. . The silliness is right on target for tickling young readers.--Booklist. Pilkey's endearing stories are perfect for beginning readers.--Publishers Weekly.

    Fortunately, Reddy has wise Granny Fox on his side and, with some timely help from other woodland friends, manages to avoid an unhappy ending.As this timeless fable unfolds, children will delight in Reddy's risky antics and the commotion his behavior causes among Johnny Chuck, Drummer the Woodpecker, Peter Rabbit, and the other inhabitants of the Green Forest. Thornton W. Burgess, author of Old Mother West Wind and many other children's classics, was a master at telling a good story that holds a child's attention while instilling an important lesson in the most painless and enjoyable fashion. First published in 1913, The Adventures of Reddy Fox was one of his finest efforts. In this inexpensive Dover edition, newly reset in large, easy-to-read type, it will delight children (and adults) today, just as it did their grandparents.

    Five unique children--Lindalou, who makes a flying boat; Ferdinand, who uses special spectacles to cure people; Andy, who talks to animals; Valentina, who paints people's feelings; and Ignatius, who can smell danger--meet through the craftiness of a magic spider.

    Wildsmith has created a translucent nighttime landscape of astonishing beauty for this tale that is at once contemporary and satisfyingly traditional. Full-color illustrations.

    Illiterate and saddled with learning disabilities, he overcomes his many obstacles to reach professional success.

    

    Frustrated by life in a crowded housing project, Emma longs for a room of her own but, because of family circumstances, must settle for far less.

    Since moving to Ocean View, Allan has spent most of his time alone, out at Silver Lake, watching the geese and the beautiful, graceful white ducks he calls snowbirds. So Allan is grateful when Tony and Pete let him hang out with them. Until the day they start throwing rocks at the birds, and daring Allan to hit one. "What are you, afraid?" they tease. "Maybe we just won't call you anymore. You're scared to do anything." Allan wants to belong, but will he have to attack the birds to prove himself? And is it worth it?

    The plans that Maxine, the Girl Wonder, and her younger brothers, the Terrific Twins, come up with usually mean trouble for their mother.

    Retells the Disney version of the tale of a young maid who releases a handsome prince from the spell that has made him an ugly beast.