Betsy Lewin

An incident on Groundhog Day reveals the true relationship between Phil the groundhog and his shadow.

"Thumpy thumpy thumpy thump thumpy. Spend a day with Thumpy Feet, a spirited orange cat"--

Pépe, a young blue-footed booby, is born on a tiny island and grows until he is old enough to mate and help create a new little booby.

A child adds up the cats owned by ten different people and discovers that it is a lot of cats.

All of the barnyard animals are excited about the arrival of a new duckling, until the noisy little one refuses to go to sleep.

Brief rhymes describe the favorite food of various animals. Includes recipe for making bread-dough animals.

Little Duck celebrates his first birthday with the other animals on the farm by copying their examples, from shearing off all his feathers to taking a mudbath, before enjoying Farmer Brown's yummy frosted maple cake.

A mischievous monster named Wiley learns how to spell.

When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.