Leonard Weisgard

Marco Loristan, a twelve-year-old refugee, and his friend, a hunchback orphan named The Rat, embark on a dangerous journey across Europe to bring freedom to Marco's beleaguered homeland of Samavia.

"The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, [so] that the true Plays of Shakespeare may prove to them in older years -- enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions." --

Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.

"Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi's years of learning and travel and Heidi makes use of what she has learned. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children". Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known...

A Bunny finds an egg with something moving inside of it, and when a baby duck pecks his way out of the egg, the two animals become friends.

"The animals cooperate in decorating a great fir tree in celebration of Christmas."--

A little dog goes to the country and hears the sounds of donkeys, squirrels, turkeys, owls, crickets, pigs, and frogs.

A little dog goes for a ride and hears the clip-clop of a horse's hoofs, the ring of a cow bell, and many other sounds of the country in summertime.

All day and night the traffic signal blinks its messages of stop and go.