Why do airplanes look the way they do? Why can’t birds fly when they’re first born? And why do some paper planes fly farther than others? Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more. Discover everything there is to know about flight from Ada Twist, Scientist—from information about creatures that fly, to the history of aircrafts, to modern technology that allows us to soar through the...

A lost and lonely cat finally finds its way back home.

Relates five adventures of Owl.

A mouse convinces a weasel he needs the ingredients from several stories to make a tasty mouse soup.

Frances is jealous of her sister's birthday, but birthday spirit moves her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

A dog who thinks he is too long finds his length does have one advantage--his whole family can hug him at once.

Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day. Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night."

"One day a tiny cricket is born and meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but there is not a sound. And so the quiet cricket makes his way in the world, meeting one insect after another who greets the cricket with the cheery hello of its species - the hum of the bee, the whirr of the dragonfly, the screech of the cicada. Finally it matures and meets a female cricket who evokes from the quiet cricket "the most...

Describes the characteristics and habits of the massive flesh-eating dinosaur, as well as theories about why it became extinct.