What is your favorite childhood fable? You may remember stories that concluded with an insightful moral based on life's common teachings such as, "slow and steady wins the race."This book of fables follows in the age-old tradition of using fascinating animal behavior to illuminate the timeless lessons to our younger generations, so they themselves can grow to be wise grandparents.In delightful style, each fable is preceded by a poem. The stage is then set in an alternate lo...

If you only had one wish to make, would you change your life, or would you change someone else's? Can a Goldfish find happiness in his dreary surroundings? Trapped in a tiny glass tank, a miserable goldfish makes it perfectly clear how disappointed he is with life. A series of wishes granted by a magic star reveal that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Will the fish ever find true happiness? Join him on his quest for a better life and his journey into selflessness in this ...

Did you know that the viperfish uses a glowing lure to attract its prey? Or that a giant squid has eyeballs the size of volleyballs? This book is full of facts about all sorts of freaky animals!

I had a dog called Rover. He left home and never came back. I had a dog called Tiger. He kept stalking me. I had a dog called Boss. He kept trying to tell me what to do. What did the one gibbon say to the other gibbon? Gibbon the way I feel about you we ought to get married. What did the one stork say to the other stork? Stop storking me. What did the one warthog say to the other warthog? Warts with the long face? Cheer up, old pal!

The Case of the Curse of Houl is the third book in the Wolflock Cases fantasy mystery series.A ship is a small place and things spread quickly. Songs, jokes, stories and gossip. Disease.As one by one the company aboard the Silver Ice Hair fall ill, it is up to Wolflock to solve the mystery before the disease takes the life of those he holds dear.Is this a regular illness? Or has the river god Houl cursed the ship? With the ship is clouded by illness, how will be dis...

As the Name Day approaches, a young kitten tries to be worthy of a noble name, by following the path of a Bengal tiger.

Some feet can smell. We don't mean they stink. Some animals actually have feet that smell things like your nose does. Some animals even taste with their feet!Some animals eat with their feet, or use them to swim. Others use their feet to hunt or to dig holes. Even if they don't smell, feet are wonderful things.Take a fun and interesting look at all kinds of feet with this book.Ages 7 to 10.LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing readin...

Take a magical ride around the globe to see the wonders of a single moment in a story illuminating our precious and fragile natural world.Our planet is always turning. It may be midnight in London, but in different time zones other living things are waking up, ready to hunt or feed or fight. As the clock strikes twelve, two sisters are spirited away on a journey to glimpse, in the span of a moment, extraordinary biodiversity: a mother polar bear and her cubs huntin...

Did you know that the European eel can migrate far distances simply from memory? Did you know that chimpanzees can learn sign language? Far Out! is packed with interesting facts about animals that can do amazing and humanlike things, such as the dolphin, silverback gorilla, Egyptian vulture, and monarch butterfly.

Master storyteller Ethan Crownberry's classic tale. In Full Color (on Color Devices). If you only had one wish to make, would you change your life, or would you change someone else's? Can a Goldfish find happiness in his dreary surroundings? Trapped in a tiny glass tank, a miserable goldfish makes it perfectly clear how disappointed he is with life. That is, until a series of wishes granted by a magic star reveal that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Will the fish ever fi...

Powerhouse team Douglas Wood and Jon J Muth present a sequel to Old Turtle, the award-winning wisdom tale of peace and love for the earth.Seekers of all ages have been inspired by the stirring message of Old Turtle, the beloved, award-winning wisdom tale of peace. Now Old Turtle returns in a timeless story about love, acceptance, and the nature of truth.Long ago, as truth descended onto earth, it split in two: one piece landing among the people and the other blazi...

"I'm quick and smart as I can be. Try and try, but you can't catch me!"Mouse Deer sings his song as he walks through the forest looking for tasty fruits and roots and shoots. Though he is small, he is not afraid. He knows that many big animals want to eat him -- but first they have to catch him!In these delightful trickster tales from Southeast Asia, find out how Mouse Deer gets the best of his enemies -- Tiger, Crocodile, and the most dangerous animal of a...