Tracey Hecht

Bismark and a bat named Bink are playing a game of "best burp." Bismark says his burp is the best. Bink says her burp is better. Tobin thinks both burps are good! When Dawn hears the big burps and asks who is burping, Bismark and Bink blame Tobin! Dawn tells the friends that burps are natural and that blaming each other isn't the way to be your best self. As the story unfolds, readers will delight in an entertaining animal adventure while learning...

"In The Nocturnals: The Hidden Kingdom, animals in the valley start to trip on the crumbling ground beneath them, water disappears, and disembodied voices are heard. Everyone assumes the forest is under an evil spell. However, it's a group of veiled creatures--a chameleon, stick bugs, leaf bugs, and other assorted camouflaged insects--that are upset because they want the valley's recognition for their hard work in preventing a drought. The Nocturnal...

Tobin, Bismark, and Dawn are bored. There's nothing to do! So when Karina the kinkajou comes along, she gives them a lesson on using their imaginations. Soon, the three nocturnal friends are following Karina and the 'sparkle sprite' over rivers, under waterfalls, and to the end of a rainbow.

The Nocturnal Brigade, Tobin, a sweet pangolin, Bismark, a loud-mouthed sugar glider, and Dawn, a serious fox, are playing a game of Chestnuts when Chandler, a conniving chinchilla, challenges Tobin for the title of Chestnut Champion. However, after a series of strange distractions occur, the Brigade begins to suspect that something is not quite right. Chandler is a competitive chinchilla...but could he also be a cheater? -- Adapted from page [4]...

Three unlikely nocturnal animal friends--Dawn the fox, Tobin the pangolin, and Bismark the sugar glider--form a brigade of the night to look into the mysterious disappearance of animals.