A Random House pictureback

Happy Bear suffers from a sore throat just before he is to play in the Christmas pageant at school.

Scary poems by a variety of notable poets.

Depicts the hardships of the pioneers as they made their way westward from Missouri across the prairie and over the mountains to the Pacific coast.

Babar convinces Kawak the parrot not to run away following an argument, but to return to Olala's singing group.

Grover plays a game of hide and seek with the reader.

The barnyard animals run to warn one another of impending disaster: somene is eating the sun.

Retells seven of Aesop's fables including those about the goose and the golden egg, the hare and the tortoise, and the boy who cried wolf.

The popular reptiles present a rap song about drug abuse prevention.

Isabelle the elephant and Vic the rhino persist in their controversial friendship, despite the bad feelings between their respective species.

Ringalina, the Telephone Fairy, reminds Willy and Lily about good telephone manners, including taking messages for their parents and not tying up the line for long periods of time.