Marie Hall Ets

Privé-detective Max Winter gaat op verzoek van de moeder op zoek naar de onbekende die het hart ontving van haar verongelukte dochter.

Drawings and text describe a baby from conception to its first smile.

One night while the house is asleep, the mice go upstairs and discover all Johnny's toy cars, trains and planes--but before the night is over they hope there will never be automobiles for mice.

A lonely little Mexican boy gets into too much mischief until he goes to the Children's Center where he learns to play with other children and to speak English, and ultimately helps to bring his mother home.

Mr. Penny's lazy barnyard pets steal into a neighbor's garden and wreak havoc, but when their good master is threatened by the neighbor, they mend their ways and work hard laying eggs, giving milk, plowing the garden and cutting the grass.

When the animals discover that Cow has only grass to serve them at her birthday party everyone leaves--except Horse, Goat, and Lamb who stay at Cow's party the rest of the summer.

A little girl goes to the meadow to play, but each animal she tries to catch runs away from her--until she sits still by the pond, and they all come back.

A naughty little automobile drives down the road and runs over anything that stands in its way, until it meets a train.

Sketches and brief text describe how we convey our feelings and desires without using words.

Mr. Penny cares for a chimpanzee and a bear during the winter and by county fair time in the spring these two circus animals have taught his own barnyard pets many tricks.

"Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, 'Put your money where your mouth is'. Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice. In "The Two of Us", Sheila relived her life with John Thaw - years packed with love and family, delight and despair. And then she looked ahead."--Jacket.

During one day a little boy hears such sounds as a jay bird scolding, oak leaves swaying, and a mother humming.

A cat, a dog, and a mouse live together as enemies with a philosophical cobbler, but they become friends when they work together to rid their home of the cobbler's fussy sister and her silly talking parrot.

"You mustn't feel bad because you are not going to the fair," Mr. Penny said to Limpy, his faithful old horse. "You know about judges. They won't look at old fellows like us. But without you we wouldn't have any garden at all. And without you to pull the cart we couldn't get our things to the fairgrounds." But Limpy was sad. He thought the bandage on his lame leg made him look like a race horse, and, more than anything else, he wanted to run on the race track.

The combined efforts of several animals can not pull an elephant from a well until a mouse adds his strength.

Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

Written for children, the story follows and describes the growth of a baby through its many embryonic changes to birth and the baby's first smile.

A homesick seal, released by an aquarium keeper into a lake instead of being killed as ordered, leads to rumors of a great sea monster.

A young boy finds in the wind a playmate of many moods: one that can sail boats, fly kites, blow dirt, and turn umbrellas inside out.