Hondo the dog has a fun day at the beach while Fabian the cat stays home. " Wake up, Hondo. Time to go!" Hondo will have an adventure. Fabian will stay home. A dog named Hondo and his friend Fr…
The bee and the fox, the sheep and the ox--two of each kind trudged aboard Noah's famous vessel. Peter Spier uses his own translation of a seventeenth-century Dutch poem about this most famous mena…
I like the red jacket. I like the blue jacket.
Favourite stories are retold in a lively natural language to help children to develop the confidence to read alone. Henny Penny and her friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is fa…
One morning, Hansel and Gretel's mother said to the children, "Today you'll both go to town to take a message for me." "But be careful,"she warned them, "and don't leave the road, you could get lost.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was loved by everyone who knew her. Her grandmother was so fond of the child that she delighted in giving her presents. Once she made her a beautiful…
My tiger is very sloppy. He spills his milk and wipes his face on the tablecloth. He never puts away his toys. It takes me all morning to clean up his room.
The tale of the Powhatan princess from the Virginia woodlands is one of the best known and most loved in American history. While myth and legend have clouded some of the details, time has not dimin…
There was once a King and Queen who were childless. They prayed that they might have a family and, at last, their prayers were answered and the Queen gave birth to a a very beautiful daughter.
It was a mistake to take my sloppy tiger to school. When he saw the computer, he got very excited. He bounded over to it and hit all keys at once. "Computers are not for tigers," said the te…