A Big golden book

Easy-to-read text and colorful drawings introduce a variety of cars and trucks which have special purposes.

First Published in 1948, it includes some of MWB's very first stories published in "Another here and now storybook" in 1938, an anthology by Lucy Sprague Mitchell. Also includes ; The Wonderful Room, The Steam Roller, The Good Little Bad Little Pig and other stories that were later published as picture books.

A naughty little bunny tries to be good, but sometimes it's just too hard. Redrawn from the original 1959 book.

Ookpik, the Arctic owl, longs to see the city and is very happy to accept the invitation of a visiting poodle.

Tells and illustrates what things are yellow, purple, blue, red, green, brown, orange, white, or black.

A fussy princess learns the hard way that it isn't always important that everything be just right.

Here are three hundred and sixty-five stories and poems - one for every day of the year - each one illustrated by Richard Scarry. Young children will find hours of pleasure in these colourful pages and parents will find the tales just right for reading aloud.

The animal friends of the boy raised by wolves escort him out of the jungle to keep him safe from the tiger who seeks to kill him.

Six short stories and nine poems about rabbits, including one poem which is "A Bunny's Hungry ABC."

A human mother explains to her child who does not want to go to sleep that baby animals everywhere are fast asleep.

Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by illustrations of familiar objects such as airplane, button, clown, etc.

"Mr. Peabody is an inventor, a scientist, a genius, and ... a dog. Using his most ingenious invention, the WABAC time machine, Mr. Peabody and his adopted boy, Sherman, witness world-changing events firsthand. But when Sherman breaks the rules of time travel, they find themselves in a race to repair history--and save the future!"--Page 4 of cover.