Alison Inches

Corduroy sets out to make Lisa a special surprise for her birthday but it turns out to be much harder than it looks.

Celebrate Corduroy's 50th anniversary with the reissue of this delightful leveled reader! Lisa is learning how powerful letters can be. When she wants the bakery to add more sprinkles to the cookies they sell, she writes a letter to the baker, and he adds more. But when she wants to contact the movie theater owner about a problem, she thinks he's too important and won't respond. Can Corduroy help his friend with her good deed?

When the beans that Lisa has planted are dug up by a dog, Corduroy reseeds the garden that he was supposed to be watching, but he and Lisa are in for a surprise when the "beans" finally appear on the vines.

Dora and boots have to deliver a special crown and shoes to her cousin Daisy for her fifteenth birthday party--her fiesta de quinceañera.

Dora's mother is having twins, and Dora can't wait to be their big sister.

Rhyming text describes a young girl's efforts to put her unruly stuffed animals to bed.

"Max is a little monster who likes to litter and never, ever recycles. Then the electricity goes out and he sees how exciting and beautiful the Earth is -- and that it will need his help to stay that way." --Page [4] of cover.

A monster has stolen Thanksgiving dinner from Kermit's house, but Kermit and his friends are still thankful.

When Roley the steamroller sleepwalks out of the yard, Bob the builder rescues him and helps get him back home.