Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.
2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist
On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.
Although Alexander and his money are quickly parted, he comes to realize all the things that can be done with a dollar.
Angry Alexander refuses to move away if it means having to leave his favorite friends and special places.
Contains all three books about Alexander in one volume: Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day -- Alexander, who used to be rich last Sunday -- Alexander, who's not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) going to move.
Mary McScary loves to scare people, but nothing she thinks up seems to bother her cousin, Harry McScary--but Mary will not give up trying.
A newly hatched, happily singing chick is eaten by a fox, who then starts singing before being eaten by a wolf, and so begins a chain of eating and singing for a series of animals.
When Little Red Chicken comes home excited about what she learned in school, she explains to Papa that every story has "an elephant of surprise."
Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.
In a moment of fright Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.
Zookeeper Amos McGee always makes time to visit his friends who live at the zoo until the day he stays home because he is sick.