A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

A young boy is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.

Hondo the dog gets to go to the beach and play with his friend Fred, while Fabian the cat spends the day at home.

A young girl describes where she finds colors in both the world around her and beyond what she can see.

A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him.

A small green inchworm is proud of his skill at measuring anything--a robin's tail, a flamingo's nick, a toucan's beak. Then one day a nightingale threatens to eat him hi he cannot measure his song.

A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this beautifully illustrated interactive guessing book. Explains how a lot of animals use their noses, ears, tails, eyes, mouths, and feet in very different ways.

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.

An illustrated version of the well-known poem about a wily spider who preys on the vanity and innocence of a little fly.