Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Animals - General

Created especially for early readers, the author has taken great care in crafting the structure and style of the stories. The language, letter patterns, progressions of word structures, and sound sequences have all been shaped to build...

Jan's imagining of the story of Noah through the eyes of his granddaughter was a New York Times bestseller and is one of her most popular picture books.

Jamil McGhee's first published work, Zaniness at the Zoo, is a result of his fond childhood memories during his visits to the zoo, and his fascination with the different personalities the animals displayed.

It is his hope and desire that this book will provide children of all ages an opportunity to enjoy and envision, as he has, what it would be like to see and experience such Zaniness at the Zoo.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated in support of animal conservation. You can see more animal zaniness at www.zaninessatthezoo.com.

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You know that when Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old rabbit gentleman, started out to seek his fortune, he had to travel many weary miles -- but before he could get too weary, he ran smack-dab into more surprising adventures than a farmer's boy has holes in his overalls. First he set out at night -- and heard a weird noise from a tree. "Whoo-whooo My goodness, if it isn't Uncle Wiggily " cried the owl in surprise. "What are you doing out so late, I'd like to know?" "Waiting for a moonbeam, so I can see if there is any gold for my fortune at the end of it." That was the old rabbit's answer...

At the edge of the old briar-patch sits Peter Rabbit -- staring into the sky, his head tipped so far back it makes his neck ache

Up in the sky, a black speck sails across the snowy white face of a cloud. How could that little speck be alive, way up there? But Peter knows it is -- and he knows "who" it is: King Eagle, who, by and by, disappears over the Great Mountain. Peter rubs the back of his aching neck. Then he gives a little sigh.

"I wonder what it's like, to fly like that," he says . . . not knowing just how much he is soon to learn about his friends in the green forest and...

What ailed dear old Uncle Wiggily, who is suffering all sorts of aches and pains? "Ha Hum " said Dr. Possum, again looking very wise. "You need a change of air You must travel about. Go on a journey, get out and see strange birds, and pick the pretty flowers. You don't get exercise enough." "Exercise enough " cried Uncle Wiggily. "Why, my goodness me sakes alive and a bunch of lilacs Don't I play checkers almost every night with Grandfather Goosey Gander?" But the old rabbit gentleman took the doctor's advice -- and what did he do first but leap right into a bear's den of dangers