Picture puffins

Depicts a variety of very large machines, including tower cranes, a dockyard crane, an oil production platform, and a concrete silo.

Text and pictures introduce large machines, such as a dump truck, various types of cranes, and spacecraft.

A father describes for his son how each animal on the farm goes to sleep.

Everyone in little Hue Boy's island village has suggestions on how to help him grow, but he learns to stand tall in a way all his own.

The Baby Blue Cat loves to say "no" to everything from Mama Cat's delicious supper to a bedtime story.

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

When Chinye is sent into the forest one night by her cruel stepmother, she encounters an old woman who tells her where to find a a magic gourd holding wealth and riches.

When the other engines refuse, the Little Blue Engine tries to pull a stranded train full of toys and good food over the mountain.