Hurd, Edith Thacher

Describes the dependent relationship of a joey to his mother until he grows old enough to leave her and join a kangaroo mob of his own.

Traces five years in the life of a mother whale as she gives birth to a calf, cares for him, mates, and finally gives birth again.

Wilson starts out painting a picture of a beautiful world but keeps adding so many people and cities that soon his world is not fit to live in.

Until his father brings him some boots, a young lion searches for ways to entertain himself on a rainy day.

Johnny had a bad cold and the medicine he took as well as the dreams he had were terrible.

A duck and a monkey have a race in which they use their wits and every available convenience from a horse to a submarine.

Miss Mugs comes to stay with Suzie, and washes everything in sight, then finds nothing clean enough for her taste when they go the zoo.

When his parents go out hunting, Johnny Lion stays home and reads his book, about another little lion who goes out into the world and gets lost.