Frances is jealous of her sister's birthday, but birthday spirit moves her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

A frontier woman struggles to save her cabin and four children from the Indians.

When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys."

Explains how the ability of certain animals to blend with or take on the characteristics of their environment protects them from their natural enemies.

Sam, his father, and many others in Lexington are reluctant to take on the British soldiers, but when some of the Minutemen are killed and wounded, the rest unite in opposition.

Two boys find a wolf spider and through osberving it and consulting a woman at the nature center they learn its habit.

Thelma usually outsmarts Frances until Frances decides to teach her a lesson about friendship.

Edgar was a clever young dolphin but he didn't like to play his games in a small tank on the ship where he was captive.

""First published in 1970, Frog and Toad Are Friends was the first of the four beloved Frog and Toad books. This special edition contains all of the original stories--from the story about going swimming, to finding lost buttons! ... includes seven pages of rarely seen bonus material, including archival photographs, sketches, pages from the original book dummy, the manuscript of the first story "Spring" (written in Lobel's cursive on lined notebook...

Although no one else could see it, Harry was very pleased to have a horse in his room.