With a tramp and a roll and a swat, Great Big Elephant, Great Big Hippo, and Great Big Tiger try to capture Tiny Little Fly as he teases each one in turn.

A little girl befriends a sad, tiny horse, and, with a little magic (and an ice cream cone), helps him fly.

"An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash-landings to parachute bailouts--ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend. In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey that would turn them into lifelong friends. One was an orphaned...

An illustrated collection of forty-one fairy tales by Andersen, including "The Mermaid," "The Red Shoes," and "The Swineherd."

Selfish little Nils learns kindness and wisdom when, bewitched into an elf-sized boy, he is carried off by a barnyard goose to join the migration of wild geese across Sweden to Lapland. Illustrated with photographs.

First there s just one fish Little Fish under the sea. But not for long: here come two fin-fin fish, three counting fish, and four flying fish. And can you imagine who else? Shy fish and scary fish, tiny fish and funny fish.

When a family's wheat crop is threatened by locusts, tiny flying elephants come to the rescue.

"Summary Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants-from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. " Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony. . . . Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg," writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea,...

"When Bird finds a strawberry, Frog wants it too, as well as little Shrew! They decide to organize an obstacle course to determine who will win the prized fruit. Each of them choose different tasks. But when Frog discovers he can't fly like Bird, and Squirrel can't color like Rat, who will win the race?"--Back cover.