A group of costumed mice are frolicking in the pumpkin patch when they hear the swish, swish of a creeping cat. Off they run, but they don't just turn tail. Using a light and a mask, they throw a shadow that frightens away the cat for good. Simple sentences and lots of onomatopoeia make the text as appealing as the energetic watercolor-and-pen artwork. A fun read for Halloween story hours

A big brown bear turns blue while painting when a little bear playing with her baseball bat accidentally knocks him off his ladder.

A child naps like the cat, flaps like the hen, swims like the duck, and imitates the other animals on the farm.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text describe what a child sees around the house and garden.

When Pat, Mom, and Dad mysteriously lose some of their things, the family dog helps find them.

A group of mice have some problems when they put on a play to commemorate the first Thanksgiving, but everything works out all right in the end.

Friends Gossie and Gertie are waiting and waiting for Ollie to hatch. They try poking, listening to, even sitting on top of his egg--but Ollie is Ollie and he will decide when it's time to hatch.

BooBoo the gosling likes to eat from morning until night and thinks everything is "good food"--well, almost everything!

Chuck and his barnyard friends form a band, but they have trouble finding an instrument for Fat Cat Pat to play, since all the cat wants to do is sleep all day.

Ollie watches the other goslings dye and hide eggs for the Easter hunt, but no one can find the eggs when Ollie decides that they are all for him.