Mercer Mayer

Little Critter has a happy Easter going to church, coloring eggs, having a picnic lunch, and hunting for Easter eggs.

Sharing with one's little sister can be an awful bother, but it has its rewards too.

A child tries a variety of ways to dissolve anger.

A child imagines all the things to be done when one is bigger.

Little Critter and his classmates take a trip to the firehouse and learn to stop, drop, and roll with Fireman Joe.

All he wants is a puppy, but he gets a triceratops instead! When a boy asks his mother for a pet, she says no. Then the boy finds a giant dinosaur egg at his neighbor's yard sale. The neighbor, Mr. Jerry, claims the dinosaur egg is real. That night, a baby triceratops hatches and leads the boy on a dinosaur adventure. "Do something," says Mom when her house becomes surrounded by a prehistoric herd. Soon the boy makes the dinosaurs disappear. And

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In his dream, Little Critter turns into a monster that is so scary that he can do whatever he wants, but he discovers that he does not like being alone.

"Hooray! It is a snow day! And what a perfect time to make a snowman. But Little Sister needs help putting on her boots, Dad needs a hand with shoveling, and Gator wants to build a fort. Will Little Critter ever get to build a snowman?"