Larry Robinson

Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.

A little boy has a series of adventures and misadventures with a bunch of wild animals.

Rebecca Estelle, an old woman who has hated pumpkins ever since she was a girl and her family had nothing else to eat, finds herself with a full crop of them.

When he discovers a bear with a toothache outside his window, a little boy tries to think of ways of removing the tooth.

It is when the fix-it man is trying to repair the television and her parents are trying to entertain her that Emma becomes so interested in reading, she no longer cares about TV.

A young boy imagines what it was like long ago when a dinosaur lived in his back yard.

One morning in March 1888, twelve-year-old Milton Daub awoke to find the world buried in snow. The blizzard was like nothing Milton and his neighbors in the Bronx had ever seen. No one dared go out into the storm. No one, that is, except Milton. He and his father made a pair of snowshoes from barrel hoops and old roller skates. Then Milton stepped bravely into the storm to buy milk for his family. Soon he was buying supplies for everyone in the area....

Follows the humorous mishaps of a second grader who is learning to read.

Discusses the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday in America and the traditional foods and decorations that are used in its contemporary celebration.

Baked, stewed, or mashed, pumpkins remind Rebecca of the Great depression when that was all her family had to eat. When an enormous pumpkin falls off a truck and smashes in her yard she devises a clever way to get rid of the crop that sprouts.