For beginner readers - phonic-based text is cleverly blended with a funny story Includes phonics guide for parents... and some pages have fold-out flaps!.
Little Fox is walking in the woods with Daddy, playing with leaves from the trees. Little Fox thinks the trees reach right up to the top of the sky, but Daddy Fox explains that the sky reaches much, much higher! Soon Little Fox discovers that the sky goes on forever, just like love.
A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened.
One day a very hungry fox meets a very plump goose. A dinner invitation is offered. Will dinner go as planned? Or do the dinner plans involve a secret ingredient...? (Don't forget to listen to the baby geese!)
A timeless folk song provides inspiration for some of the funniest, brightest drawings Peter Spier has ever produced. In the song, a fox forages for food in the village to bring to his family back in the den. The music is also included so everyone can sing along.
"Doctor De Soto, the dentist, did very good work." With the aid of his able assistant, Mrs. De Soto, he copes with the toothaches of animals large and small. His expertise is so great that his fortunate patients never feel any pain. Since he's a mouse, Doctor De Soto refuses to treat "dangerous" animals--that is, animals who have a taste for mice. But one day a fox shows up and begs for reli…
“One fine day a fox traveled through the great forest. When he reached the other side he was very thirsty.” The jaunty red fox stole milk from an old farm woman, lost his tail under the annoyed woman’s knife, and spent the day bargaining to get it back. Awarded the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book of 1971.
Can Pearl, a pig, and her new friend, a small talking bone, outwit a band of robbers and a hungry fox? The Amazing Bone is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, a 1977 Caldecott Honor Book, and a 1977 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Picture Books.
Favourite stories are retold in a lively natural language to help children to develop the confidence to read alone. Henny Penny and her friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they meet a hungry fox.
Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who lived all by herself in a little house in the woods. She kept her little house neat and tidy, and she did all her own washing and cooking and cleaning. Every day she went out with her little basket to pick up sticks for her fire.