Picture Puffin

Santa's sympathy for an unhappy bus spending Christmas cooped up in a garage leads to all of London's traffic spending a perfect day high and free over the city.

A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring a friend--and the friends are always wild animals--and always well-behaved.

Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, Keats' story of a young boy experiencing the year's first snowfall has delighted millions of readers. Peter, The Snowy Day's protagonist, wakes up to the season’s first snowfall. In his bright red snowsuit, he goes outside and makes footprints and trails through the snow. Peter is too young to join a snowball fight with older kids, so he makes a snowman and snow angels and slides down a hill. He returns home with a snowball stashed in his pocket. Before he goes to bed, Peter is sad to discover the snowball has melted. The next day, he wakes up to tons more falling snow. With a friend, he ventures outside again.

Narrates the short history of monster trucks--ordinary pickup trucks on four enormous tires--describing some of the outstanding examples of these unusual vehicles, which can be used to crush cars, race, jump cars, and engage in mud bog competition.

Relates the consequences of a stonecutter's foolish longing for power.

Dinosaurs have taken over the Earth! They're stomping and stamping all over the place. Young readers will love finding out why in this classic environmental tale from best-selling author/illustrator Michael Foreman. A fable for our time, and as relevant today as it was when it was first published in 1972.

This is a story about a very rich and successful man who has everything - except happiness. Who can help him to find the secret to a happy life?

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.

Sophie does not enjoy energetic, assertive Wendell's weekend visit until the very end, when she learns to assert herself and finds out Wendell can be fun to play with after all.

Benjy was a brown dog with long ears and a short tail. He loved everybody in his family -- Mother, Father, Linda, and Jimmy -- and they all loved him. He was a happy dog until he heard the words, "Tomorrow Aunt Sarah is coming for a visit, and she's bringing Tilly." Tilly was Aunt Sarah's parrot. When Tilly was there, Benjy's family always fussed over her and never paid any attention to him.That made Benjy jealous. - p. .

The Happy Lion is extremely unhappy because he is lonesome, so when a circus comes around and he sees the Beautiful Lioness, he brings her back to the zoo with him.

Climbing up a mountain, Meg the witch and Mog the cat run into thick fog and bump into something very strange.

When everyone was fast asleep, the Fog Maiden sent a cat to carry two sleeping children off for a fantastical evening highlighted by a palace ball.

A quiet fishing party is interrupted when something unexpected bites on the line.

An illustrated alphabet rhyme that includes the animals from alligator to zebra.

Since it was first published in 1964, Whistle for Willie has delighted millions of young readers with its nearly wordless text and its striking collage artwork depicting the story of Peter, who longs to whistle for his dog. The New York Times wrote: "Mr. Keats' illustrations boldly, colorfully capture the child, his city world, and the shimmering heat of a summer's day." - Publisher.

Because of her hateful pride, the king gives his daughter in marriage to the first beggar that comes to the door.

An autobiographical picture book that gently introduces young readers to the concept of grief. Tommy, a young child who regularly visits his grandmother and great-grandmother one day finds that his great-grandmother is no longer there. He must then learn to say good-bye.

Millions of Cats is a wonderful tale of vanity versus humility, written and illustrated by the singular Wanda Gag. An old man and his wife decide to get a cat, so the old man goes out in search of the prettiest cat of all. When he is forced to choose from "hundreds, thousands, millions and billions and trillions" of cats, he (naturally) brings them all home. When the wife points out their inability to support the legion of felines, it is left to the cats to decide who among them is the prettiest. Anyone who has ever owned more than a single cat can tell you what happens next. Gag's simple, appealing black ink drawings are perfect for the story, somehow capturing at least the idea of millions of cats in a single page. Repeated lines and the sing-song title refrain make this a read-aloud natural.(Ages 4 to 8) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. "This Newbery Honor winner is distinguished by innovative design and a strong storyteller's cadence." (School Library Journal's "One Hundred Books that Shaped the Century")

Relates what happens at Mary Bloom's when her friend's mouse has babies.

Mr. Gumpy's human and animal friends squash into his old car and go for a drive -- until it starts to rain.

An old cart horse and his master rescue the Lord Mayor when his coach breaks down and, in reward, they are invited to the Mayor's banquet.

A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise.

When Harry brings his toy dinosaurs to Mr. Oakley's farm, they all decide they want a duckling, and even though Mr. Oakley says they only have room at their house for chickens, they wish very hard and ask Santa to deliver a duckling.

Father Christmas visits France, Scotland, and Las Vegas while on his annual vacation.

Despite the many animals in the forest, three hunters see only a ship, a house, and a pincushion and find nothing to shoot.

A collection of easy-to-read riddles in verse about everyday objects.

In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky

Meg and Mog go to the zoo, where Mog is captured and caged until Meg thinks of a spell to free him.

When a wave washes over a dog and covers him with seaweed, he is mistaken for a sea monster.

Pepito, son of the Spanish Ambassador, and Madeline, rescued by gypsies during a storm, travel and perform with their wandering friends until they again find Miss Clavel

Harry the dog finds a graceful way to dispose of his new sweater with roses on it.

Lentil's harmonica playing saves the day when calamity threatens the homecoming celebration for the leading citizen of Alto, Ohio

Jetzt wird es dem armen Bauer aber wirklich zu bunt. Schon wieder haben die frechen Raubritter seine Felder verwüstet und die leckeren Erdbeeren aufgegessen ! Kurzerhand beschließt der Bauer, selbst Raubritter zu werden. Er steigt in ein leeres Essigfaß, stülpt sich einen Kochtopf auf den Kopf und zieht auf seinem Esel los.

Meg sends Owl to school for the first time and afterwards he asks all his new friends to tea.

Right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot. He was halfway down and more when the straps on his sacking bag broke loose. Out bounced the journey cake. It bumped and it bumped; it rolled over and over. Down the road it went, and how it hollered! "Journey cake, ho! Journey cake, hi! Catch me and eat me as I roll by!" Away and away rolled the journey cake. Away and away ran Johnny.

A New York City boy's preconceived ideas of life in the West make him very apprehensive about the family's move there.

Sailor Jack goes to work for pirates in order to raise enough money to adopt twenty orphans.

The wagon ride from town is so hazardous that Farmer Palmer, a pig, and Ebenezer, an ass, barely make it home again.

Relates the experiences of a little girl as she learns to tell the difference between makebelieve and real life.