Harriet Ziefert

Bothered by his noisy house, a man goes to a wise man for advice.

Even though there is no money, Anna's mother finds a way to make Anna a badly needed winter coat.

Three little pigs leave home to seek their fortunes and have to deal with a threatening wolf.

The queen has a plan to help the prince find a real princess to marry.

An elderly couple who long for a child build a snow child which comes to life and makes them very happy--until the coming of spring when the days become too warm for her to stay.

"With bright art done in the Japanese anime style, each book in this interactive early reading series features three different word families. When kids flip the pages, they get a new word and image within that word family. Word families help children recognize similarities between words that rhyme, and help them connect words with similar long or short vowel sounds. This familiarity helps kids read a word they don't necessarily know"--

Jason becomes a hero when he takes a bus ride.

Ten-year-old Rosa hopes that her mother, whom she has not seen for three years, will leave her job in New York and come home to Santa Catarina, Mexico, for Christmas and maybe even longer. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used.

"Are You My Brown Bear? uses descriptive adjectives to differentiate between lots of bears ('I am hairy bear. I am scary bear. I am boy bear. I am toy bear.')"--

When Max learns that his mother is going to have a baby, he talks and sings to his unborn sibling but he cannot seem to make the baby come out sooner.