Akron Public Library

Ferdinand the bull likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls. Includes read-along disc in English or Spanish.

The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format.

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.

A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth.

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Froggy experiences his first Christmas, celebrating it with his friends and family.

Numbers from ten to one are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.

Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.

To escape the dangers of urban life, Jenny and her friends sail away to an island, only to be faced with a new problem --its single inhabitant--the Skog.