"From surfing penguins to karate-kicking kangaroos, the animals in Paul Thurlby's wildlife are up to some wild antics--some strange...all true!"--Dust jacket.

Deer has told Squirrel how wonderful snow is. But Squirrel gets bored with the wait. With his friend Hedgehog they pass the time by singing and waking Bear. Soon things are falling from the sky, but they aren't snow. But eventually they find what snow is.

A fox wonders how he should prepare for the coming winter, but what other animals advise will not work for him until another fox comes to his aid.

An alphabet book with fantastic and detailed pictures, bearing such labels as "Lazy lions lounging in the local library."

Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Indentification" page.

Baby and friends are busy in the garden making lunch that includes puddle-water soup, mud pie, and dandelion-and-dirt dessert. To whom will they feed this lunch?

An introduction to the alphabet features the name and an illustration of twenty-six different animals, along with a second word beginning with the same letter which can be used to describe each animal.

When Mr Noah builds the ark, he also makes two lists. One list is all the animals who should come into the ark, two by two. The other list is all those "troublesome creatures", such as the unicorns, which Mr Noah plans to leave behind. Meanwhile Mrs Noah is busy too. She gets out her sewing machine and makes a big coat with lots and lots of pockets, and when the coat is finished she puts it on and heads out to the Mythico Woods! The animals come aboard,...

Bear Cub spies a pair of underpants hanging from a tree branch and sets out to find their owner, but they belong to none of his forest friends.

Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.