Haunts, gobblygooks, witches, and devils beware!

    When the poor man was unable to stand it any longer, he ran to the Rabbi for help.As he follows the Rabbi's unlikely advice, the poor man's life goes from bad to worse, with increasingly uproarious results. In his little hut, silly calamity follows foolish catastrophe, all memorably depicted in full-color illustrations that are both funnier and lovelier than any this distinguished artist has done in the past.It Could Always Be Worse is a 1977 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1978 Caldecott Honor Book.

    In five brief episodes two hippos confirm their friendship: “The Fibber,” “The Experiment,” “The Picnic,” “The Scary Movie!,” and “The Secret Club.”

    With his hilarious wordplay and zany illustrations, Fred Gwynne keeps children of all ages in stitches!

    A great green hooligan vine starts to grow and threatens to take over the whole town until one boy finds out how to control it.

    

    

    Through a process of systematic deduction, Molly finds not only her lost stuffed dinosaur, Moe, but lots of other things she's misplaced.

    Crows peck at freshly sown seeds, ducks eat new strawberry plants, rabbits nibble on tender lettuces, and raccoons dine on ears of ripening corn. All summer long the young farmer and his wife are hard-pressed to protect their growing crops. But autumn comes at last, and the family is ready to celebrate its harvest-bushels of red tomatoes, a cellar full of apples for cider, and pumpkins for pie. In rollicking verse and wonderful illustrations, Dahlov Ipcar tells of all the hard work that goes into making a bountiful fall harvest.

    A trio take a midday walk in the woods where each amuses himself with his private thoughts.

    Katie heads off to pick up a treat from Mr. Cherry's ice-cream parlor and to invite four of her friends to the welcome party for Albert.

    

    

    

    Pip Squeak Joins the Band (Medici books for children)

    

    Positive they heard burglars during the night, a brother and sister cat wonder what they could have taken since nothing seems to be missing.

    

    Alfred is a truly remarkable, friendly cat who owns a tree of bird song, believes in education, and might even have lived nine lives.

    Sailor Peter Penny leaves the navy and sets out to dance the sailor's hornpipe around the world in five years, thereby winning the right to marry the captain's daughter.

    Describes the dependent relationship of a joey to his mother until he grows old enough to leave her and join a kangaroo mob of his own.

    All the animals have advice for mouse on what to wear and what not to wear for the special holiday greeting on Twenty-two, Twenty-three.

    

    When they find a mysterious box at the edge of the woods, all the animals are convinced that there is a monster inside.

    Lemuel Gulliver's journeys take him to Lilliput, a country whose inhabitants are no more than six inches tall; to Brobdingnag, a land of giants; to Laputa, a flying island inhabited by absent-minded people; and to the land of Houyhnhnms, where horselike creatures rule with intelligence and courtesy over repulsive humanlike Yahoos. One of literature's lasting legacies, Swift's trenchant cautionary tale is a witty, allegorical depiction of people at their worst; yet it may also be read as an enchanting, playful children's story with universal appeal.