Bent Northrop Memorial Library

A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads. As soon as they say good night to Mama, the five little monkeys start to jump on their bed. But trouble lies ahead as, one by one, they fall off and hurt themselves. After the doctor issues a stern order--No more monkeys jumping on the bed!--they finally fall asleep.

Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.

A counting book depicting the growth in a village and surrounding countryside during twelve months.

Cats of all shapes and sizes scamper, yawn, and stretch across the pages of this playful counting book. And every now and then, some of them pile into the purrfect cat stack!

Five little penguins flee from a seal, flying through the water, and find themselves in an innocent game of tag.

In rhyming verses, one animal after another neighs, moos, oinks, quacks and makes other appropriate sounds as each eats an apple from the farmer's tree.

Charlie, the smallest child in his first grade class, is amazed to discover that of the three pumpkins his teacher brings to school, the tiniest one has the most seeds.

A snowman comes alive as the child building it adds pieces during the first ten days of winter.

"Sing along with Pete the Cat in his groovy adaptation of the classic children's song "Five Little Ducks." (Back cover)

In this story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten, we realize that families can be many things.