The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first stave (chapter) as a greedy and stingy businessman who has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity, or benevolence. After being warned by Marley's ghost to change his ways, Scrooge is visited by three additional ghosts "each in its turn" who accompany him to various scenes with the...

The letter E has fallen and injured herself-- which letters will replace her and how will words be spelled without her? It's a real E-mergency!

Five little penguins flee from a seal, flying through the water, and find themselves in an innocent game of tag.

After disobeying his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden, Peter narrowly escapes without his clothes and is too ill to eat a delicious supper of bread, milk, and blackberries.

Even the roughest, toughest readers will want to turn off their engines and snuggle up with these sweet and soothing stories. Gentle rhyming text and vibrant art make these books surefire bedtime favorites for train- and construction-crazy kids everywhere.

A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns new teeth grow and hair and skin replace themselves.

Marley, a rambunctious puppy, makes himself at home while causing lots of trouble but then proves in a very dramatic way that he is a valuable member of the household.

A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.

Max is a cute kitten who dreams of becoming a brave mouse-catcher. So he sets off in search of a mouse, and discovers that bravery perhaps is not so important after all.

All the fruits gather together and enjoy a rhyming party, but poor Orange feels left out because he does not rhyme with anything--until Apple invents a new word.