John Rowe

The reader is asked to find a growing list of animals in the accompanying illustrations before going on to the next page.

Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book, " focusing on stories that feature Mowgli, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the panther.

A retelling of a Russian cumulative tale in which a number of animals crowd into a lost hat to make their home, until a tiny flea comes along.

A little hedgehog-like creature named Elvis just wants to be hugged, but he is so prickly that no one wants to go near him--that is, until he hears an ugly crocodile crying out.

Because Little Monkey never listens, he gets into big trouble.

In this version of Andersen's tale "re-cut, pinned, and stitched by John A. Rowe, " the emperor loves shopping and new clothes, but he is still tricked by two rascals.

Eva takes a walk with her mother and encounters a range of mysteries: from gravity, to life cycles, to the vastness of the universe. She learns that it's okay to say "I don't know", and she discovers that there are some things even adults don't know mysteries for everyone to wonder about together!

When his mother says "No!, " a young boy thinks of all the wonderful things he could do if he sent her to the moon, but then he realizes he wants her around, especially to read bedtime stories.

"Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised...