Quackenbush, Robert M

A small boy wonders what first grade will be like, but isn't sure that he wants to find out.

Highlights the life of the plant breeder who developed many new trees, fruit, flowers, vegetables, grains, and grasses and improved many plants and trees aleady known.

When the barn in which they have been living is knocked down, Batbaby and his parents search for a new home.

Hatched from his egg with detective's hat and magnifying glass, Sherlock Chick immediately sets out to find who has stolen the corn from the chickens' feed bin.

A boy detective uses a blank sheet of paper, a key, and a subway map to help a neighbor solve a puzzling message in a will.

Due to circumstances beyond his control, Henry arrives at Clara's birthday party just before he thinks it will end.

Henry the duck tries all sorts of methods to rid his kitchen of an ant before his guest comes to supper.

Lonely without his friend Clara who is vacationing out West, Henry the Duck decides to pay her a surprise visit.

Henry the Duck has his hands full when all the neighbors bring their babies for him to watch one day.

A biography of the nineteenth-century author whose novels of science fiction adventure predicted space travel, the submarine, and other modern achievements.