Best Selling Books by Barbara M. Joosse

A little girl and her grandmother have a rollicking good time during a sleepover.

Old Robert the sailor lives a solitary existence until some performing cats come into his life.

With more than a million copies sold worldwide, this universal story of a child testing the limits of her independence demonstrates that the special love between parent and child is a bond that transcends all boundaries of time and place. This tender story is now available in a 19th Anniversary Commemorative Edition with a cloth cover and limited edition, frameable print.

Nine diggity dogs of all sizes, shapes, and personalities come together with their humans to don costumes and participate in a parade. Full color.

A Crack! Snap! ROAWR!awakens Liam in the middle of the night. Oh, dear. Papa is away and Mama is snore asleep. Mama is delicious to forest things. And Liam is just a boy-too small to fight them off! What can Liam do?! He''ll dig a hole, bring sticks and string, and creep on furry feet to trap-Bear! Would that keep Mama safe? No. Liam may be just a boy, but suddenly he has an even bigger idea. Will it work? Barbara Joosse and celebrated Dutch artist Jan Jutte have the deliciously unexpected and ebullient answer.

Hooray! Someone''s coming to play with you. Can you guess who? In this wonderful read-aloud for very young children, Gramma comes to visit and brings a surprise . . . or two. . . or three. And a lot of the fun is guessing which surprise is next! Part thoughtful play, part playful imagination, this tongue-tickling tale of funny animals and loving family will entertain and involve children with each turn of the page!

Harriet gives examples of polite words and expressions to use in various social situations to make them more pleasant.

An annual family reunion involving berry-picking and jam-making reminds Ben that he is part of a big, noisy family of grandparents, cousins, uncles, and aunts.

A little boy named Claus worries that he is different from other kids: he likes to wear red all the time and his favorite hangout is the workshop with his grandmother. His grandmother tells him his differences make him special and a Christmas snowstorm helps Claus appreciate his talents.

Elisabeth is old enough to go to the fruit cellar alone, but she is afraid of the spiders lurking there.

When the neighborhood bully starts following Willy, Lucy, and Kyle around and acting goofy, they suspect that he''s been abducted by aliens until Scarface the parrot presents another possibility.

Whenever she''s been naughty, Elisabeth must spend time in the thinking place.

Ziva, a "wind-wild" young sled dog, decides whether to stay with the man who has trained her or to run free with the wolves and wind.

When nine-year-old Anna rescues a stray kitten, it leads her into friendship with Mrs. Sarafiny, an eccentric old woman with many cats and a paranoid conviction that the Martians are after her.