Children play on the playground, imitating animals from bunnies and squirrels to elephants and penguins.

"A lonely shrew wants a friend to play "twogether" with as a pair, but Elephant thinks it's more fun to play either by herself or in a big group"--

"A group of kids celebrate the joy and freedom of summer on their Brooklyn block"--

When Judy and Peter find a game marked "Jumanji: A Jungle Adventure Game, free game, fun for some but not for all," strange and extraordinary things begin to happen to them

A zany but well-meaning cat brings a cheerful, exotic, and exuberant form of chaos to a household of two young children one rainy day while their mother is out.

Llama Llama plays in the park, zipping by on scooters, swooshing down the slide, and zooming by on a tricycle. On board pages.

Four young crocodiles find all sorts of ways to keep busy on a rainy day.

Willow is shy. VERY shy.
Her home is in an abandoned mailbox, and she'd rather stay put. Outside kids scream and soccer balls collide, trees look like monsters, and rain is noisy in a scary kind of way. It's much nicer to stay inside, drawing. But then a young boy drops a letter in Willow's mailbox: it's a note to the moon asking for a special favor. Willow knows that if she doesn't brave the world outside, the letter will never be delivered, and...

A busy backhoe loader describes all the items it hauls off a lot and all the fun it has getting dirty while doing so.

"What are you doing, Sam?" calls Stella. Sam and his dog, Fred, are creating joyful havoc throughout the house. Be it snorkeling in the bathtub, teaching Fred to read or roll over, or cooking up a pancake feast, they are having a marvelous time. Of course, Stella joins in the fun as she observes the inventive antics of Sam and his beloved companion. In this wonderful addition to the Stella and Sam series, Marie-Louise Gay has created another charming...