The story takes place in 1939, and 9-year-old Cassie Lightfoot wants to be free to leave her Harlem...

Julian loves to tell stories, but they’re not always true. His most captive audience is his younger...

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.

A West African story about how the mosquito became a pest. It started when he told a lie to an iguana who then offends a friendly python.

After losing everything in a fire, Rosa, her mother, and her grandmother are helped by their...

An informative look at all kinds of eggs: small hummingbird eggs, huge ostrich eggs, frog eggs, and...

A picture book that captures the love that Ben has for the jazz he hears at the Zig Zag Club in the...

Chato, the cool cat from East Los Angeles decides to invite his neighbors ratoncitos, or little mice...

Papa is frustrated with little red chicken because she always interrupts her bedtime story. No matter what story Papa reads, little red chicken jumps in to help the characters from making a big mistake.

Ivy and Bean are as different as night and day and are sure they could never be friends. But they find out that they share a love of adventure after Bean plays a trick on her sister, Nancy, and Ivy comes to the rescue. The first in a series of books about the experiences the girls share.

The story of the smart cat who wears fancy boots and is able to figure out a way to trick a king and...

May and her family live in San Francisco and she eats Japanese food at home and American food with...

A new version of a traditional Cuban folktale featuring Gallito, a bossy rooster who runs into...

An interactive guessing game exploring what animals can do with their eyes, ears, nose, and even...

When Yoko brings her favorite lunch, sushi, to school all the other students make fun of her. Yoko’s...

Did you ever wonder what it’s like to be a worm? This diary, written from the perspective of a young...

A simple but effective book that lays the groundwork for student understanding of how sunlight is...

Growing up on her grandparents’ farm in Michigan, younger sister Patricia is very competitive with...

When Sarah Wheaton answers widower Jacob Whiting’s ad for a mail-order bride, she leaves her home in...

Swimmy, the only black fish in a school of red ones, is left alone after the others are eaten by a...

The second volume of stories featuring Winnie-the-Pooh, the book introduces the character Tigger and...

The mouse loves his bright, red strawberry, but he has competition from a big hungry bear. Young children enjoy learning what the mouse has to do to protect his freshly picked strawberry.

This first book in the Magic School bus series introduces Miss Frizzle and many of the children that...

A bunny decides to run away and imagines that he turns into a fish, a rock, a crocus, a sailboat...