Two adventurous ducklings get a little too carried away in a tale of a mother-and-ducky reunion that toddlers are sure to appreciate.Seymour and Henry love to play and can’t wait to jump in the pond. Plop! But when it’s time to go home, pit-a-pat, they run away, scampering farther and farther from their mother. Now it’s starting to rain, and Mommy is nowhere to be seen. "QUACK!" Can they find their way back? And what will their mommy do then? With her trademark soft pastels, Kim Lewis brings to life an endearing pair of toy ducklings and an ever-patient mom.

In an adorable picture book, Annie, who loves her new puppy Bess, learns how to listen closely and figure out what her newfound friend wants! By the creator of Floss.

Five short stories starring pioneer girl Kirsten are followed by brief actual accounts of what frontier life was like.

Five short stories starring pioneer girl Kirsten are followed by brief actual accounts of what frontier life was like.

Harry the elephant is helped by his toy friends, Lulu and Ted, to jump from a little grassy hill on a beautiful summer day.

Tormented by her past, young Gally Martin seeks the sanctuary of Penselwood, a crumbling cottage deep in Somerset, England, and the growing and unexpectedly intimate friendship with Ferney, an eighty-three-year-old man. Reprint.

Floss lives in the city and loves to go to the park and play ball with the children. But her owner's son is a farmer and needs a new sheepdog, so the border collie moves to a Northumberland farm and must learn how to round up the sheep. This is a picture book with an accompanying CD read by actor Martin Jarvis.

'Goodnight, everyone,' says Harry. 'Zzz,' goes Lulu. 'Snore,' goes Ted. But Harry the elephant can't get to sleep. He reads and tidies, he wriggles and worries. Will sleep ever come to Harry? Perhaps his friends Ted and Lulu can help... Children everywhere will have no trouble falling asleep with this delightful soft toy Harry to cuddle up to!

With snuggly images that look soft enough to touch, the creator of Floss tells a bedtime story certain to soothe the most restless child as Harry the elephant has a hard time falling asleep. Jr Lib Guild.

This story is about a little girl called Willa, who moves with her family to a new home, where she meets Old Miss Annie. At first Willa is afraid of the old woman because of her woolly hair and tiny voice and bumpy, twisted hands. But soon they become the best of friends.

Ten-year-old Kirsten regrets the promise she has made to a ragged boy she discovers alone near a wrecked covered wagon not far from her Minnesota home.

A mother tells her baby about the farm they live on and the various animals there, as she stitches images of their home into a new quilt.

When a little fox's mother says it is getting too late to play, he decides that he's not going to be friends with her anymore. But as the daylight fades the little fox wonders whether it wouldn't be such a bad idea to stay friends with his mother.

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Little Baa becomes separated from the rest of the sheep, but he is soon reunited with his Ma.

Floss the sheep dog has a litter of puppies and Floss's owners want to keep the one that is just like Floss.

Katie watches as the newborn calf on her farm takes its first wobbly steps and then skitters back to its mother to drink her milk.

A young girl welcomes a new puppy that is born on her family's farm.

Katie feeds milk from a bottle to a newborn lamb and watches as it learns its way around her farm.

A young boy takes his stuffed elephant everywhere he goes, including on vacation and even on a visit to school

Little Max wants a closer look at the huge red tractor which passes by his house, so when his friend takes him for a walk to watch it at work, he is delighted

Sam overhears clucking in the henhouse on the day Alice comes to play, and realizing that an egg has been laid, the duo endeavors to find the egg and carry it back to the farmhouse without breaking it.

When Emma's father brings home a lost lamb, Emma is totally thrilled and tends to the little animal with the greatest of care, but soon she realizes that the lamb has to be reunited with its mother and must be returned even though she wishes she could keep it forever.

Product Description: With Daddy sick at home, Mommy, Sara, and Sara's toy teddy bear set out across the windy English dales to put out hay for the sheep, but when the snow begins to fall, Sara's teddy is left behind.