Bent Northrop Memorial Library

Even the roughest, toughest readers will want to turn off their engines and snuggle up with these sweet and soothing stories. Gentle rhyming text and vibrant art make these books surefire bedtime favorites for train- and construction-crazy kids everywhere.

When a little girl asks her mother about princesses, she learns that they are much like herself.

Illustrations and simple text help the reader understand the numbers one to ten and recognize them as they appear all around us, especially at bedtime. Includes note to parents.

Illustrations and rhyming text portray a young bear searching for its mother and meeting many North American animals along the way.

As night falls in the jungle, all sorts of animals settle down to sleep.

A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns that new teeth grow, and hair and skin replace themselves.

One day the Spanish ambassador moves into the Parisian house next door to Miss Clavel, Madeline, and her 11 classmates. And, His Excellency has a boy! Pepito, as he is named, is not just any boy: according to Madeline, he is a "bad hat"--for starters, he's equipped with an irksome slingshot, he "ghosts," and he boasts. And when Miss Clavel gives him a box of tools to function as an "outlet for his energy," he makes a guillotine for the cook's chickens....

Numbers from one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree in this rhyming chant.