Ross Collins
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Poor Mouse! A bear has settled in his favourite chair and that chair just isn't big enough for two. Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to move the pesky Bear but nothing works and poor Mouse gives up. Once Mouse has gone, Bear gets up and walks home. But what's that? Is that a Mouse in Bear's house?!
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bear and Mouse have finally overcome their differences and are living together in perfect harmony...until it's time to decorate the Christmas tree! Bear wants dazzling lights, while Mouse prefers gigantic ornaments. Did Mouse just put a manatee on the top of the tree? After Bear attempts an upside-down tree, it looks as if Christmas might be ruined for the pair. But maybe, just maybe, Bear and Mouse can reach a compromise in the spirit of the season"--...
3) Medusa Jones
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In ancient Greece, Medusa Jones, a gorgon, and her friends, a minotaur and a centaur, are mocked and sneered at by the other Acropolis Academy children whose parents are kings and gods, but when they go on a school camping trip together, the "freaks" become true heroes.
4) Doodleday
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Despite his mother's warning, young Harvey draws on Doodleday, but when his drawings come to life in frightening ways, only his mother can help.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Anteater wakes up hungry and has a problem--he can't remember what an anteater eats! He decides to take a walk through the jungle, hoping one of the other animals can help him find an answer. Will the sloth, the cheetah, or the bats be able to tell him what he should eat?"--Book jacket.
6) Germs
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Pox, a young germ on his first assignment, not only refuses to infect a girl with chicken pox, he also helps defend her from other germs and, for his heroism, is made Honorary Chief of the Immune System.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The tables have turned in this hilarious follow-up to There's a Bear on My Chair. But this time it's Bear who has an unwelcome guest, and this mouse just won't leave! He's making a real commotion in Bear's house--eating all the food, listening to loud music, and even spilling bathwater all over the floor! But when there's an unexpected knock at the door, will Bear decide that visitors aren't so bad after all?"--Provided by publisher.
8) Dear Vampa
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A young vampire writes a letter to his grandfather bemoaning his new neighbors.
11) This is a dog
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Uh-oh! An excitable (but very lovable) dog has found his way into this First Animals book and he will not let any of the other animals take their turn. Dogs are far more important, after all! And when the other animals get angry, this dog comes up with a very cunning plan to outwit them.
12) Emily's fortune
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Series
Language
English
Description
While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.
13) I am a tiger
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite the evidence, Mouse insists that he is a tiger--or maybe a crocodile.
Author
Series
Mabel Jones ; 1
Language
English
Description
"Mabel Jones finds herself aboard the Feroshus Maggot--a ship crewed by the strangest bunch of pirates you'd (never) want to meet. She then has to find pieces of an X-shaped puzzle that in her hands could be her ticket home, but in the hands of Captain Split, they'd give him the power to assemble a pirate militia to take over London!"--
16) Robot rumpus!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When busy parents buy a group of robots to help their child get ready for bed, the results are not what they expected.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus embark on a dwarf-watching outing, not knowing that the dwarves are working frantically making crowns for a royal wedding and that they have enlisted some unreliable trolls to help them, thus putting the humans' expedition in peril.
