Shulevitz, Uri

Relates the doings of the Emperor of Pickleberry and his ingenious talking bird Lou.

A child indoors watches the rain on the window and in the streets and tells how it falls on the fields, hills, and seas.

Quiet, serious Jeremiah Hush, a monkey who lives alone, becomes involved in adventures at the Shake'n'Roll Dancin Hole, during a search for a missing umbrella, and while attending a county fair, and though he makes new friends, he learns to appreciate his quiet life.

As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.

A playing-card-type king, queen, prince and their entourage march gaily through a young hero's daydream.

Camped for the night by a lake, a boy and his grandfather experience dawn from their row boat.

A young child spends the day imagining himself to be a sailor on a grand adventure.

The king is so pleased with an old man's sincerity, cleverness, and wisdom that he dismisses his jealous and greedy chief counselor and appoints the old man in his place.

The king and the queen and their growing entourage return each morning to a tenement street until the little boy they have come to visit is home to greet them.

A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.