook With Mohawk Paper, Brick Red Blank

Write it, list it, live it! Each page of this colorful journal provides space to make a plan, dream, organize and make the most of life.

Carpe Diem Journal

Go-to Notebook With Mohawk Paper, Midnight Blue Dotted

This sparkling celebration of accessories from the author of the 50 Ways to Wear series offers top-notch tips for rocking statement pieces—think earrings, bracelets, hats, belts, purses, and more—in unexpected ways. Learn how to accessorize any outfit for a snowy day, a fancy event, a job interview. With fun illustrations that show how to achieve each look, advice on different ways to wear each featured item and style, and tips on mixing and matching different items, patterns, and prints, 50 Ways to Wear Accessories is a must-have resource to optimize any wardrobe and head out the door with panache.

50 Ways To Wear Accessories

The staycation of travel journals, this is a place to celebrate the beauty in the everyday objects all around us no matter where we are. Creative prompts such as "seek out the oldest thing within sight and sketch it here" invite users to draw, write, and delight in all the details they discover when they're encouraged to rejoice in the world around them.

Extraordinary Objects Observer's Journal

Go-to Notebook With Mohawk Paper, Persimmon Orange Dotted

Complete with an adorable sticker sheet to track the journaler's moods and progress, this colorful journal will keep writers on track and smiling all day.

The Small Object Today Is Super Journal

Best in Show is a collection of photographs of well-groomed and award-winning dogs by New York City–based photographer Dolly Faibyshev. The images from the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and beyond focus on the unique—and often humorous—relationship between each dog and their handler. Dolly Faibyshev focuses on kitsch, irony, and the larger than life human and canine characters that make up Best in Show. The result is a colorful, vibrant, campy, and satirical take on this specific slice of Americana. 
- The colorful, closely cropped juxtapositions of each coiffed canine contestant and their dedicated human are both humorous and charming. 
- Sure to delight fans of all breeds of dogs 
- A universal and ideal gift for all canine lovers with a sense of humor Best in Show captures a specific subculture of dog devotees primarily from the infamous Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York. 
- A perfect gift for anyone who is completely and totally obsessed with dogs and the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show 
- Photographers and contemporary art lovers will also love this celebration of Dolly Faibyshev's work 
- Great for fans of The Dogist: Photographic Encounters with 1,000 Dogs by Elias Weiss Friedman, Dogs by Lewis Blackwell and Tim Flach, and Underwater Dogs by Seth Casteel

Best In Show

This journal has teeth! Featuring lined pages that make it easy to record daily anxieties and personal victories, this eye-catching package, iridescent with foil, brims with sassy phrases like "Don't Tell Me to Smile" and "Get Off My Back" alongside feisty sharks who are strong, independent, and only slightly self-conscious about it.

Don't Tell Me To Smile Shark Flexi Journal

Go-to Notebook With Mohawk Paper, Persimmon Orange Blank

This set of three notebooks features an assortment of richly colored birds painted by artist Jane Kim, selected from her Wall of Birds mural at the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology. With a variety of striking birds on each cover, these notebooks are perfect for any bird lover.

Birds In Color Notebook Collection

This reader’s journal celebrates diverse books and is the ultimate reader’s journal for booklovers.
This booklover’s ultimate journal is filled with the best literary-inspired art celebrating the works of those often underrepresented in the literary world. Encased in a durable hardcover with rounded edges and a ribbon marker, this journal has sections for recording and rating read books (with fill-in star ratings!), space for documenting thoughts, and lists of suggested to-reads.
PERFECT FOR LITERARY LOVERS: A wonderful gift for Goodreads users, voracious readers, booklovers, aspiring writers, book club members, librarians, and English teachers as well as fans of BIBLIOPHILE, Jane Mount, and Ideal Bookshelf.
Perfect as an add-on to BIBLIOPHILE DIVERSE SPINES for a birthday or holiday gift, teacher gift, or a self-buy to treat yourself.
EASY GIFT: This beautiful notecard set is packed with colorful illustrations by beloved author Jane Mount (author of BIBLIOPHILE) and is a perfect gift for any booklover.
DISCOVER UNSUNG LITERARY HEROES: The authors dive deep into a wide variety of genres, such as Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Sci-Fi, and more to bring the works of authors of color to the fore.
EXPERT AUTHORS: Using their keen knowledge for all things literary, Jamise Harper (founder of the Diverse Spines book community) and Jane Mount (author and illustrator of BIBLIOPHILE) have curated expertly devised bookstacks representing a myriad of underrepresented voices.
Perfect for: bookish people; literary lovers; students; Mother’s Day shoppers; stocking stuffers; followers of #DiverseSpines; Jane Mount and Ideal Bookshelf fans; Reese's Book Club and Oprah’s Book Club followers; people who use Goodreads.com; readers wanting to expand/decolonize their book collections; people interested in uplifting BIPOC voices; grads and students

Bibliophile Diverse Spines Reader's Journal

This vintage-inspired journal is tailor-made for journalers to celebrate and collect things they love, with special paper pockets interspersed throughout its pages for stashing memorabilia. With 100% recycled paper interiors and a silkscreened cover, this journal is a tactile treasure worthy of its beloved contents.