The wayward traveler -- Lemuel Gulliver -- ends up on a series of bizarrely populated islands. First he is a giant among little people, but then sees the situation reversed when he's surrounded by giants twelve times his size. Next he finds himself in the clouds, in a society of devoted but ultimately hapless mathematicians. Lastly, his journey brings him to an island where incredibly noble horses must deal with a race of uncouth, reviled ape-men:...

The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format.

Determined to prove that the cow he meets is really a moose, Morris the moose enlists the help of a rather confused deer and horse.

I always wanted to work in the circus," said Oliver. "I could be a dancing elephant." But the circus already has ten elephants and they don't need another one. So, Oliver must find somewhere else to go.

Because she does exactly as she is told, Amelia Bedelia is fired from one job after another. Amelia Bedelia is always getting herself into trouble! When Mrs. Rogers asks for cereal with her coffee, Amelia Bedelia does exactly what she is told; she puts cereal in the coffee. Mrs. Rogers is so angry she fires her! Poor Amelia Bedelia must look for another job. At each place she tries-the beauty shop, the dress shop, and the doctor's office-Amelia Bedelia...

When he sets out to make his own rock garden in the Brown's backyard, Paddington learns that gardening is hard work.

Paddington Bear's first visit to a new supermarket almost turns into a comic disaster, but instead he wins a prize.

Captioned color photographs portray a variety of scenery, places of interest, and people from colonial Virginia.

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.

During a day's playing in the snow, Harriet decides that her little brother Walt isn't as big a pest as she once thought he was.