Andy and Amy try to decide what kind of dog they would like to adopt.

Harry Hippo takes a bath, plays in the water, and cleans up afterwards.

When the first snow of the year falls on the first day of winter, all the snow people have a snow party.

Illustrations and spare text take the reader on a journey in perspective that follows a rocket's travels from a child's bedroom to outer space and home again, emphasizing such concepts as near and far, above and below, middle, front, and back.

"Most of the time, Rosebud is Good Princess Rosebud, but she can become Princess Fussy. This new rendition of The Princess and the Pea features a little girl who needs certain things to be 'just so.'"--

"One day a family of crows moves into Isabel and Matt's yard. Isabel wants them gone. She tries everything to get the crows to leave. Finally, Matt has the solution."--Cover back.

On Tuesday, Mr. Bunsen brings a Styrofoam cooler containing 200 live animals for class.

"With bright art done in the Japanese anime style, each book in this interactive early reading series features three different word families. When kids flip the pages, they get a new word and image within that word family. Word families help children recognize similarities between words that rhyme, and help them connect words with similar long or short vowel sounds. This familiarity helps kids read a word they don't necessarily know"--

As Max imagines himself as the super hero--Mighty Max--while at the beach, he saves a game, a castle, and his lunch from some hungry gulls.