This book, written for children ages 5 to 8, will make learning about animals a roaring good time! Kids will love the full-color, interactive fun! Pull-tabs, wheels, flaps, and more impart information in an exciting, hands-on way. Interesting trivia about where animals live, what they eat, their daily lives, and much more are also included in the book.
An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.
This is the story of rnwhen I was a boy, rnalmost 100 years ago, rnwhen fire engines were rnpulled by horses, rnboys did not play with girls, rnkids went to libraries for books, rnthere was no TV, rnyou could see a movie for a nickel, rnand everybody wore a hat.
Here's a sprightly quintet of short stories about a troll twosome whose friendship is constantly being tested. Beginning readers should . . . appreciate Jewell's gentle wit as well as her message. —BL.""
One beautiful day, a shy little kitten embarks on a journey filled with adventure! In the course of her wanderings, she meets an interesting and often amusing collection of fellow creatures. The Shy Little Kitten, with illustrations by the renowned Gustaf Tenggren.rnrnrnFrom the Hardcover edition.
The runaway bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Two generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words and loving pictures. It is here published in a new edition for which the artist has redrawn some of his pictures; they are wholly in keeping with the softy poetic timeless spirit of his famous originals.
When Princess Daffodil is bestowed with the gift of flowers by her Fairy Godmother, no one in the palace knows what this gift means. Only when the young girl begins to toddle across the grounds, do the King and Queen see that flowers will grow wherever their daughter has stepped. This is both a blessing and a curse for Daffodil, as she is only allowed to play in the flower beds, where no other …