We see its famous buildings, its beautiful gardens, the museums, the sidewalk cafes, and the people who live there -- artists, the concierges, the flower girls, and even the thousands of cats. Take a tour along the banks of the Seine, or through the galleries of the Louvre, or to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Elegant, vivid pictures of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, This is Paris!

    He brought me 'This is Paris' in 1958 when I when I was publishing in London, and we soon followed up with 'This is London'. Both books were enormously successful, and his simple vision grew to include more than a dozen books. Their amusing verse, coupled with bright and charming illustrations, made for a series unlike any other, and garnered Sasek (as we always called him) the international and popular acclaim he deserved.I was thrilled to learn that 'This is London' will once again find its rightful place on bookshelves. Sasek is no longer with us (and I have lost all contact with his family), but I am sure he would be delighted to know that a whole new generation of wide-eyed readers is being introduced to his whimsical, imaginative, and enchanting world.

    One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they are overjoyed. They hug until they become green. But where did little blue and little yellow go? Are they lost?

    Seuss in his first all-color picture book, Happy Birthday to You! Fly with the Great Birthday Bird in this fantastical commemoration of YOU! And make the most of your special day, which only comes once a year! “Today you are you! That is truer than true!There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”The ultimate birthday gift for ages one to 101—from the one and only Dr. Seuss!

    Hubert the lion, terribly vain about his beautiful mane, tries everything to make it grow back after it goes up in smoke.

    First of all, it's pink. Not just regular pink, but pink, pink, PINK!Then there's the roster of regular guests: an artist from Greenwich Village, a magician from The World, and a carpenter form Nobody Knows.It's the perfect combination for adventure - from mysterious messages to alligator hunting, dognapping, and Great-Granduncle Hiram's rumored secret treasure. The action at the Pink Motel never stops!

    With his very own illustrations, this collection, which includes the famous On the Ning Nang Nong will make you laugh from the bottom of your belly - just like Spike did. The legendary and iconic figure, Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. He was the creator, principal writer and performer of the infamous Goon Show. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992 and Knighthood in 2000. He died in 2002. Other children's books by Spike Milligan: Bald Twit Lion; Badjelly the Witch; Dip the Puppy; Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon; A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories and Poems; The Magical World of Milligan

    in color. A boy's madcap adventures as he tries to retrieve his bouncing ball are told in "lively rhyming prose. Humorous, repetitious situations will delight children. 'Recommended.' - School Library Journal.

    Along the way he finds a school full of kids and new things to do—and he even learns to read!"So funny and so original that it promises to be one of the most successful books in this best-selling series." (Publishers Weekly)Sammy the Seal is another hilarious, original story by Syd Hoff, the celebrated author of Danny and the Dinosaur. This Level One I Can Read is perfect for shared reading with a child.

    Tolly's great grandmother isn't a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of ghosts, children from centuries before. For a summer, Ida, Oscar and Ping canoe on the river at Ida's great-aunt's ancient, river-encircled house of Green Knowe.

    He was strong and brave. He was not afraid of coyotes. He was not afraid of mountain lions. He was not afraid of ornery rustlers. . . ." --from The Brave CowboyThis adorable gift book for children features Joan's black and red line drawings on cream-colored stock. The red illustrations represent the brave cowboy's imaginary world of bandits, rattlesnakes, stagecoaches, and fair maidens. Joan's inspiration for the main character came from her son when he was about three years old.

    Children's book about a blind boy and a young princess.

    The task of this benevolent society is to befriend human prisoners in their cells, and perform daring rescue bids. As this story opens, the Chairwoman of the Society is proposing the rescue of a Norwegian poet who is being held in grim conditions in the Black Castle.

    The stories range from fear of the dark and being sad to playing doctor, being a fairy princess, and dealing with a new toy that almost replaces lion.

    Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons. Jean Craighead George, author of more than 80 children's books, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, created another prizewinner with My Side of the Mountain--a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book. Astonishingly, she wrote its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, 30 years later, and a decade after that penned the final book in the trilogy, Frightful's Mountain, told from the falcon's point of view. George has no doubt shaped generations of young readers with her outdoor adventures of the mind and spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter

    W. Anderson. This time, the loyal friends come face-to-face with a ferocious mountain lion. But fortunately, they're able to chase the wild cat into its den and save a frightened calf from near death. Billy and Blaze help capture the cat before it can emerge, and, heroes once again, ride the range in search of new adventures! Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and understanding between a boy and his horse.

    Norman, the doorman of a mouse hole in an art museum, uses his own art talent and finds a way to see the art treasures in the galleries upstairs.

    The littlest witch makes several discoveries during the course of her first Halloween.

    - The Rat-A-Tat Mystery - The Ragamuffin Mystery

    The action is fast-paced, spine-tingling and riotous as our intrepid duo follow a trail that leads them right back to where it all began - to Friday's tunnel - in the Callendar back yard.

