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Hen has spread her wings and can get any job done by herself, but when Fox visits Hen, her friends step in to help without asking only to learn a lesson themselves.

It's bedtime in the forest, and Fawn wants to stay up. "Does Fox stay up late? Are squirrels still playing up high in the trees?" he asks his mother. But as night falls, Fawn finds that his friends are already fast asleep.

When their school band is assigned to play a piece based on a German fairy tale called "Liz and the blue bird", two best friends, an oboe and a flute player, grow apprehensive as they prepare to graduate and separate from each other just like the characters of the fairy tale.

"Vain Beaver is inordinately proud of his silky tail, to the point where he alienates his fellow woodland creatures with his boasting. When it is flattened in an accident (of his own making), he learns to value its new shape and seeks to make amends with his friends. Based on an ...

One star-spangled night, an owl and her owlet watch as the forest animals get ready to sleep. "Who settles Fawn in her bed for the night?" asks the wide-awake owlet. "What if Cub needs a kiss and a hug?" But as night turns to dawn, it's Owlet's turn to feel snug and warm as his m...

"Sylvia is as small as your pinky finger and as slow as a. . . slug! She can't run or jump or fly like her animal friends. They hatch a plot to sneak into the bountiful garden. But Sylvia has her own way of doing things--one that will make all the difference." --back cover.

A collection of humorous stories, poems, riddles and the like for beginning readers.

When Olivia and Princess Stephanie realize they look like one another, they decide to switch places for a day.

Emilie Rhodes was taught to think for herself, but doing so makes her want to write the "real news." This offends her newspaper editor father, who fires her. When Emilie begins writing anonymously for her father's competition, she finds herself falling in love with lecturer and d...

"Anticipating he will be eaten, a gingerbread boy cookie nervously awaits Santa's arrival. When rough-housing puppies threaten Christmas morning joy, the cookie comes to the rescue, earning the Night Watchman job at the North Pole"-- Provided by publisher.

A weaver dreams of being able to buy things for her children as she crafts a dress of dragon scales and candle glow.

Lazy Schnitzel is apprenticed to a famous wizard, and when a salesman selling vacuum cleaners offers to help clean house, Schnitzel accepts, but finds trouble when he realizes the salesman is a vampire.

Emilie Rhodes was taught to think for herself, but doing so makes her want to write the "real news." This offends her newspaper editor father, who fires her. When Emilie begins writing anonymously for her father's competition, she finds herself falling in love with lecturer and d...

What does it mean to be silenced, to be censored? Or perhaps, more importantly, what does it mean to break free? Bringing together 12 exciting and emerging fiction and non-fiction writers from around the world, this collection explores the censoring of the past, present, future, ...

Violet Adams is the perfect, youngest child in a family of loud, passionate women on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. As the sweet, traditional one, she's always been the steady hand in her family but after a sudden breakup and subsequent tragedy, she doesn't know who she is an...

When Olivia and Princess Stephanie realize they look like one another, they decide to switch places for a day.