A young girl is upset and doesn't know how to manage her anger but takes the time to cool off and regain her composure.

Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance. When this book begins, the trombone is playing all by itself. But soon a trumpet makes a duet, a French horn a trio, and so on until the entire orchestra is assembled on stage. Written in elegant and rhythmic verse and illustrated with playful and flowing artwork, this unique counting book is the perfect introduction to musical groups. Readers of all ages are sure to shout "Encore!"...

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

A little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a way of protecting them all from their natural enemies.

A portrait of a man whose dream changed America, and the world, forever.

Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.

A poor Japanese woman maneuvers events to change the lazy habits of her son.

On her way home from school, Pearl finds an unusual bone that has unexpected powers.

Ben wants to be a trumpeter, but plays only an imaginary instrument until one of the musicians in a neighborhood night club discovers his ambition.

The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom.