Ellen Weiss

Pepper and Jake, sister and brother shepherds, match wits with the giant, Urk, who regularly floods their valley with his dirty washwater.

Hitty is a wooden doll whose owner, Nell, lives on a plantation in North Carolina. When a slave girl named Sarina comes to work on the plantation, Nell and Sarina become friends. But then they break the unwritten rules of the plantation and trouble ensues.

Rhyming text follows a set of sleepy twins as they get into their PJs, brush their teeth, and are tucked into bed.

Kermit has to make a hard decision after promising to help both Piggy and Fozzie with their school projects, leaving no time for his own.

A boy with an amazing sense of smell becomes the "Family Nose" when his parents and siblings all come down with colds and cannot smell disgusting and dangerous odors around the house. Includes facts and activities related to the sense of smell.

Rhyming text follows a set of twins as they fight over two new toys, break one, and learn to share the other.

"One after another the children become frightened as they hear strange noises coming from the attic and imagine there is a horrible monster in the castle." --

Illustrations and text look at how dinosaur remains have been excavated and studied, what we know about how dinosaurs lived, about related prehistoric creatures, and about why dinosaurs are extinct.

Danny and Walter are brothers who don't get along. When they discover a magical game that sends their house into outer space, they have to learn to work together to battle the evil Zorgons.