Barney Saltzberg

"Two mice--one big and one small--have a terrible problem. Little Mouse is looking for a story--they're in a book, after all!--and Big Mouse has to admit the truth. The story is gone. And (gasp!) he ate it. That is not okay with Little Mouse, who is all ready to hear a story and will settle for nothing less." -- Provided by publisher.

"Points out the differences between subjects and celebrates them" --

There's a new baby in the house. Is Cornelius P. Mud ready? Not really! The baby may be getting all the attention, but he isn't very much fun. He can't talk. He can't eat. He can't play. Can they send him back? Does Mom love the baby best? Of course, fans of Cornelius know that even the arrival of a sibling won't get this resourceful little piggy down for long. When he trots out his good humor, and his gift for entertainment, he soon discovers that...

"A spirited celebration of the love and affection we feel for our most treasured books." -- From dust jacket.

The night before Lena's first soccer game, her father tells her a story about how his mother used to act bizarre at his soccer games and embarrass him.

Each of twenty-six poems describes the antics and habits of a zany classroom pet whose name begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

We're all in the same boat, both literally and metaphorically, in this playful look at how we can work together for the common good. The animals in this boat discover that working together gets them much further and is more fun than trying to go their separate ways.

"Some little ones want to be princesses; others want to be dragons. The message of this book is that you can actually be both! There are lots of things you can be: a little wild, a little sweet. A little polite, a little troublesome. A little dainty, a little dragony"--

Cornelius the pig has his own style when preparing for school in the morning, but he does not really feel ready until he gets a kiss.