When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.

Describes the water, air, soil, sky, sun, and more shared by all living creatures on Earth.

Describes the formation and characteristics of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks and how to recognize and collect them.

In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.

"Introduces the ten most common types of clouds, the myths that have been inspired by their shapes, and what they can tell about coming weather changes."--Title page verso.

Explains how bacteria and viruses affect the human body and how the body fights them.

Commander Toad and his spaceship Star Warts answer a mysterious call for help from a flooded asteroid.

Banished from the town for making mischief, a little boy and his father are welcomed back when they find a way to make the dreaded giant Abiyoyo disappear.

A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her up. What's a little lamb to do about a big, oafish coyote that wants to eat her? Why, trick him, of course! This folk tale from the west of Mexico is energetically told and comfortably packed with many recognizable motifs. Mathers enlarges upon the humorous elements of the story in her boldly colored paintings. Aardema and Mathers are felicitously paired in a tale of trickery rewarded...

Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.