Marc Simont

When a little dog appears at a family picnic, the girl and boy play with him all afternoon. They name him Willy. At day's end they say good-bye. But the dog has won their hearts and stays on their minds. The following Saturday the family returns to the picnic grounds to look for Willy, but they are not alone-- the dogcatcher is looking for him, too!

A goose drops away from the flock during migration and settles in at a farm, where life seems very pleasant for awhile until she finds out just why the farmer keeps geese. Best Books for Children, 6th ed. A Canada goose is happy to leave the flock and join some white geese on a farm until she realizes that in this situation she might become somebody's dinner. Bowker Authored Title code. A Canada goose is happy to leave the flock & join some white...

When Annie tells him about her missing painting, Nate the Great and his trusted companion, Sam Spade, set out to investigate, gather clues, and solve the mystery.

Nate the Great and his dog Sludge look for Annie's housekey which has mysteriously disappeared.

Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America and for Shirley...

Nate the Great takes on his first night case and tries to solve the mystery of the garbage snatcher.

"The reader is asked to help Nate the Great solve the mystery of his friend Annie's missing dog Fang." --

As Nate the Great sets to work on his first international case, he searches for a lost "something" and saves the King of Sweden from a troublesome traveler.

Nate the Great interrupts his backyard vacation to find his friend's lost grocery list--before lunch. Although Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, are on vacation, they just can't resist a new case. When his friend Claude's grocery list is lost, Nate sets out to find it before lunch. But lunch draws nearer and the list is still missing. Nate the Great is worried: his reputation is at stake. It looks as if list has vanished--unless Rosamond's strange...

When he finds a torn piece of paper with only part of a word on it, boy detective Nate sets out to find the missing pieces.