Washoe County Library System

Uses rebuses to retell the Aesop fable about a young boy whose false cries for help bring him to an unfortunate end.

While anxiously awaiting the arrival of snow, Martin MacGregor, who built the biggest snowman in the neighborhood last year, tries to build one with substitute materials.

A brother and sister spend Easter with their mother in a little cabin on the lake.

Simple text and repetition of the letters "sh" help readers learn how to use the sound.

When the human baseball game is over, two teams of mice take over the ballpark to play their own championship ball game.

The class hamster gets loose and it's up to Peter, Amy, and Archie to find him and lure him back into his cage.

In five brief episodes two hippopotamuses reinforce their friendship.

Sparks fly when Beatrix Adams, seventeen, who strives to be a medical illustrator, meets Jack, one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists, but even as Beatrix begins to uncover the secrets that have left Jack so wounded, her own family secrets threaten to tear them apart.

Lavender and the rest of the sixth-graders are on a camping trip to the Chiricahua wilderness, but the trip seems cursed from the start, and when a flash flood splits the group up Lavender finds herself lost, together with her former best friend Marisol, mean-girl Rachelle, and a boy John who has been behaving like a surly jerk since the start--they have only one pack of supplies and only the most basic wilderness knowledge, but if they are to survive...

"Polar bears and penguins live in similar climates, but they never, ever meet. What if they had a party together? The penguins of Antarctica write a letter inviting the polar bears of the Arctic to join them at the South Pole to celebrate their longest day of the year. But how will the polar bears get there? It's such a long journey―will they make it in time? What will they bring? And what will happen when they arrive? Dear Polar Bears combines...