Lists and Suggestions for Kids

A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

Amos the mouse and Boris the whale have little in common except that they are both mammals and save each other's lives.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.

Freddy hates being the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school play.

While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves a special patch for her pet hen Josefina.

Also available in Overdrive. Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.

Also available in Hoopla. When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the underground railroad.

Also available in Overdrive. Finding an intergalactic special agent in his cereal box, Richard joins the extraterrestrial in a fight to save Earth from the Dranes, one of whom is masquerading as a student in Richard's class.

Ruddy is disappointed when his parents go on a cruise and he must stay with his fussy grandmother for a whole week, but an unexpected snowstorm reveals a surprising side of Grandmother Silk.

The Littles are a family of tiny people who live in the Bigg family's house. Mr. Little is only six inches tall, and he is big for a Little. The Littles develop a plan to get rid of the mice in the Bigg's house.

Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.

Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.