When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. Includes Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal acceptance speech, Q&A with Kate DiCamillo, and Q&A with Timothy Basil Ering.

Using a campaign for mayor as an example, shows the steps involved in an election, from the candidate's speeches and rallies, to the voting booth where every vote counts, to the announcement of the winner.

The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.

An illustrated version of the well-known poem about a wily spider who preys on the vanity and innocence of a little fly.

Gives accounts by American and Japanese survivors of The Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...