Martin, Bill

Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper.

Two girls' teams, the Cardinals and the Blue Jays, play a close and intense game of basketball.

A wizard and his assistant cast a spell that ends up making the wizard disappear.

Instead of getting ready for school, Kitty Cat finds all kinds of activities to distract, until she realizes the bus is coming for her.

Chicken Chuck the rooster, who has set himself up as boss of the barnyard by virtue of the special blue feather in the middle of his forehead, finds his authority undermined by a circus horse with two blue feathers.

In this rhyming story, children describe the sights and sounds of riding on the merry-go-round.

The owner of a human body celebrates it by pointing out various parts and mentioning their functions, from "hands for catching and throwing" to the "skin that bundles me in.".

Pictures accompany a brief rhyming text describing the antics and sounds of a musician's recital.

Numbers from one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree in this rhyming chant.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text describe the new adventures each month brings.