Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

"A children's picture book in which a series of animals including a brown bear, a red bird, a white dog, a yellow duck and a teacher all cross the pages, introducing each other as they go"--WorldCat.

"Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days"--WorldCat.

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

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.

When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.

Duck and Goose learn to work together to take care of a ball, which they think is an egg.

A nervous Splat finds his first day at Cat School much better than he expected.

Farmer Brown does not like Halloween or the spooky sounds of a Halloween night so he draws the shades, locks the door, and goes to bed, but when the animals hold a Halloween party in his barn, Farmer Brown is in for a big surprise.

A little porcupine just wants a hug, but all the other animals shy away from his prickly spikes--except for a snake.