Bear's animal friends come to his rescue when he becomes lost and frightened in the woods.

Little Bear's thank-you kiss from grandmother gets passed on to him by many animals and greatly aids the skunks' romance.

"If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer ... Come in ... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place...

A collection of poetry, including King John's Christmas, Sneezles, Us Two, Cradle Song, and other poems from the life and imagination of a small child.

After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.

How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions?

Rhymed text and illustrations invite the reader to play "I Spy" with Tom Thumb, Jack and Jill, Baby Bunting, and a host of other familiar nursery-rhyme characters who are hiding in the colorful pictures. Children are challenged to find them as the story unfolds.

It's a bright and beautiful spring day, and Pearl, a pig, is dawdling on her way home from school.Most unexpectedly, she strikes up an acquaintance with a small bone. "You talk?" says Pearl. " In any language, " says the bone. Won't her parents be surprised when she introduces her talking bone!

A collection of fanciful, humorous short stories introducing such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Henry Hagglyhoagly, the Blue Wind Boy, Googler and Gaggler, and others.

Chester has always wanted to become a service dog. When he fails his certification test, though, it seems like that dream might never come true -- until a family adopts him to be a companion for their ten-year-old son, Gus, who has autism. But Gus acts so differently than anyone Chester has ever met. He never wants to pet Chester, and sometimes he doesn't even want him in the room. Chester's not sure how to help Gus since this isn't exactly the job...