Helen Kay

An Italian's boy's efforts to train, protect, and name his mischievous little donkey all seem to fail until an accident at the circus accomplishes all three.

The theme of children and childhood, a highly popular subject with the great painters and sculptors of the past, has received comparatively little attention in twentieth-century art. Here, as in so many other respects, the work of Pablo Picasso stands out as a major exception. Picasso's many portraits and other depictions of children constitute one of the most immediately accessible and appealing facets of his extraordinarily varied oeuvre. This fascinating new study by Werner Spies, one of the foremost connoisseurs of Picasso's work, examines the artist's approach to the subject of the child against the background of his turbulent personal life, the development of this restlessly innovative aesthetic thinking, an the general ideas about the significance of childhood and youth that have played such a key role in shaping modern culture. Sumptuously illustrated, and packed with original and stimulating insights, the book offers an enticing introduction to Picasso's magical world of children, and to his visual universe as a whole.

Describes the important day in the life of a baby gibbon when he learns to leap through the trees and find food for himself.

Nikolas doesn't want to admit that he is afraid of the rooster in the henhouse, but he must get an egg somewhere so that Mother can make a pysanka, a decorated Easter egg.

Discusses the physical and behavioral similarities of man and the gibbon, orangoutan, chimpanzee, and gorilla.

Two boys living in a six-family home outside of Rome work to earn money to paint the old house so it looks as nice as a newly constructed one.

When his father goes to bring his sitter for the evening, a little boy imagines all the animals he would like to baby-sit with him such as lions, giraffes, and dolphins.

Describes how the first Teddy Bear stuffed toy originated inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a little bear during a hunt.