Washoe County Library System

When Clara does not want to get dressed, her mother encourages her to make the meanest, ugliest, scariest faces in the mirror while she assists the girl in putting on her clothes.

When Mike and Millie get bored and decide to travel from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Timbuktoo, they must continuously change modes of transportation as their bicycle breaks down, a canoe tips over, and the whale gets tired out.

On April 1, Will tells his friends how he once saw a bike-riding elephant who sang through his trunk while juggling six bags of junk.

"Song-like rhyming text invites readers to guess what different components add up to. For example, a secret's part whisper, part keeping mum, and a certain kind of fruit is part peach and part plum (a nectarine)"--

"Ten Little Fish combines numbers with simple adjectives ('fish above, fish below; seven fish, fast and slow') and simple verbs ('swim and dive fish, here are five fish')"--