Illustrations and simple rhyming text depict the race to construct railroads across the country during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Five little kittens get bathed with Mama's tongue, enjoy breakfast, play and do their chores, have fish soup at lunchtime, and go to bed.

Donut is a unicorn with a problem: she cannot fly--so she works with all the other creatures in the field and finally accomplishes her goal.

An exuberant eight-year-old details for his teacher and classmates the astonishing variety of inventive careers he is thinking of pursuing when he grows up.

Rhyming text and color illustrations depict a child's dream about being a dinosaur.

With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free, and every summer after that butterflies come to visit her.

Grandad bakes Grandma a whopper of a birthday cake. Includes recipe and directions for chocolate cake.

While showing her timid gal pals the wonders of the woods, brave Nadine the cow discovers that she is not entirely fearless.