Roger Duvoisin

The barnyard friends of Crocus the crocodile love and admire him for his fierce-looking teeth. When he must have them pulled, life changes for all the animals.

After some experimenting, Petunia discovers that the grass on her side of the fence is better than any other.

Happy lion, who lives in a friendly French zoo, finds out unhappily that the villagers aren't nearly as nice to him when he is outside the zoo as they are when he is safely inside his cage.

Instead of heaps of gold, a leprechaun provides his master with lots of trouble.

Hector the Penguin is captured and forced to live in a zoo where he falls in love with another penguin named Christina.

"What was happening to the world, the frog wondered, and what could he do? The hungry frog decided he must hop to the top of the well to see what he could of the end of the world. Conquering his fear, he peered out, and what did he see? Trees, flowers, meadows, marshes, and all kinds of end-of-the-world creatures! Entranced, the little frog ventured forth to find out more about the world outside his own.

A precious antique doll is lonesome in the antique store window, hoping a girl will buy her, but when she is finally sold, it is to an old woman with a houseful of antiques. Includes a 14 cm. paperback reprint of the story, "A book just like Marie's book for Marie's doll."

Corduroy longs for someone to take him home, but he searches for his missing button around the department store first. When the zookeeper leaves the door open, the happy lion decides to walk through town to visit his friends. Big diesel engines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his old steam shovel, Mary Anne, out of business. A mother's love and a baby's smile bond the two together. Silly Auntie will try anything to get Baby to smile. Two owls discover...