It’s Epossumondas's birthday, so Mama's whipping up his favorite biscuits. But she's plumb out of sody sallyraytus! (That's baking soda to all you Yankees.) Everybody knows you can’t make big, fluffy biscuits without sody. One by one, Baby Gator, Auntie, and Mama scoot to the store to fetch some. But when no one comes back, it’s up to Epossumondas to run out and see what’s what--until h…
The amazing tricks two American soldiers perform on a borrowed bicycle are a fitting finale for the school sports day festivities in a small village in occupied Japan.
A little girl named Holly lives in a house that has a front door with a cat flap. But poor Holly doesn't have cat. One night, Holly makes a wish upon a star. She wishes for a kitten, but instead she gets a big surprise. It's a crash at her bedroom window silland gazing through the glass, she finds herself looking at the biggest, scruffiest cat she's ever seen in her life. "It's a mistake!" cr…
Tales old and new combine in this colourful collection of stories, specially written with bedtime in mind! Bongo the clown had a bit of a problem. Clowns were supposed to be happy, funny, jolly people, but Bongo was a very sad clown. Nothing at all seemed to make him laugh.
When Marisol is eight, her father is killed and she and her mother and little brothers have to flee the bright, warm world of Latin America and go to North America. Marisol feels confused and isolated in the northern, wintry place that is not yet home. Every day she thinks longingly of her dead father and the world she left behind. But one night Marisol has a special dream. She sees her moth…
It's the day of the Golden Kites. Little Ho travels to the Palace Gardens to watch the noblemen fly their magnificent kites. When the Great Lord Emperor comes to choose the best one, Little Ho dares to produce his own small kite. Will the soldiers strike him down? But the boy's courage and love of life win him a suprising new friend. Mavis Scott is a writer and storyteller from Queensland w…
In this story based on a young girl's true-life experiences, Ut, a Vietnamese child separated from her family, recounts her attempts to come to terms with a new country and a new life and to reunite her family. Little Ut from Vietnam wins her schoolmates over with kindness and sensitivity.
Sally Cat and her friends can't wait to be a part of the Busytown Easter egg hunt in Richard Scarry's "There Really Is an Easter Bunny," but Billy Dog and his friends don't believe the Easter bunny exists. When Hilda Hippo tries to help, everyone, including Hilda, gets a big surprise in the end!
"A delightful book that addresses current issues for children with warmth and empathy". -- Denyse Kapelus, Director, Professional Nannies Institute"I hate goodbye words ... more than biting into cookies that Look like chocolate chip cookies, but are really full of raisins". From being sent to bed to being dropped off at daycare, from watching More and Dad go off to work to watching friends and …
When Mr. Frumble, who has had his pickle car repaired by Mr. Fixit after an accident, is told that he won't recognize it, he drives away in every vehicle that he doesn't recognize--from a bulldozer that digs a hole in front of city hall to an airplane that crashes into a tree.