Easter is coming. You can guess it's near when you get a new dress, have hot cross buns for tea, and wake up to colored eggs, baby ducklings, and a bunny rabbit.

Although unaware that a fox is after her as she takes a walk around the farmyard, Rosie the hen still manages to lead him into one accident after another.

"On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too." --

"Sam Bear invites his friends to his house for a Halloween party and an unforeseen problem results when everyone brings popcorn to eat." --

"Monica's father fulfills her request for the moon by taking it down after it is small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size. Some pages fold out to display particularly large pictures." --

"An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree."--

A typically wonderful Oxenbury family sets out with gusto on a bear hunt, and the old story comes to life. Paintings are simply marvelous... Rosen's retelling is spare, with a driving rhythm, and some new sounds add sparkle to the traditional tale. A predictable story in which brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat.

While exploring the house on Christmas Eve, a little mouse discovers the tree, a candy cane, a stocking, a jingle bell, and Santa Claus.

A father takes his baby on a midnight stroll through the house, trying to get the baby to sleep. On board pages. A father takes his baby on a midnight stroll through the house, trying to get the baby to sleep.

Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day. Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night."