Paddington returns from Peru and tries his hand at such things as the stock market, barbering, and even ballet, but he decides he would rather be his bear self.

What other bear but Paddington could find himself sent home on his first day of school? Or questioned as a prime witness in court? Or taking a crash course in water-skiing? Trust Paddington to follow his nose for adventure, with a suitcase full of marmalade sandwiches in tow!

The Peruvian bear decorates, turns detective, and helps with Christmas shopping, along with other disasters.

A typically wonderful Oxenbury family sets out with gusto on a bear hunt, and the old story comes to life. Rosen's retelling is spare, with a driving rhythm, and some new sounds add sparkle to the traditional tale.

Jesse Bear is admonished not to get wet under a variety of tantalizing circumstances, until finally he receives permission in his own wading pool.

Six thousand years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.

Corduroy, un oso solitario con un mono verde, primero debe encontrar su botón perdido antes de poder ser el propio oso de Lisa. Corduroy, a lonely bear in green overalls, must first find his lost button before he can be Lisa's very own bear.

One by one, a whole host of different animals and birds find their way out of the cold and into Bear's cave to warm up. But even after the tea has been brewed and the corn has been popped, Bear just snores on! See what happens when he finally wakes up and finds his cave full of uninvited guests, all of them having a party without him!

"When the children discover a bear at the librarian's desk at story time, they think he's the new librarian. He's not!"--

The amusing story of a toy bear whose one missing button from his green corduroy overalls almost costs him the opportunity of belonging to someone. Don Freeman's classic character, Corduroy, is even more popular today then he was when he first came on the scene over thirty years ago. These favorite titles are ready for another generation of children to love. A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally...