Alvin Tresselt

When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grownups do when a snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on thier tongues. All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book -- the frost ferns on the window sill, the snow man in the yard and the mystery and magic...

"A retelling of a traditional tale of how a boy's lost mitten becomes a refuge from the cold for an increasing number of animals." --

Traces the life cycle of an oak tree and describes the animals that depend on it for shelter and food.

Relates the morning activities and sounds of a variety of farm animals.

Pieter Vanderloon was a very fortunate man. He had a fine fat wife, six roly-poly children, and a mill overflowing with corn. One morning there were four less kernels of corn in the mill, for two tiny mice had made a breakfast of them. Off went Pieter at once to buy a cat to guard his corn. But, instead, he came back with an elephant! "From the tip of his trunk to the end of his tail, there is far more to an elephant than there is to a cat!" Pieter...

Certain that the world is ending when the well he lives in runs dry, a frog hops out and discovers trees, flowers, and other creatures he never imagined.

Traces the life cycle of an oak tree and describes the animals that depend on it for shelter and food.