The shy guard at an art museum falls in love with the sad young woman in a painting that mysteriously appears one day.

A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her up.

With the encouragement of his friend, Herbie spends days writing poems about food for a contest and although he does not win, he does find an appreciative audience.

When a new bird moves in nearby, Herbie the duck worries that his friend Lottie the chicken doesn't care about him anymore.

An illustrated collection of humorous poems about people and animals.

Here are poems about people and animal, set in such far-flung places as Minot, Minneapolis, tuscaloosa, tucumcari, and the Grand Canyon.

A young boy really wants a snake of his own, and after his mother reads a book about snakes and takes him to a museum and a pet store to see some, he finds his own pet "snakes" around the house.

A mother making a quilt for her child stitches the varied topography of their beautiful island into her patchwork pattern

The animals that Ramon tends on his family's farm in Mexico include sheep that weep when they're shorn and a goat that climbs to the top of a windmill. Includes some Spanish words with pronunciation.