Pat Hutchins

"Rosie the hen leaves the chicken coop and sets out for a little walk. Right behind her is the fox, slyly trying to catch up with her. Rosie's walk is quiet, uneventful and eventually leads her back to the coop, blissfully unaware of the fox's travails as he tries--unsuccessfully--to navigate the obstacle course that Rosie has let him through." -- Page [4] cover.

A little boy goes grocery shopping for his mother and tries hard to remember her instructions.

Because all the other animals' noises keep him from sleeping, Owl watches for a chance to take his revenge.

Titch's botanical triumph over his older siblings will delight children who are the youngest in their families.

In rhyming verses, one animal after another neighs, moos, oinks, quacks and makes other appropriate sounds as each eats an apple from the farmer's tree.

A boy helps his grandfather on the farm, showing the hen that follows them all that he can do.

Not one of Mr. Higgins' four clocks kept the correct time until the Clockmaker assured him they were all correct.

One hunter walks through the forest observed first by two elephants, then by three giraffes, etc.

Rabbit's secret message gets all mixed up as the animals whisper it to each other.

When Grandma, Ma, and Hazel Monster want to find Baby Monster, they follow the messy trail he has left.