John Manders

Grandpa Crow gathers the forest critters together for a party in a tree.

Jack the cat gets much more than he bargained for when he decides to build the perfect nest to attract the perfect chicken.

One hot summer day, four bored children start a watermelon seed-spitting battle that soon spreads throughout their town.

A humorous adaptation of the folktale Goldilocks and the three bears, which portrays the bears as "libearians" and Goldie Socks finds just the right book and the perfect place to read it.

Brothers Francis and Johnny Billington take issue with history's account of their troublemaking ways aboard the Mayflower and in the New World, as they tell their side of the story to Standish Brewster, professor of Pilgrimology at Plimouth University.

"This lively tale of a visit from the Santa of sailors on an aircraft carriers will become a Christmas favorite of families who have a loved one serving in the military--or who love stories of adventure on the high seas!"--Page 4 of cover.

Introduces Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who, during their exploration of the West for Thomas Jefferson, captured a prairie dog and sent it to the President as a gift.

One deep, dark night, as all of the monsters are preparing for bed, Little Baby Mummy bravely searches for his mother until he sees a truly terrifying creature.

A rhyming tale of pirates who go to school accompanied by their parrots, learn arithmetic and letters, and want to hear sea stories at storytime.

Illustrations and rhyming text present a night full of scary creatures and spooky sights, one for each letter of the alphabet.