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The first day of school becomes chaotic when third-grader Will's younger brother, Steve, arrives for kindergarten.

Best friends Arlo and Robby are almost identical in what they wear, what they like, and even where they have teeth missing, but when Robby insists on betting on who is going to lose the next tooth their friendship is endangered.

The Bear Detectives go to work when someone steals the money Farmer Ben has made from selling his delicious and popular watermelons.

Arthur and D.W. do not know what is wrong with Baby Kate when they take her to the neighborhood fair--but Pal the puppy does.

The Bear Detectives get to work when the nasty Bogg Brothers escape from jail and threaten to plunder the Bearsonian, the biggest museum in Bear Country.

His sister D.W. convinces Arthur to have a garage sale after his mother tells him to get rid of the junk in his room, but things do not work out exactly as he had planned.

Brer Fox makes a tar baby in order to catch Brer Rabbit, so when Brer Rabbit shakes hands, he'll get stuck. About fifty sentences, with one or two per gracefully color-cartooned page, this tale is reduced to the most basic motifs, but it does respect the ones it keeps. It will be a book to hand to kids who clamor for a version they can read for themselves.

As the minutes pass and the school bus gets closer to their house, Brother and Sister are in increasing danger of missing it.

When Arthur gets the hiccups, his family and friends try everything they can think of to make them go away.

A simple discussion of the kinds of sharks and their behaviour.

When Dog wakes up early, in the middle of the night, he launches all the other farm animals in a worried search for the missing sun.

Illus. in full color. "Kangaroo child Norma Jean loves to jump. The problem is that her jumping gets out of hand, causing accidents and some ruffled feelings among her friends, and Norma stops her jumping entirely. But when the school's field-day games come up, Norma Jean is coaxed back into action long enough to win ribbons. Light, popular fare for beginning readers."--Booklist. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Papa and Brother Bear demonstrate the difference between big and small with a variety of objects from hats and heads to suits of clothes.

The Bear Detectives try to figure out how Tic-Tac-Tom always wins at tic-tac-toe and whether he is cheating.

Collects five stories based on classic Disney animated films, including "Fly, Dumbo, Fly!," in which Dumbo discovers he can use his large ears to fly.

Star has good times with her friend Blister, but her big sister Ivy is still a pain.

The Bear family goes on a roller coaster ride.

A simplified retelling of the adventures of the strongest man in ancient Greece who was given twelve "impossible" tasks to perform.

A dozen dogs frolicking on the beach introduce the numbers one through twelve.

Unable to think of an idea for a science fair project, Arthur borrows a model his father made in third grade but feels bad about it even before he gets into trouble.

Felix, who has a gift for mental communication, is enlisted by the Frog Princess to help recover her magic moonstone from a mean neighbor's garden.

Emma tries several pets before she becomes best friends with her parakeet Henry, but she finds that friendship threatened when her brother Bruce buys another parakeet.

A young child describes in rhyme what it's like to have a loose tooth.

A fun-loving toad likes nothing better than to ride the train to unknown destinations.

Cat and Rat learn ice skating at an indoor rink and get to be Snowballs in a show there.

In a space version of the classic Treasure Island, the boy Jim and the cyborg cook, John Silver, travel the galaxy in search of Captain Flint's treasure.