Washoe County Library System

"Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines--a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of...

"Did you know that Jellies (not Jelly Fish--because they aren't actually fish) have no bones and no brains? Or that the largest animal on Earth is the blue whale? Join author-illustrator Bob Barner as he makes waves with this lush picture book about the sea featuring his signature rhyming text and colorful illustrations. Filled with incredible fishy facts about vertebrates, invertebrates, endoskeletons, and exoskeletons, and an underwater informational...

Still yearning to be seen as heroes, Wolf, Shark, Snake, and Piranha set out to rescue ten thousand chickens from a high-tech cage farm--but one unexpected problem is Mr. Snake himself, also known as "The Chicken Swallower."

The pigeon really, really wants a puppy, but when a puppy arrives the pigeon changes its mind.

Names animals which don't hoot, buzz, squeak, roar, or quack and also names creatures which do make these sounds.

An African wild dog, a warthog, a lion, and an elephant argue about the animal each sees through the hole in the wall--which turns out to be a mirror.

In the vast African savanna, Natumi is rescued from danger, regains her strength, learns to care for and protect other orphaned elephants, and courageously leads her new family back into the wild.

A young boy and a series of animals learn that as babies, they looked like little versions of their mothers and fathers, but a young bullfrog is horrified when he is shown a photograph of himself as a tadpole.