![The Mouse and the Motorcycle](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0380709244.jpg?itok=PfOzazWr)
While on a family vacation in California, the Gridleys stay in an old hotel where a mouse named Ralph finds a toy motorcycle and meets Keith, the youngest Gridley. Thus begins a friendship and a memorable adventure of a mouse on a motorcycle. Ralph’s adventures continue in Ralph S. Mouse (1982).
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
![Pecos Bill: A Tall Tale](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/068805871X.jpg?itok=V3rdeDiI)
Pecos Bill could tame ’most anything in the Wild West — at least until he came up against a gal called Slewfoot Sue and a horse named Lightning. Steven Kellogg’s signature style is ideal for this funny glimpse of a tall tale hero in the pioneer days of the old West.
Pecos Bill: A Tall Tale
![Paul Bunyan](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688058000.jpg?itok=gGDRsG8m)
Paul Bunyan and his ox named Babe are larger than life tall tale heroes — who quite literally helped shape the American landscape. The huge lumberjack is introduced through animated illustrations and lively language as he creates the Grand Canyon and more.
Paul Bunyan
![Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0385908415.jpg?itok=kzZd8cxl)
The lives of real people inspire the tales that are told about them. Retold here with humor and colorful language, the stories and people of the mountains are larger-than-life in the actions and pictures of this tall tale book.
Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales
![John Henry](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0140566228.jpg?itok=4TX4Jquo)
John Henry’s talent was evident at an early age when he helped his daddy, but was cemented in American folklore when he took on the steam drill. His place among American tall tale heroes is chronicled in richly detailed watercolors and language.
John Henry
![Davy Crockett Saves the World](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688169929.jpg?itok=2ZE3UVQq)
Every word in this book is true; that is, of course, “unless it’s false.” Outrageous stories about this larger-than-life guy were inspired by the Crockett almanacs and are retold here with verve and laugh-out-loud humor in words and pictures.
Davy Crockett Saves the World
![American Tall Tales](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0679800891.jpg?itok=BDs8_5O8)
Meet heroes (and heroines) in these well-told tales of fictitious and actual characters from American folklore. These tales are ideal for reading aloud, and are illustrated with strong-lined wood engravings.
American Tall Tales
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When Eugene is shipwrecked on a tiny island, he finds a friend in Lenny, an exceptionally intelligent parrot who talks. Readers will understand the changing meaning of Eugene’s repeated “terrific” as the story and the understated humor grow in this engaging yarn.
Terrific
![Mercy Watson to the Rescue](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763622702.jpg?itok=FKZlHR2s)
This is the first of the series of entertaining and engaging books about Mercy Watson, a charming pig adopted by a human couple. Here Mercy inadvertently saves the day, or at least her humans, amid a humorous series of events.
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
![Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060535563.jpg?itok=zl2PHnp7)
Ivan Itch finds friendship as well as Arthur Bobowicz’s 266-pound chicken in this hilarious adventure which started in Hoboken Chicken Emergency. The slapstick humor resumes in The Artsy Smartsy Club in which art enlivens an otherwise dull Hoboken summer for Ivan, Bruno Ugg, Loretta Fischetti, and, of course, Henrietta.
Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story
![Aliens For Breakfast](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0394820932.jpg?itok=mWHjPCi2)
Richard knows he’s not in for an ordinary day when a tiny, wisecracking alien freedom fighter climbs out of his cereal bowl. The alien enlists Richard’s help to foil a deadly enemy who is cleverly disguised as the new kid in homeroom.
Aliens For Breakfast
![Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060210745.jpg?itok=KyhWJFkK)
While on a family excursion to Africa, the Lazardos find a dinosaur and bring him home to their small town. Dinosaur Bob becomes part of their family and the town’s best baseball player.
Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo
![Flying Birthday Cake? (Marvin Redpost #6)](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0679890009.jpg?itok=oiQ7bdGs)
Marvin thinks he sees a UFO while sleeping in his friend Nick’s backyard, but both boys have forgotten all about it when the next week a new kid shows up at school. His name? Joe Normal. His behavior? Far from normal.
Flying Birthday Cake? (Marvin Redpost #6)
![Madeline](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0140501983.jpg?itok=8z8v0aAP)
Miss Clavel has her hands full with her young students: twelve little girls of whom the youngest is Madeline. Madeline’s fearlessness often causes Miss Clavel great consternation as they travel around Paris in two straight lines!
Madeline
![To Space and Back](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688091121.jpg?itok=FTSY69Po)
Much has been written about the vast scientific importance of space exploration, but very little about the human side of being a member of an astronaut crew. In this book, with the help of journalist Susan Okie, Sally Ride shares the personal experience of traveling into space. America’s first woman astronaut answers questions most frequently asked about a journey through space.
To Space and Back
![Swamp Angel](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0140559086.jpg?itok=bras1a_A)
On the day of her birth, nothing about Angelica Longrider suggested that she would one day become the greatest woodswoman of Tennessee. It’s not long before Angelica is vanquishing varmints such as Thundering Tarnation, a huge bear with a taste for settlers’ winter rations, and swallowing entire lakes in a gulp.
Swamp Angel
![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 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 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
![Where The Wild Things Are](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060254920.jpg?itok=r0KASUL-)
Max’s imaginative adventure begins the night he wears his wolf suit and makes some mischief. When he is sent to his room to cool off, he travels to the land of the Wild Things, where he is crowned king. This beloved Caldecott-winning classic is also available in Spanish. Go on a reading adventure with our Where the Wild Things Are reading adventure pack, available in English and Spanish!
Where The Wild Things Are
![Winnie-the-Pooh](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0525477683.jpg?itok=sMsIzXOG)
The adventure of Christopher Robin, his friends, Pooh (“the bear of very little brain”), and the other animals in the Hundred Acre Wood remain as fresh as Milne’s language and Shepard’s line illustrations, presented here on sturdy, cream-colored pages. The narrator’s voice of the audio book is well-matched for the tone of A. A. Milne’s writing.
Winnie-the-Pooh
![Case of the Goblin Pearls (Chinatown Mystery, No. 1)](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0064405524.jpg?itok=gXGB1urj)
When Aunt Tiger Lil comes to Chinatown, she and Lily, her niece and namesake, prepare for the New Year’s celebration, solve the mystery of a stolen pearl necklace, and help a sweatshop worker. Humor is used in this lively mystery with likable characters in an authentic setting.
Case of the Goblin Pearls (Chinatown Mystery, No. 1)
![Dinosaur Train](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060292458.jpg?itok=l5zx81Xt)
Does Jesse travel back in time or is an imaginative jaunt when he boards a train with a Tyrannosaurus engineer? No matter; the imaginative journey of train- and dinosaur-obsessed Jesse is sure to delight.
Dinosaur Train
![Dogzilla](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0152239456.jpg?itok=WenB3RXe)
What will the inhabitants of Mousopolis do when invaded by Dogzilla, the larger-than-life (but harmless looking) pooch? Can they reclaim their town before it’s chewed to bits? Collages using photographs and paintings illustrate this zany parody of old horror films. Those who enjoy Dogzilla may also appreciate Kat Kong. The titles tell it all!