RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1978. The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town, except for its weather, which came three times a day—at breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

This playful collection of four seemingly separate stories, all told simultaneously, will keep the...

In amusing and caricature-like illustrations, this book sketches the perks and annoyances of being...

Nico and her older sister, Angel, were adopted from Korea by a white family in the United States...

In this African version of Little Red Riding Hood, Granny sends Pretty Salma to the market with a...

Stuart Little is a mouse, but he lives with a family of humans in New York City. They also have two...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1996. Lilly loves school and her teacher, Mr. Singer. But when she brings her favorite possession, her purple purse with all her treasures inside, to school, Mr. Singer takes it away. Lilly learns some hard lessons about revenge and remorse.

Pink, an African-American Yankee soldier, rescues Say, a white Yankee soldier, after he was wounded...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1975. Strega Nona, or Grandmother Witch, is a witch doctor who helps the people in her village with her remedies. Her new apprentice, Big Anthony, doesn’t know how to stop the production of her magic pasta.

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1989. This version of the three little pigs is told by Alexander T. Wolf. He goes over to the pigs' houses to borrow sugar for his grandmother’s birthday cake.

RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. What if you could run away and live inside a museum? In From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Claudia and her brother Jamie secretly move into the Metropolitan Museum of Art—but their adventure turns into a mystery when they discover a statue no one can explain. To solve it, they must track down the mysterious Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler… and everything might change.

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1997. An adventure series featuring George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth-graders from Piqua, Ohio. They start a comic book series called Treehouse Comix Inc. Accidentally, their superhero, Captain Underpants, becomes real. Many adventures follow and many involve the cranky principal of their school, Mr. Krupp.

A series of animals parade across the pages of this colorful book as children read about what...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1982. A fun book for young children that introduces them to animals and the sounds they make. Cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, and cats are included in the story.

RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. Vashti stares at a blank piece of paper and thinks she can't make anything beautiful. What if one tiny dot could change everything? You won't believe where it takes her!

In book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, four children are evacuated to an English country house during wartime. They discover Narnia through a wardrobe in one of the bedrooms.

The timeless story of the friendship between Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider. When Wilbur...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1970. Frog and Toad are best friends who are always there for each other, whether one of them needs cheering up, loses something important, or just needs a good story. Together they show that true friendship means showing up, no matter what. Can you think of a friend who makes every day better, just like Frog and Toad do for each other?

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1985. If a hungry little mouse shows up on your doorstep, you might want to give him a cookie. And if you give him a cookie, he'll ask for a glass of milk.

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1986. This story illustrates the unconditional love between a mother and child. As the boy grows into a man, the cycle of life continues, and just as the mother nurtured and cared for him as he was growing up, he then nurtures and cares for her as she grows old.

Noticing Annie, a white girl, sitting on a fence watching Clover and her black friends play, Clover...

RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. When a young boy receives a new box of paints, other people question his unique painting style. Read to find out how he learned to follow his heart and introduced a new kind of painting to the world of art!

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. In a small Guatemalan village, a school is running out of room and out of money, leaving students crammed two grades to a classroom. But when the villagers come up with a wild idea using something most people would throw away, everything changes.

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. In the morning, Fred greets his dog and his cat, then travels to the top of his brownstone in Brooklyn to greet the honeybee hives he keeps on the roof.