Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.

"When mouse widow Mrs. Frisby needs advice on how to move her children safely, she consults the rats who live under the rosebush. Not only do they help her, they tell her of their escape from a laboratory where experimentation had made them literate, and of the brave death of her husband. Newbery Medal; ALA Notable Children's Book; "Horn Book" Fanfare Book."--Provided by publisher.

Briefly introduces various types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossilized dinosaur bones.

Follow the rhyming chain of events linking people and animals to the house that Jack built.

"When ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her father, she doesn't know what to expect - least of all, that she'll adopt Winn-Dixie, a dog she names after the supermarket where they meet. Right away, Opal knows she can tell Winn-Dixie anything - like the fact that lately she's been thinking a lot about her mother, who left when Opal was three. And that her father, the preacher, won't talk about her mother at all. And that she's...

With the help of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician and Steven Kellogg, the concepts of a million, a billion, and a trillion are explained.

Suggests many unpleasant things that can be done with and to snakes, as well as some very unpleasant things they might do to even the bravest child when they slither from beneath the bed and fill the house.

Pup-Pup loves blowing bubbles and does not like having best friend, Bobo, pop all of them, but when Pup-Pup uses super strong bubble mix, bubble trouble ensues.

Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Liontheyre now as beloved a part of American folklore as Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan. Since its first publication in 1900, L. Frank Baum's story of a little girl carried away by a tornado to the strange and beautiful Land of Oz has had an extraordinary emotional impact on wide-eyed readers young and old. As Dorothy journeys down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, hoping the Great...