When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard.

Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.

Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.

Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.

A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well. Al, a janitor, and his faithful dog, Eddie, live in a single room on the West Side. They eat together, they work together, they do everything together. So what's the problem? Thier room is crowded and cramped; their life is an endless struggle. Al...

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring a friend--and the friends are always wild animals--and always well-behaved.

Relates the story of the author's grandparents and parents, who, though not famous, helped build the United States.

Katy's Easter morning discovery renews the tradition of the Easter egg tree.