city and town life

Rhyming text and photographs celebrate the sights and people of the city.

A rainbow after a shower brings pleasure to three cranky people and helps them find what they were looking for.

The city streets become a jungle, then a desert, as a child forges her way to school, observing and avoiding all the wild animals posing as trees, chimneys, fences, and even fruit.

Twenty-six black-and-white drawings of scenes of city life suggest words beginning with each letter of the alphabet.

Because Nora and her brother live in an apartment, personal privacy, making friends, and finding places to play are sometimes a problem.

Ten-year-old Busy O'Brien tries to raise funds for the town's Meal Mobile by organizing the Great Bubblegum Blowout.

The further adventures and misadventures of nine-year-old Ali Baba Bernstein.

When a stranger comes to Kosnov and accuses Mendel the butcher of stealing his money, the whole town joins in to show the police who is really guilty.

Describes life in a big city and on a farm near a village.

After thirteen-year-old Goody becomes a hero in his small town for saving a choking infant, he must cope with the pressures of fame and the schemes of his ambitious mother.