Although she is not very big, the Little Blue Engine agrees to try to pull a stranded train full of toys over the mountain, in the classic re-illustrated.

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.

Jemima Puddle-duck is determined to hatch her own eggs. But she needs a quiet place to build her nest. The spot she chooses, guarded by an elegantly dressed gentleman, looks safe enough but turns out to be a very dangerous place indeed.

Mr. McGregor interupts the Flopsy Bunnies' afternoon nap by tossing them into his sack. He wants to sell them to buy tobacco, and his wife wants a soft new lining for her cloak! A friend uses her sharp teeth to save the bunnies.

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.

"If you run away," said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny." A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek. Children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time. The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its...

Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.

A little bird asks animals, planes, and boats, "Are you my mother?" until he finds his own mother.

Gossie is a gosling who likes to wear bright red boots every day, no matter what she is doing, and so she is heartbroken the day the boots are missing and she can't find them anywhere.

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. Farmer Brown thinks it's odd when he hears the sounds of typing coming from the barn, but his troubles really begin when his cows start leaving him notes. First they demand better working conditions, then they stage a strike!