Scholastic Big Books

A greedy fisherman's wife is granted every wish but can't find happiness.

Presents the traditional version of a famous American folk poem first heard in the U.S. in the 1940's with illustrations on die-cut pages that reveal all that the old lady swallows.

Ursula Nordstrom (February 2, 1910 – October 11, 1988) was publisher and editor-in-chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row from 1940 to 1973. She is credited with presiding over a transformation in children's literature in which morality tales written for adult approval gave way to works that instead appealed to children's imaginations and emotions. She also authored the 1960 children's book The Secret Language. A collection of her correspondence was published in 1998 as Dear Genius: the Letters of Ursula Nordstrom.

Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.

Miss Calico loses her way in going to visit Captain Yankee on Pebble Point, but her map helps her find his house in the end.

A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.

An alphabet book in which the everyday and the unusual meet.

An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

A little cloud becomes all sorts of things--sheep, an airplane, trees, a hat--before joining other clouds and raining.