French, Vivian

A retelling of the misadventures of Lazy Jack who can never do anything right, but people find his mishaps so funny that they employ him anyway.

Auntie Jen takes Oliver to a farm, buys the special ingredients she needs, and makes him a yummy scrummy fruity frothy icy nicy tip top tasty dreamy creamy milk shake.

A mother and child watch as tadpoles develop and grow into frogs.

A king and queen are so happy with the child created for them by the flowers in their royal garden, that they become overly protective of her and shut out all the other children in their kingdom.

A retelling of the Norwegian folktale in which a magical churn repays a young girl's generosity and her mean uncle's greed.

Henny Penny and her barnyard friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they meet a hungry fox, but Henney Penny's quick thinking saves the day.

When her class presents the nativity play, Hannah shines like a star over the very special baby she finds in the audience to play the part of Jesus.

The sorceress Lady Lamorna has her heart set on a very expensive new robe, and she will stop at nothing--including kidnapping and black magic--to get the money to pay for it.

Helen, who does not know very much about spiders, is introduced to them by her cousins and finds them to be fascinating creatures.

Presents facts about the life of the tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur within the framework of a visit to a museum by a boy and his grandfather.