Michael Foreman

On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket-watch, joins a mad tea party and plays croquet with the Queen. Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.

A collection of stories, drawn from the tales Kipling's Indian nurses told to him, in which Kipling creates the enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. The laziness of the Camel, the curiosity of the Elephant Child, the cleverness of the hedgehog, the confusions of the Painted Jaguar and all the rest of Kipling's delightful menagerie come alive. Offers Kipling's well-known imaginative animal story collection...

The littlest dinosaur discovers the advantages of being small as he frolics among the lily pads with his new frog friends, and then bravely finds his way home after getting lost in the woods.

The littlest dinosaur thinks he is too small to do much of anything, until his family and neighbors are in trouble and need his help.

A boy describes what it feels like to score a goal that makes his soccer teammates stop teasing him.

An alphabet book giving a Mother Goose rhyme for each letter, such as Three Blind Mice for the letter "M."

Curious George rides a bike: The man in the yellow hat gives Curious George a brand new bicycle. The great white man-eating shark: Norvin, a boy who closely resembles a shark, uses his talents to scare away all the swimmers at Caramel Cove, except for one female shark in love. Flossie & the fox: Flossie meets up with a clever fox who has been making trouble around town. Cat & canary: A city cat who lives out his fantasy of being able to fly finds...

Dog takes care of a trio of kittens when their mother, Cat, gets trapped in a fisherman's van while trying to find breakfast.

An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's playsin narrative form, retaining much of the original language, andthus the flavor of the bard's dramas.

"Will fire imaginations and elicit the heart-pumping, wide-eyed response that has kept this tale alive and vigorous through the ages." — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

Long ago a Scandinavian warrior fought three evils so powerful they threatened whole kingdoms. Standing head and shoulders above his comrades, Beowulf single-handedly saved the land of the Danes from a merciless ogre named Grendel

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