Illustrations and rhyming text present some of the things that children hold dear.

While riding on a train at night, a young boy listens and watches as he passes by many creatures in their wilderness homes.

When Phantom, the quickest ferret of the litter, pokes her head up and springs out of the tunnel, she begins her sometimes dangerous, always adventurous life on the prairie.

The hip, hot Candystore Man dispenses a variety of treats, from ice cream and lollipops to jellybeans and jawbreakers.

Although Froggy is very excited when his Dream Team plays for the city soccer championship, he makes a mistake on the field that almost costs the team the game.

Watch a flamingo hatch from its egg until it becomes a full-grown flamingo.

Celebrates the seasons of the year through poems from the legends of such Native American tribes as the Cherokee, Cree, and Sioux.

Shawn and his dog Keeper remain the best of friends even after the show-and-tell where Keeper trips the teacher, spills glue, knocks over the fish tank, and doesn't perform a single trick.

Two brothers and their parents share a wild and wonderful backpacking trip during which they discover a magnificent waterfall and climb to the top of it.

Life in a southern mangrove swamp is not easy for a crocodile as she mates, lays her eggs, helps her hatched babies begin their precarious lives, and then escapes being shot by hunter.