After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.

Presents the lives of the presidents, focusing on their roles as parents, husbands, pet owners, and neighbors, while also including humorous anecdotes about hairstyles, attitudes, diets, fears, and sleep patterns.

Profiles twenty historically significant women, highlighting their great accomplishments and unique quirks; also includes color caricatures.

Three clever billy goats outwit a big ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up to the mountain.

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. Awarded the Newbery Medal, 1972.

A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the gerneral store.

Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St. until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that.

Everyone knows that Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks. From the turkey on the table to warm, cozy cuddles, life is full of small things and bigger pleasures. But what is most important is being able to share them with family.

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very...

When Owen sends a real hug to his grandmother for her birthday, he inadvertently brings cheer to the postal workers as they pass the hug along.