    Mommy and Daddy are so pleased with their two helpers. Benjy and Sue are very pleased, too, because helping Daddy is fun.#14 of 68 Special miniature versions of Golden's best-loved children's stories

    

    Lalu journeys to Agra to take his sister to a doctor, a journey of 300 miles.

    

    They hatch up a daring plan to steal a neglected and abandoned horse from the local pound and keep it in secret.

    Beautiful, possibly allegorical story in which most of the characters are animals in the forest but other characters are a shepherd and his family, who live there at the edge of the forest.

    A collection of ghost stories originating in folk tales told the world over.

    A second edition was published in 1971, with new illustrations updated to reflect the Apollo program.The book is a children's story in the "Beginner Books" series, written using a restricted vocabulary of simple words for a readership age of six. The original 1959 illustrations show a lunar mission concept based on the Von Braun and Ley space exploration concepts of 1952 (Man Will Conquer Space Soon!), featuring wingéd three-stage rockets ferrying the passengers to a rotating-wheel space station, serving as a transfer station to the spider-like lunar surface shuttle.

    A Science I CAN READ Book that explains how seeds work and shows Benny's seed experiments.

    The story follows Nu Dang as he searches for his kite. In his small boat he paddles down the long brown river asking the sweet-cakes vendor, the cloth merchant, the butcher and others if they've seen his kite, but no one has. At last he sadly makes his way home, where a joyous surprise awaits him.

    Her determination to keep Miss Charity, the one-room-school teacher, where she is, and not embarked on such a silly business as matrimony, almost has dire repercussions, until love and grown-up practicality intervene. The story is filled with domestic event and historical detail.

    Includes: Smoke From Cromwell's Time / A Small Pinch of Weather / The River Boy / All You've Ever Wanted / The Lilac in the Lake / The Rocking Donkey / The King Who Stood All Night / Cooks and Prophecies / The Magic Iron; John Sculpin and the Witches / The Wolves and the Mermaids / The Parrot and the Princess / The Lobster's Birthday / The Gift Pig.

    Originally published in the UK as The Silver Pencil.

    While spending her first summer away from home, nine-year old Laurie loses her favorite doll but then finds another, with surprising results.

    The important link between seeing and feeling is the basis of visual arts and an indispensable key to understanding and appreciation. With vivid poetic word imagery, exciting pictures and a masterful use of color, Helen Borten introduces children to all the wonders the visual world can provide!Helen Borten was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1930. She attended the Philadelphia Museum College of Art and produced the main body of her well-loved children's picture book illustrations in the 1960s.

    Follows the story Persis, a lonely doll, and her adventures with Turtle, Nice Bear and Cross Bear.

    The Magic Fishbone2. Lightning: A Cowboy's Colt3. The Story Book of Ships4. Old Mother Hubbard5. Drakesbill6. The Jumblies7. Rosa-Too-Little8. Butterflies and Moths of North America9. Daniel in the Lions' Den10. Let's Visit Puerto Rico

    

    

    One day while roaming in the forest, he sought shelter in a cave, and that cave was the home of a fierce tiger. How the goat out-witted the tiger and saved his own life, some of the wise meanings of an Aesop tale but with unusual overtones of rare humour and rollicking laughter.This will be a wonderful read-aloud book, with its merry prose and singing rhyme.

    A Wonder Read Aloud Book.

    Composition is in Poliphilus type. The illustrations are copied from the original engravings in that edition. Presswork and binding are by the Kingsport Press. The Jacket was designed by Lauretta Sellitti and the book was published in this edition in August, 1966. Originally published by Thomas Yoseloff Ltd., 1959.Library of Congress catalogue Card no.; AC66-10764

    

    

    

    A story of the rebuilding of lives as well as homes in bombed Tokyo, after World War II was over, told through the tale of small Tomi and the Tamaki family.

    The TV personality brings his lessons home in this all-time favorite activity book.

    With THE RED BIRD, Lindgren turns her attention to two very different orphans, Matthew and Anna, who are sent to live with the stern farmer in Myra. The work is hard; the food is scarce; the days are cold. But then Anna and Matthew follow the red bird to Sunnymead, where they find hope, sunshine, and in the end, freedom. This extraordinary story of hope and redemption, with exquisite illustrations by Marit Tornqvist, is certain to become a modern classic.

    

    It was a custom for every father to have a treat in his bucket, and the miners’ children scrambled to be first to get theirs.But the mine whistle could mean other things in the lives of the miners and their families. Sometimes it was the signal for disaster. And sometimes it did not blow at all, when the mines were closed and there was no work for the men. Tina and her brother and their friends learned some hard lessons about hunger and hardship that winter; but they also learned about hope and courage. And, of course, there were lots of happy times, too: square dances, a wedding, and rides on Grandfather's ponies.As in all Lois Lenski’s regional books, the events in this story are based on true happenings, so her picture of life in a “coal camp” is a true snapshot of the 1950s. Written in 1959.

    The articles are in the form of short stories telling the adventures of two young friends, Elizabeth and Andy, growing up near each other in the late 1800's and learning to apply Christian Science in their lives.