A rhyming story of Silly Sally, who makes many friends as she travels to town-- backward and upside down.

"This dad is not like other dads. He is not good at mowing the lawn or getting his children to school on time but, he is good at making mazes and getting his children to school eventually. And this is what makes him so special"--

Told entirely in birdsong, peeks behind the curtain into the glorious musicality of birds. Includes information about birds in the cast.

The ten Garbage Pail Kids leave their town of Smellville to get into mischief at summer camp together.

Illustrations and lyrical text describe a bird's adventure walking down the road and meeting an odd donkey with three legs and one eye.

Greedy Llama travels back in time to eat his marvelous birthday donut a second time, but a Baby Llama follows him to the present, and soon his house is a chaos of cave llamas, barbarian bunnies, and Viking pigs.

It is not always easy for a dinosaur to learn how to be kind, but with a liitle practice, and keeping other people firmly in mind, he can become a one-of-a-kind, very kind dinosaur.

Two tales, set in a time when animals and human beings still talked to each other, display Thomas King s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early chapter book, these stories are perfect for newly independent readers.

The class is going to take a field trip, but no one knows where, so the kids are letting their imaginations run wild.

Twelve-year-old Edie and her impossibly cool cousin, Rae, set out to complete a mysterious list of "Good Ideas for Summertime" that their eccentric late grandmother wrote back when she was their age. But good ideas? Most of them seem like bad ideas. Reckless. Foolish. Ridiculous. Still, by accomplishing everything on the list, rule-abiding Edie feels certain that she can become the effortlessly brave adventurer she dreams of being, just like her daring...