When Stella gets the sudden idea to go caroling, she has a little trouble getting someone to join her. Her brother, Frank, is not good at spontaneity. The Watsons are very involved in a precarious fruitcake attempt (but happy to send their pig, Mercy, out for the occasion). Eugenia Lincoln declines, a bit rudely, to accompany on her accordion, and Horace Broom is too busy studying planetary movement. Will Stella need to sing by herself--with enthusiastic...

The letters C and K have an argument when K accuses C of stealing all the good words that start with the "k" sound.

Mr. Walker, the human-shaped figure who lives in the traffic signal box and tells pedestrians when it is safe to cross the street, decides to leave his post and experience all that he has been missing, in this sweet and satisfying tale about finding one's place in the world.

"An out-of-control sled filled with an elf, a bunny, a moose, a snowman and a baker with cakes speeds down the hill into more surprises, in this hilarious and easy-to-read picture book for beginning readers"--

Illustrates the adventures babies enjoy between naptimes.

"Gingerbread Baby and his friend, Matti, take his gingerbread band to the Christmas Festival where they are a hit--until the aroma of gingerbread reaches the children, signaling the time to run away"--

A tribute to all the special things in the world, whether big, small or somewhere in-between, from the hole in the donut to the way the Moon looks through a telescope, and a boat below the sky and above the waves.

"A girl grows up to be an accomplished artist in this book about the small things that lead to a rich and fulfilling life"--

"When Biscuit takes himself to the aquarium, he sees fish of all different colors, sea turtles, large tanks of jellyfish, and even sea lions that bark just like him"--

Features an exuberant kitten who does not want to settle down when a sleepy cat declares it is naptime.