French, Vivian

A girl learns about caterpillars and butterflies as she watches her grandfather grow them on the nettles in his garden.

Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus embark on a dwarf-watching outing, not knowing that the dwarves are working frantically making crowns for a royal wedding and that they have enlisted some unreliable trolls to help them, thus putting the humans' expedition in peril.

On Gracie Gillypot's birthday, greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, and unless Gracie can find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg, the Five Kingdoms may succumb to evil magic and Total Oblivion.

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.

Trying to be helpful to Red Rooster, Big Fat Hen wakes the animals too early.

When Hairy Goat complains he is hungry, Big Fat Hen decides she'll find him something to eat - with hilarious results.

Tells the story of Soft Ear, an eight-month-old caribou who follows her mother on the annual migration to the calving grounds of the barren North.

Retells, in rap-rhythms, ten fables from the Greek slave, Aesop.

Rhyming text and pictures of animals teach young readers the alphabet.

An adaptation of Dickens's story in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas after three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.