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Parallel pictures reveal the essential similarities between the lives of two boys, one in a western country, one in a rural African village.

One day when Mom returns home she is greeted by surprise after surprise from each of her six children and her husband.

Everyone in Morris's family is pleased with their Christmas present but Morris.

A brightly illustrated collection of Mother Goose rhymes.

Describes many different types of bikes, including the unicycle, tandem bike, racing bike, exercise bike, and trail bike.

Curtains Up! Harriet loves her ballet class, but when Miss Betty announces a recital, Harriet succumbs to a bad case of stage fright. She worries about falling. She's afraid her costume will rip. And she's positive that she'll forget every step of her dance as soon as she steps on stage. Young readers are sure to recognize some of their own fears in this hilarious story of Harriet's first recital.

Harvey thinks his big sister is mean and rotten; she thinks he is stupid and no-good. As a result, they both spend some lonely hours refusing to play with each other.

After being flooded out of his home and swept out to sea, Montigue the mole finds himself leading a crew of shipbound mice on a daring rescue.

Benjamin is at a loss in handling Tulip's constant bullying.

Followed by a huge grizzly bear, an Eskimo brother and sister make a perilous trek across the storm-swept tundra to bring back a frozen caribou to their hungry family.

A little boy's dream-fantasy in which he helps three fat bakers get milk for their cake batter.

Louanne thinks she wants to be part of a big family until she spends a weekend with her friend George and his five sisters and four brothers.

A grandma will take you on new adventures and play dress-up. Grandmas explain the rules and give you tickles. And grandmas love to hug you! Lift the flaps and see all the fun things a grandma does.

Follows Little Dracula's humorous attempts to follow in his father's footsteps and get his first bite.

Lift the flaps and see all the things that can happen to eggs.

The first one to awake, Milton the Panda tries hard to wake all the other animals but to no avail.

Peter's mischievous cousin, Benjamin Bunny, persuades him to go back to Mr. McGregor's garden to retrieve the clothes he lost there.

Lift the flaps to see all the fun things you can do with your cousins.

When ninety-nine-year-old Miss Fannie gives up her favorite pink straw hat with the roses, to help raise money for her church, she receives an unexpected reward.

Carl's big brother doesn't think it would be easy to be a baby, but he also realizes Carl is lucky to have someone to play with and protect him.

While casting a spell to produce something for supper, Meg the witch creates three eggs that hatch dinosaurs.

Because of a pooka spirit, Daniel O'Rourke embarks on a fantastic journey.

This short play by the author of Winnie the Pooh, is a droll little fairy tale about a princess who isn't beautiful. At her christening she was blessed by her Great-Aunt Malkin with this enigmatic rhyme: "I give you with this kiss A wedding day surprise. Where ignorance is bliss 'Tis folly to be wise." She has now grown up into a happy and healthy young woman, but she is undeniably plain. All the courtiers must tread warily around the subject of this most unheard of misfortune, and her royal father and mother scheme and plot how to marry her off. Although only seven actors are required, it is bursting with witty dialogue and brings to life the whole castle. Irresistible fun!

Jack does not understand that friendship must be a two-way street until he meets Richard.

After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?

Harriet accepts her friend George's challenge to ride the frightening roller coaster and finds out that she is the brave one.

Second-grader Ronald Morgan inadvertently turns a failing class play into a success.

A curious Scotch terrier decides to investigate the strange noise coming from the other side of the hedge.

Sam's birthday brings a solution to several of his problems.

An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.

Some old favorites - "The Eensy, Weensy Spider," and some less familiar rhymes - "There Was a Little Turtle," are all dressed up in double-page illustrations with easy-to-follow diagrams for telling the stories with finger gestures. Counting rhymes, tickling rhymes, and rhymes to laugh with - these have charmed generations of small children, parents, teachers, and librarians. Here they are, to be shared in a lap with one child or in a group with many children, in a stunningly designed book by a popular young artist.

Lift the flaps and see all the extra special things a mommy does.

Naughty Nigel always pretends to misunderstand what his parents tell him as an excuse to misbehave.

Although her people have been forced to live underground for many years by the evil Okira, Reena discovers the forbidden door to the outside world and manages to free them.

A very modern grandmother, Mrs. Oberon, rides her tuned-up trail bike to come to her son Scrimshaw's rescue when he cannot stop his teething baby from crying.

