![The Night Before Christmas](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316855790.jpg?itok=iiL-elu1)
In 1822 Clement Clarke Moore wrote The Night before Christmas for his own children. Now, of course, his poem is read aloud to children around the world who are anticipating Santa’s arrival.
The Night Before Christmas
![The Quiltmaker's Gift](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439309107.jpg?itok=Ugp1Xwy_)
A beautifully illustrated, sentimental tale about a king who only takes and a master quiltmaker who only gives. The story tells of the true benefits that come from both giving and receiving.
The Quiltmaker’s Gift
![The Runaway Bunny](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0064430189.jpg?itok=3R0gMDrj)
“If you run away,” said his mother, “I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.”A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek, yet the lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time.
The Runaway Bunny
![The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316387010.jpg?itok=bhSStbVV)
Here is a collection of eighteen stories about heroines: girls and women with as much courage as their better-known male counterparts.
The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women
![The Sky Is Full of Stars](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0064450023.jpg?itok=CtjZwwv2)
Young stargazers learn about different star colors and brightness, how to locate major constellations, and how to make mini-planetariums by using coffee cans and flashlights.
The Sky Is Full of Stars
![The Snowman](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0394884663.jpg?itok=Mo1E0QWZ)
In this charming tale, a little boy makes friends with a snowman. He wakes up on a snowy day, tells his mother he’s going outside, then begins a flurry of snowman-building. That night, he can’t sleep, so he opens the front door and lo! the snowman has come to life.
The Snowman
![The Squirrel’s Thanksgiving](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0590108379.jpg?itok=0I69VMXI)
Papa Squirrel says Buddy and Brenda should be grateful for friends and family at Thanksgiving. But these squirrel siblings just can’t get along.
The Squirrel’s Thanksgiving
![The Story of Babar](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0394805755.jpg?itok=OC0qmDLp)
The Story of Babar
![The Sun (Starting with Space)](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688092365.jpg?itok=z7qrJQtw)
The Sun (Starting with Space)
![The Tomten](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0698115910.jpg?itok=OguiDnm_)
From Swedish folklore comes the story of the tomten, a little gnome who watches over us while we sleep. Read this heartwarming version, from the author of Pippi Longstocking, and celebrate a time-honored tradition for the Winter Solstice.
The Tomten
![The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0395942187.jpg?itok=7Q95PgSl)
Exploring its history, geography, climate, and culture, this unique book takes readers on the ultimate adventure of climbing Mount Everest.
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
![The Trees of the Dancing Goats](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689838573.jpg?itok=0itZvUpq)
Polacco has a warm, colorful illustrative style she applies to what at first seems the simple story of a Jewish girl, Trisha, and her Christian neighbors, whose bout with scarlet fever at Christmas threatens to ruin Trisha’s Hanukkah. Trisha and her family respond with a loving gesture that is rewarded in kind.
The Trees of the Dancing Goats
![The Widow's Broom](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0395640512.jpg?itok=7q_oKkGl)
The story gets under way when the lonely widow Minna Shaw finds a wounded, sky-fallen witch in her vegetable garden. The witch disappears before dawn, but leaves her old, presumably defunct broom behind. Minna begins to use it around the house and finds that “it was no better or worse than brooms she’d used before.” However, one morning, Minna sees the broom sweeping by itself! Opportunistically, she trains it to chop wood and fetch water.
The Widow’s Broom
![The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Commemorative Pop-Up Book](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689817517.jpg?itok=j-Q32EZS)
Meet a very special wizard and other magical creatures on a journey to the Land of Oz with Dorothy and her companions. Their adventures literally come off the pages in this entirely fresh and refreshing version of Baum’s classic novel (also made into a now-classic film).
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Commemorative Pop-Up Book
![Tikki Tikki Tembo](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0805011668.jpg?itok=FhUVNali)
Tikki Tikki Tembo
![Time for Bed](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0152010149.jpg?itok=LDwLyxep)
It’s bedtime for an ewe and her lamb, a cow and her calf and for a mother and her child. Watercolor illustrations show mothers and their babies settling in for the night.
Time for Bed
![Timothy Goes to School](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0140567429.jpg?itok=7_4FycnQ)
Timothy Goes to School
![Toot & Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316366234.jpg?itok=-7p8WBrU)
Toot goes to a family reunion in Scotland, promising Puddle that he’ll be back in Woodcock Pocket in time for Christmas. But a huge snowstorm strands him far away from home on Christmas Eve! As Puddle waits anxiously for his friend, another holiday traveler helps Toot find his way to Woodcock Pocket, just in time.
Toot & Puddle: I’ll Be Home for Christmas
![Tuesday](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0395870828.jpg?itok=l4AblEXc)
Slowly and quietly on this particular Tuesday, a few fat frogs begin hovering over a swamp, riding lily pads like magic carpets. Gradually, the flying fleet grows in momentum and number, sailing over the countryside and into an unsuspecting town.
Tuesday
![Twenty is Too Many](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0525420266.jpg?itok=M4plNLsd)
Twenty is Too Many
![A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0152938230.jpg?itok=aPuqPH2L)
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
![What Daddies Do Best](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689844662.jpg?itok=ViKbBbsj)
What Daddies Do Best
![What's Wrong with Timmy?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316233374.jpg?itok=Rayy_Pcn)
What’s Wrong with Timmy?
![Where Do Balloons Go?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/006027980X.jpg?itok=d4AZIQMs)