A household of unusual creatures help beginning readers recognize common "household" words.

The students of Diffendoofer School celebrate their unusual teachers and curriculum, including Miss Fribble who teaches laughing, Miss Bonkers who teaches frogs to dance, and Mr. Katz who builds robotic rats.

If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.

The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading.

Here is a book you can read aloud to find out just how smart your tongue is. Don't go fast the first time you read it. This Fox is a tricky fox, he'll try to get your tongue in trouble!

A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father.

A boy imagines the rare and wonderful fish he might catch in McElligot's pool.

A squirrel sneaks into a city apartment and a young child tries to come up with a solution that will help the squirrel find its way back outside.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal a parent's musings about what a child will become, knowing that the child's kindness, cleverness, and boldness will shine through no matter what, as will the love they share.

A boy is so sleepy that he vows nothing will get him out of his morning bed, neither peas and beans nor the United States Marines.