children's stories

The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

Follows a river from its source as a mountain stream formed from melting snow, as it rushes over rocks and through valleys to the busy city, and finally to its end, where it joins the sea.

Arthur has to write a story as a homework assignment and keeps changing his idea of what to write as he talks to his friends.

Paddington Bear tries to help out Mr. Gruber, but often Paddington's help creates more problems than it solves.

Paddington and the Brown family have a series of misadventures on their vacation in France.

Sarah decides to do her third-grade report on the country of England but later discovers England is not very interesting. Then Sarah goes on a sleepover that is filled with surprises and she comes up with a new idea.

Continues the adventures of the very small bear who becomes part of the Brown family of London.

Eleven-year-old Flor is saddened when her mother leaves the family and Flor's best friend moves away, but a new friend--the daughter of a geologist who comes to Moonpenny Island in search of fossils--provides Flor with a fresh take on life.

When a kind servant gives a lonely young Prince a special pen with invisible ink, the Prince sets out creating a world only he can see. Then, when he discovers a trap door to an attic with a window that leads outside, the Prince has a chance to live out his dreams in the real world.

When two pigeons that Sarah wants as pets move from her Chicago apartment's window ledge to the building next door, Sarah tries to figure out how to get them to come back.