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Max enjoys a busy day at school.

Ruby and Louise create their own Babysitting Squad business, but watching their first client, Percy Wardropper, proves to be a challenge.

A little mouse named Spinka creates mischief that twin kittens Kit and Kaboodle are blamed for by their parents. Feeling left out a little mouse named Spinka creates mischief that twin kittens Kit and Kaboodle are blamed for by their parents.

Nora is determined to play the violin, but her parents, sister Kate, and brother Jack are appalled by the terrible sounds that emerge during her practice sessions. Scrape and shriek, screech and squeak--everybody holds their ears. But when a special evening comes, Nora succeeds in playing the secret song she's struggled hard to learn. --

When excitement over show-and-tell causes Fiona to miss a bathroom break, Felix reassures his embarrassed friend. Fiona has no time today not even to go to the bathroom. She is in a big hurry to show off the volcano she and Felix made for show-and-tell. Just as the volcano erupts . . . oops! If only she had stopped to use the bathroom when she needed to! Fiona believes that everyone will laugh about her accident for the next fifty years. But with...

From beloved author-illustrator Rosemary Wells comes a brand-new Max & Ruby story about Max surprising Grandma and Ruby when he finds a way to read the instruction book when no one else can! When the mail carrier brings a big package from Uncle Gyorgy in Bulgaria to the house, Max turns to his Reading Is Fun book to help understand the instructions. But the book doesn’t help one bit. And Ruby is too busy. Grandma reserves a Bulgarian dictionary...

From the treasured creator of Max and Ruby comes a soothing, quintessential lullaby of a book for the very young. The owls and the crickets are singing together.Outside the window, night falls in a vivid, expressionistic ode to Van Gogh. But inside the cozy house, in rooms lit with soft pastels, parents guide their little bunny through a universal routine: eating supper, putting toys away, taking a bath, reading a story, listening to a song. With...

"A poetic celebration of the quiet love that gives each one of us the strength to succeed. No dream too big. No goal too great. With love and support anything is possible. Rosemary Wells, the acclaimed author of Max & Ruby and Voyage to the Bunny Planet, once again brilliantly focuses on the small moments in a child’s life that matter most, celebrating the quiet love that gives every one of us the strength to succeed. A young bear finds its way...

The bond a parent and child share is special. In this sweet and heartfelt picture book, renowned author-illustrator Rosemary Wells celebrates all that parents do with and for their children from the very beginning: talking and walking, feeding and reading, playing and dreaming, and more.

When Max discovers that the lunch he's been looking forward to is missing, he and Ruby embark on a search for it.