Paul O. Zelinsky

In a series of poems, Awful Ogre rises, grooms himself, dances, pens a letter, and goes through other activities as the day passes.

Having moved to Montana from Tennessee in the 1830s, fearless Angelica Longrider--also known as Swamp Angel--changes the state's landscape, tames a wild horse, and captures some desperadoes.

One-by-one, the members of the Shivers family disappear from the inside of their chilly refrigerator home.

Rapunzel is a girl with very long, golden hair; A pair of elves secretly create an amazing pair of shoes for a poor but kindly shoemaker; When a young girl befriends a mysterious elderly woman, magical things begin to happen; Follow the adventures of billy goats named Gruff as they bravely hunt for fresh green grass to eat; Lon Po Po brings lessons about strangers, trust and courage; A king falls in love with a princess after she hides her identity...

A collection of forty-six animal poems.

Teachers teach, flyers fly, painters paint, climbers climb--and teachers fly, climbers paint ....

A selection of Sandburg's fanciful, humorous short stories peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Susan Slackentwist, and Dippy the Wisp.

Fascinated by the life-like miniature of a steamer on his grandmother's shelf, a young boy becomes convinced that there are little people inside and, ignoring the admonition not to touch, decides to find out for himself.

Leigh Botts, un muchacho de 10 años de edad, escribe cartas a su escritor favorito. En sus cartas, Leigh se da cuenta de que en papel se puede expresar de una forma que jamás se hubiera atrevido personalmente sobre el divorcio de sus padres y acerca de encontrarse a sí mismo. In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding...