No fighting, no bloodshed, but still exciting and fast-moving. It is a tale that stretches the imagination: the reader must accept a juggling lion (six cans of root beer at once!) and a sixteen-foot Gazoo. Not a hard assignment for a child, but perhaps a bit more difficult for a wordly grown-up.Take heart, you staid elders. The story has elements running throughout that should appeal to adults as well as children (how 'bout mice that paint in the fashion of Picasso, Matisse, Grant Wood and even Toulouse Lautrec?) because the author knew that if a story IS A REALLY GOOD ONE, parents everywhere would be commanded by their children to read it aloud again and again. And maybe even once more...Book Details: Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 11/15/2004 Pages: 64 Reading Level: Age 3 and Up

    No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes, when Baby Brute happens upon "a little wandering lost good feeling in a field of daisies." When he brings it home in his pocket, nothing is ever the same for the Little Brute Family.

    It seemed like a simple enough problem at the beginning, but more and more complications set in—in the forms of a donkey, a sheep, and a cow, to name a few, until it looked as though an entire farm had come to life right there in Peter’s house!But with the proper, if overwhelming, application of true folk wisdom, the trouble was ended. Peter’s house was finally quiet.Or was it?“This is a funny book, a very funny book.”—Publishers Weekly “The too-crowded house of a familiar old tale becomes a too noisy house in this entertaining picture-book story.”—Booklist

    A boy and his dog go walking in the swamp.They spot a frog in the water.Can they use a net to catch him?

    

    

    His parents warn him not to go down to the valley, but he can't resist the temptation, and one day he's spotted by the gamekeeper. A hunt is organized, and Harquin has to run for his life.

    

    Josh McBroom relates how he and his family harness the rambunctious prairie wind.

    

    

    He brought prosperity and luck until a new master offered him a bribe. He left in a rage and returned only when the boy of the family begged him to come home.

    

    Two lonesome little girls who live in the same big apartment building finally meet and become friends.

    William Blake. Poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence. London: The Bodley Head, [1967]. First and only printing. Edition limited to 275 copies for presentation at Christmas, printed for the publisher by the Stellar Press. Tall twelvemo. Original wrappers. 19 pages. Cover illustration and eight drawings by Maurice Sendak (one drawing repeated). Text reprinted from the 1957 Nonesuch Press edition of The Complete Writings of William Blake. Illustrated sewn wrappers.

    He wouldn't take piano lessons or wear earmuffs and he wouldn't have to talk to any girls, especially the daughter of his mother's friend.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    Clyde, a guard at Buckingham Palace, whose job is to keep wee animals from straying on to the royal grounds, gives his visiting cousins a tour of London.

    This heartwarming story of two children and their little bird, painted in glowing and vibrant colours, was first published in 1967.

    

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    He knocks on a strange man's door and announces he's moving in. The old man plays along, letting Rex fetch the newspaper and patting his head, then insists he go home. The man resembles Einstein, the boy a skinny owl--it's all in gentle orange, gold, and olive watercolors, diffused with light. A tender story full of offhand, understated humor, more suited to fond mothers than to their offspring, who may well find it pointless.