On his day off from the circus, Paddy, a performing Irish terrier, spends a delightful day in a country town.

A boy thinks he is the best boat driver.But one stormy day he goes off sailing and crashes.When he wakes up he finds himself on an island.While he is there he learnes how to fly a boat.So the next morning he flies his boat back to where he came from.But he crashes.No one believed he flew the boat but one kid.

A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master's houseboat one evening.

Rosie pretends she is a lovely lady singer, a big red firecracker, and a sleepy cat.

After having his lunch repeatedly stolen by a bully twice his size, Loudmouth George and his friend Harriet teach him a lesson he'll never forget.

Tina the beaver and her family constantly rush off in different directions, until a storm keeps them snowbound at home.

Platypus and his friend Echidna have a birthday party for Bruce, a toy platypus.

Hazel sets out to prove that she, not her baby brother, is the worst monster anywhere. Since the Baby Monster arrived, no one notices big sister Hazel's talents. When Billy wins the Worst Monster Baby in the World contest, that's the final straw--Hazel must prove that she is the Worst Monster in the World.

An easy-to-read description of the basic tools found in a toolbox.

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family

Arthur's anger is so great he wants to take it out on, not only his family, but the whole world.

A little girl and her grandfather share very special moments.

A puppy joins a litter of kittens in their fun for a day.

A little girl comes home after school and finds a monster in the house.

Spud and Joe are forced by their mothers to take ballroom dancing lessons and scheme to win a contest on television.

A mouse searches everywhere for a friend

It is almost Valentine's Day, and James has put a very special card in the mail.

Bored with his daily run between two villages, the little train decides to run away.

Frances is jealous of her sister's birthday, but birthday spirit moves her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

Two children, who are not afraid of anything, hunt the terrible tiger

A Swahili girl is abducted by a Zimwi and told to be the voice inside his singing drum.

An overindulgence in chocolate the night before her aunt's wedding causes Lulu to have some very strange dreams.

A collection of humorous poems about amazing or nasty creatures, including a flying cow, a pig who turns the tables on a farmer, and crocodiles, lions, and anteaters who delight in devouring people.

Even though Henry is looking forward to going to kindergarten, he is not sure about staying once he first gets there.

Pete finds a sleepy blue parakeet in his backyard and enjoys keeping the bird as a pet until the day it decides to become independent again.

Lift the flaps and see all the extra special things a daddy does.

A young girl from Brooklyn, New York enjoys her summer at the beach where she can paint and listen to the wild waves.

Although he can't hit or catch, Ronald Morgan loves to play baseball; but he's got a lot of spirit and with a little practice maybe that's all he'll need.

A witch tries to make her sick cat better with a specially-brewed potion.

Borka, a goose with no feathers, has a hard life until a kindly dog and a sailor take her to Kew Gardens in London, where she finds a home and acceptance.

With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school, and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Not one of Mr. Higgins' four clocks kept the correct time until the Clockmaker assured him they were all correct.

Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.

One hunter walks through the forest observed first by two elephants, then by three giraffes, etc.

A hen gives the Easter rabbits the eggs she's been sitting on for three weeks and after the rabbits paint them a surprising thing happens.

Presents a rhyming rendition of the six days in which God made the seas, the skies, and the creatures and of the seventh day on which He rested to admire them.

Describes, in verse, Benjamin's magnificient barn which is enormously warm, tall, wide, soft, clean, and full.

By admiring her finer points and showing that she can take care of herself and have fun even when there's no one else around, a charming pig proves the best friend you can have is yourself.

When the door to his house at the zoo is left open a lion decides to visit his friends, but he quickly learns that people are not nearly as polite or friendly in town as when they visit him at the zoo.

Harriet decides that her little brother Walt isn't as big a pest as she once thought he was.

Archie's day would have been great if he had not started it by greeting the new cat on the block.

Will tries everything to quiet his crying baby brother.

Rabbit has a problem - someone is inside her house and won't let her in.

When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, and runs away.

When an accident requires Arnie to use crutches, he begins to understand the limits and possibilities of his new classmate, who has a wheelchair.

Nicky the cat meets several animal friends on his way to a picnic in the meadow.

A collection of the four stories relating all the adventures of Peter Rabbit and his mischievous cousin, Benjamin Bunny. Included are "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny," "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies," and "The Tale of Mr. Tod."