Anne Miranda s inventive twist on a classic rhyme tells what happens after a shopper goes to market, to market, to buy a fat pig. Back home the pig promptly escapes, and soon the pig s in the kitchen, the lamb s on the bed, the cow s on the couch--and the rest of the animals are wreaking havoc throughout the house.
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Hare solves his family's problems by tricking rich and lazy Bear in this funny, energetic version of an old slave story. With roots in American slave tales, Tops & Bottoms celebrates the trickster tradition of using one's wits to overcome hardship. "As usual, Stevens' animal characters, bold and colorful, are delightful. . . . It's all wonderful fun, and the book opens, fittingly, from top to bottom instead of from side to side, making it perfect for story-time sharing."--Booklist

This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 2-3, Stories)

Recounts the race between the boastful hare and persevering tortoise.

Anansi the Spider tricks all the animals, until he's taught a lesson.

Anansi the Spider tricks all the animals, until he's taught a lesson.

A spider tricks other animals into thinking a melon can talk.

It's a fine bright day, and all the animals are working--all except Anansi, that is He's sleeping, as usual. Warthog, Lion, and Zebra laugh so hard at his messy house that they wake him up. Anansi stomps off in a huff--right into an amazing secret Hyena has a magic stick that follows his orders. If Anansi steals the stick, he'll never have to work again, and his home will be the neatest one in town. Is the magic stick his secret for success? Or the beginning of disasters he can't even imagine?

Now in a bilingual edition, this retelling of a classic story finds Jack Rabbit convincing everyone in the desert, from Armadillo to Vulture, to add something to his Tumbleweed Stew. Full color.

Every night the rhyme gets read. Every night Dish and Spoon run away. And every night they return--until tonight
Where can Dish and Spoon be? The rhyme can't go on without them, so Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to search for their missing friends. But where to start? Should they go north? East? Northeast? They'll just have to read Fork's map, ask directions, and try not to get lost in Little Boy Blue's haystack or under Miss Muffet's tuffet or in Big Bad Wolf's kitchen--"FEE, FI, FO . . ." Oh no. Could that be the giant?

Deep, deep down in their underground town, the prairie dogs live in harmony - until a mysterious, fluorescent, very fuzzy thing otherwise known as a tennis ball rolls down their hole.