By Audrey & Don Wood

There's a surprise in store, ready to be discovered again and again - just as little ones have done for more than twenty-five years. With this newly designed edition of their bestselling picture book, Audrey and Don Wood bring the magic of The Napping House to a new generation of young readers. So pull on your sleeping cap and snuggle in for a timeless cumulative tale that's truly like no other.

By Harve Zemach
Illustrated by Margot Zemach

A Caldecott Honor book about an unjust judge who gets a richly deserved reward.

By Michael Rosen
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

Have you ever gone on a bear hunt? Come along on this one with a brave young family.

By Paul Galdone

An old English cumulative rhyme introduces young children to their favorite farm animals with verses that prompt them to learn the sound that each animal makes.

By Nonny Hogrogian

When a thirsty fox steals some milk from an old farm woman, it sets off a chain reaction young readers will delight in following. Based on a favorite Armenian folktale, this briskly told cumulative story was awarded the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book of 1971.

By Barbara Emberley
Illustrated by Ed Emberley

Ed Emberley won the 1968 Caldecott Medal for his bold illustrations for Barbara Emberley's jaunty adaptation of the cumulative folk song about seven soldiers who build a magnificent cannon and Drummer Hoff, who fires it off.

By Jay O'Callahan
Illustrated by Will Moses

A Carle Museum "Top of the Shelf" Book.
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Simon was born to bake. His treats are so famous, people come from far and wide to taste them. But his whole world turns upside down when his bakery closes. Seems like now everthing Simon touches falls flat! Until, almost magically, he meets a young girl who remembers Simon's many kindnesses and gives him some raspberry seeds. But such raspberry seeds! When he bakes the berries into tarts and the townsfolk take a nibble, they can't help themselves - they just start shouting "Rassssspberrrrrieeeeees!"

What a story to read aloud and together! In this exuberant tale, the great storyteller Jay O'Callahan and folk artist Will Moses will have readers - old and young - hollerin' "Rassssspberrrrrieeeeees!" too.

By Esphyr Slobodkina

"Caps! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap!" calls out the peddler as he walks carefully up and down the streets, balancing a huge pile of caps on top of his head. But when the peddler goes out into the country, he unwisely takes a nap, leaning against a tree, with the caps still balanced on his head. While he is asleep, a band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of his caps, except for his own checked cap. When he wakes up, his efforts to get his caps back again make this a classic story in the great folktale tradition.

By Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by Kurt Cyrus

A Moo-sical Tale of Hearts and Herds

This is the all-singing, all-dancing, hard-riding, and high-romancing story of a lasso-tossin' cowgirl, a tough-as-jerky cowboy, and the two herds of do-si-do-ing, polka-prancing, high-stepping heifers that bring them together.

By Jean Marzollo
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

By Jules Feiffer

"Bark, George," says George's mother, and George goes: "Meow," which definitely isn't right, because George is a dog. And so is his mother, who repeats, "Bark, George." And George goes: "Quack-quack." What's going on with George? Find out in this fast, foolish, and funny farce from Jules Feiffer.

By Doreen Cronin
Illustrated by Betsy Lewin

Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears Click, clack, moo. Click, clack, moo. Clickety, clack, moo. But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes...

By Charlotte Pomerantz
Illustrated by James Marshall

See the piggy,
See the puddle,
See the muddy little puddle.
See the piggy in the middle
Of the muddy little puddle
And so begins this rollicking story-in-verse about a determined young pig who absolutely refuses to leave her mud puddle - much to the dismay of her family! Charlotte Pomerantz's tongue-twisting nonsense verse - made even more exuberantly hilarious by James Marshall's illustrations - is sure to delight both children and adults.