This charming allegorical tale is once again available in a new edition. 18 color illustrations.

    These favorite titles are ready for another generation of children to love.

    “The full-color pictures with subtle tonal modulations are an integral part of the design of the lumious pages full of movement and vitality. The Italianate aspects of the setting are beautifully realized.”--The Horn Book

    Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to find the next fairy tale and nursery rhyme character. This board book edition is perfect for little hands. In this book "With your little eye, Take a look, And play 'I spy'". This familiar rhyme has been given the brilliant Ahlbreg treatment to which no young child can fail to respond. It's a book which will be read over and over again . . . just perfect!'"Deceptively simple. 'Each Peach Pear Plum' is a work of genius." - Elaine Moss

    This is a new Puffin edition of Allan Ahlberg's best-selling Cops and Robbers classic picture book, with a brand new cover! The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime one Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortunately, the robbers meet their match in brave office Pugh who leaps into action and arrests the villains - all except Grandma Swagg who manages to get away.

     In January, the cows stay in the barnyard, and the chickens don't lay many eggs. By March, you can tell spring is coming: the barn is filled with baby animals. Month by month, the animals at Maple Hill Farm sense the changing seasons and respond to the changes. Through gently humorous text and charming illustrations, Alice and Martin Provensen capture one year at their beloved Maple Hill Farm in a way sure to delight city slickers and country folk alike.

    But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers. Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The food got larger and larger and so did the portions. Chewandswallow was plagued by damaging floods and storms of huge food. The town was a mess and the people feared for their lives. Something had to be done, and in a hurry.

    One Saturday morning while their parents are away, the three Noonan children decide to paint the house.

    Five new episodes in the friendship of two hippos: "The Tight Rope," "The Diary," "The Icky Story," "The Big Scare," "The Amusement Park."

    The poem engages in flights of fancy - what about a husk being a house for an ear of corn, or a throat being a house for a hum? "And once you get started in thinking this way,/ It seems that whatever you see/ Is either a house or it lives in a house,/ And a house is a house for me!" whimsical drawings color the imaginative text.

    Pure, bright colors and a literal interpretation allow Asch to spin out the details in unified simplicity fitted to preschoolers' interests, feelings, and attention spans.--Booklist.

    "Both informative and blunt, the book provides young readers with solid facts as well as plenty to snicker about, including sage advice ('Don't hold them in--pass that gas!)."--"Publishers Weekly." Full color.

    Mouse kisses baby mouse goodnight, he cries, “Mother, Mother, I want another!” His concerned mama rushes off to invite other mothers—Mrs. Duck, Mrs. Frog, Mrs. Pig, and Mrs. Donkey—to help put her son to bed. But baby mouse doesn’t want another mother. Will Mrs. Mouse discover what her son really wants?A delightful comedy of errors perfect for Mother’s Day, Mother, Mother, I Want Another has been heartwarmingly re-illustrated by acclaimed artist Jon Goodell.

    

    Features die-cut pages.

    Then one day, her wish came true! Mum and Dad told the children that they had found a house with a garden for them all to live in! Right away everyone began to make plans.

    

    A small boy refuses to take a bath until his grandmother shows him how to make kid tea.

    

    

    Chester longs to be a performer in the circus, but the road to stardom is rocky until someone discovers Chester's true "worldliness."

    Suggests vivid intangible souvenirs one carries away from such places and experiences as a beach, a parade, the woods, a snow-covered hill, and a county fair.

    

    Just one busy day out-of-doors teaches Moontoo, a white, plump cat, about playing with others, pretensions, and the adventures of the world outside.

    

    

    A piggy bank, bored with the sameness of every day, discovers that life outside his quiet Mexican home can be too exciting.

    

    Unfortunately the animals don’t feel the same way about Tiger-pig…

    Harry's seventy-two room collection of things is imperiled by a dangerous jumping bean.

    Traces the development of three forms of transportation.

    A huge rainstorm and the resulting flood trap all of Noah's party guests aboard his ark until the dove flies off and returns with an olive branch and a picture postcard.

    

    Two stories--the first featuring three pugnacious walruses, the second, a stranded penguin.

    

    In return for saving a boy's life, a Mayan rain god expects some help around his house--but the boy is really no help at all.

    

    The text offers a clear, informative history of the art, and the photographs present Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Charles Mingus, Benny Godman, Louis Armstrong and scores of others. These haunting photographs are supplemented with some rare vintage prints to tell the whole story of jazz from Buddy Bolden to Anthony Braxton.

    26 designs, one for each letter of the alphabet, that come to life and give the illusion of motion when viewed through the moiré screen provided.

    Elizabeth Ann tries very hard to lose a wobbly tooth.

    Topsy and Tim visit the model dinosaurs at Crystal Palace Park

    

    A young boy is disappointed when his puppy follows his mother everywhere, but the situation changes with the advent of a new baby.

    Aided by a wayward rhinoceros, Appelard and his motley farm animals finally have a successful harvest.