Using Harry the dachshund as a gentle guide, Calmenson addresses the right way for a child to approach a dog with care and precision. Unique and straightforward, this is the essential guide to bringing children and dogs together--for kids and parents alike. Full color.

Everybody is in such a hurry these days--mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers. About the only people who aren't in a hurry are grandfathers. With them there is always time to stop...and look...just as long as you like.

This gentle story about the warm, happy relationship between the oldest and youngest ones in the family was originally published in 1959 with illustrations by Paul Galdone. Now freshly reillustrated by the internationally acclaimed Jan Ormerod, it is sure to find its way into the hearts of a brand-new generation of readers.

So gut möchte es wohl jedes Mädchen haben!§Marietta hat einen Freund, der immer für sie da ist. Mit einer Geduld, wie sie wohl nur ein Bär haben kann, wartet er, bis sie alles hat, was sie für ihren Ausflug braucht, bereitet ihr ein Picknick und erzählt ihr Geschichten. Und wenn Marietta einmal schlechte Laune hat, weiß Bär genau, wie er sie wieder zum Lachen bringt.

Hallie isn't afraid of anything--that is, anything but storms, which she braves along with her grandmother, huddled beneath a special quilt. When her family joins a wagon train headed west, leaving her grandmother--and everything Hallie has ever known--behind, Hallie knows she will have to be braver than she's ever been before. But can she summon the courage to help a young buffalo stuck on a rocky ridge during a wild storm? The Newbery medalist Katherine Applegate has paired lyrical text with gorgeous watercolors throughout.