Akron Public Library

"If you ran the zoo, could you outdo young Gerald McGrew? The New Zoo, McGrew Zoo, is unlike any zoo you've ever visited-- unless you've already seen an Obsk, a Chugg, a scraggle-foot Mulligatawny, a Seersucker, a Lunk, an Iota, and a Gherkin"--Page 4 of cover.

A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

A little boy's dream-fantasy in which he helps three fat bakers get milk for their cake batter.

Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.

A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.

A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

On Halloween night, Stillwater the giant panda tells Karl, Addy, and Michael a spooky and unusual story. Based on a Zen koan.

"Mr. Wuffles ignores all his cat toys but one, which turns out to be a spaceship piloted by small green aliens. When Mr. Wuffles plays rough with the little ship, the aliens must venture into the cat's territory to make emergency repairs"--