Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.

When children are fast asleep, some people are hard at work keeping the city safe and clean, and when daylight comes they go home to sleep.

When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.

Thanksgiving time is here again, but there's a turkey on the run! Can you catch this tricky bird before the school play has begun?

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her. Includes CD.

"The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes."--Amazon.com viewed April 4, 2022.

Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.

"In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school...

Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.

A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally.