Bent Northrop Memorial Library

Llama Llama becomes overwhelmed as Christmas preparations progress, until his mother reminds him of the real gift the holiday brings.

A rhyming text explains from A to Z, which common items around the house can be turned into the dark, crumbly stuff we call ""compost stew"". The collage illustrations are made from some of those items to help make the point. There's a note at the end of the text listing things that are not suitable for adding to the compost bin

Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.

The Cat in the Hat leaves a big pink ring in the tub and moves it from place to place with the help of his alphabet friends.

Unable to sleep on the night of a full moon, a young boy follows the sound of music across the fields and finds an unusual barn dance in progress.

A young girl receives her wish of getting a baby sister, and as the siblings become inseparable, playing and dancing together, they make one another smarter and braver.

The day the goose gets loose, havoc reigns at the farm as all the animals react.

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.

With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school, and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.

Assorted children, animals, creatures, and objects all wonder why life is not always fair.