Edith Thacher Hurd

When his parents go out hunting, Johnny Lion stays home and experiences exciting adventures reading a book about a baby lion who goes out into the world and gets lost.

Miss Mugs comes to stay with Suzie, and washes everything in sight, then finds nothing clean enough for her taste when they go the zoo.

The Duck and the Monkey race each other home, but neither wants to be a green pig, so they resort to all sorts of extra transportation such as a bicycle, a horse, a taxi, and a dump truck to get there first.

When Carl the cat is left at home while the family goes on a picnic, he goes to sleep and dreams that he is on the picnic and having all kinds of adventures.

Wilson starts out painting a picture of a beautiful world but keeps adding so many people and cities that soon his world is not fit to live in.

The animals hear of the birth of the Christ Child and come to visit Him.

Joe is surprised to see a live dinosaur when he digs a hole with his backhoe.

Mr. and Mrs. Charlie buy all the proper equipment and go on a camping trip, sleeping and cooking outdoors and fishing in a river.

This lively poem by the author of Goodnight Moon tells the tale of one little boy's letter. What happens after the boy drops it into the mailbox? How does it get to his grandma's house? Children will enjoy this rollicking tale of the seven little postmen who got the mail through.