Bauer, Marion Dane

Simple rhymes tell why kittens, bears, kangaroos, and other animals behave the way they do.

As a child makes a Mother's Day card, various animal mothers are shown taking care of their young.

The overwhelming love of parents for their new baby is gloriously portrayed in warm, loving poetry accompanied by lush, glowing oil paintings of a radiantly rosy-cheeked young child.

Pictures and rhyming text show how some fathers, animal, bird, and human, take care of their children by bringing them food, playing with them, and keeping them safe.

The author explores the influences that led her to become a writer including the importance of inspiration.

Simple text and illustrations introduce early readers to the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus.

Simply describes how various baby animals come into the world and what happens when a human baby is born.

When her great-grandmother is placed in a nursing home, a twelve-year-old is sent to a foster home where the fanatically religious father presses his attentions on her.

One brown bunny goes out one day and finds many friends who would like to play.

After discovering a tiny, delicate, china doll in an old trunk, Rose is amazed when the doll comes to life, claiming to be a princess, and starts ordering Rose about.