Beginning Readers

In these five short stories for beginning readers, Arnold Lobel's endearing character explores his feelings as well as the world around him. He invites the winter into his house, discovers some strange lumps in his bed, makes tear-water tea, discovers he...

Winter has arrived and Frog is freezing. He has not feathers or fur to keep him warm like his friends Duck and Hare. When he collapses in the snow one day, his friends take care of him and make him feel warm.

When a weasel catches a mouse and wants to put him in his soup, the clever mouse convinces him not to by telling the weasel that his soup would taste much better if there were stories in it instead of a mouse. The book continues with four delightful...

A little boy complains to his uncle in a series of emails about how hard it is to pet sit his dragon. Readers will love seeing the hilarious havoc the dragon causes.