Best Selling Books by Beatrice Schenk DE REGNIERS

The biblical tale of the young sheperd who uses a slingshot to do battle with a giant and eventually becomes a king.

A retelling of the Slavic fairy tale in which the Month Brothers'' magic helps Little Sister fulfill seemingly impossible tasks which prove the undoing of her greedy stepmother and stepsister.

What can you do with a shoe? You can put it on your ear or wear it on your head or butter it like bread or use apple jam instead! What can you do with a hat? You can fill it up with pickles or with popcorn or with glue. An octopus could rest in it, a bird could build a nest in it, a turtle be a guest in it. Or would a horse look best in it? These are samples of the questions and wonderfully silly, laugh-provoking answers in a game played by a little girl and boy dressed up i their parents clothes. On every page of this whimsically playful book, there are enchanting watercolor illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Inspired by the infectiously funny pictures and text, children will soon begin to make rhymes of their own about everyday things. Richly imaginative and wholly in tune with children''s high spirits and sense of play, What can you do with a show?, now issued in a new edition with full-color paintings, will be welcomed by young and old. It is a treasure.

Two groups of animals tell each other about the food and other things that they put in their pockets.

Twelve cats inhabit one household in this charming tale. "A cat''s paradise and certainly enjoyable for young counters and catlovers".--The Horn Book.

In these two plays about magic, a wicked witch imprisons a princess and a wizard transforms a boy into a cat.

Expresses some of the simple joys, activities and wonders children find in the sun and its effects.

In these verses for children, the author and illustrator "have created a little world complete in itself."

Amy''s wait outside the grocery store for her mother seems interminable, and she spends the time imagining the entire rest of her life.

A collection of jokes and humorous stories told by and about Abraham Lincoln. Grades 4-7.

A collection of poems describing some of the joys and sorrows of friendship.

Describes, in text and illustrations, such special places as a cardboard box, a blanket cave, and other "houses" where one can retire for peace and privacy.

Never satisfied with what he has, a man trades away a knife, a shoe, and even his wife, all the while wondering if he has made a good trade.

Recounts Willy O''Dwyer''s jumping journey that took him to the sun and back again.

Retells in verse the adventures of a little girl who meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

Magnificent colored photograph of clowns, high-wire artists, acrobats and wild animals.

The friendship of Joe the Bear and Sam the Mouse blossoms when they find something they both like to do.

Describes in rhyme the activities of cats and the joys of knowing them.

A well-mannered little boy has permission to bring his animal friends to visit the king and queen.

Nine riddles contain clues in verse to well-known animals.

A little girl, no bigger than a penny, is adopted by an old man and an old woman who try to find a special husband for her, but she rebels and finds her own.

The book outlines a little girl''s wanting to be like her mother, but there are some things mothers do that little girls can''t do and some things little girls can do that their mothers can''t.

In this traditional folk rhyme the children catch all the animals, however, the illustrator has a surprise for the reader.

At the start a little girl is crying all alone, but at the end the little girl, two boys, and all the animals are laughing together.

A little girl goes for a walk, greeting many animals on her way and meeting someone who becomes a new friend.

Billy was a very little boy but he fooled the giant.

A collection of limericks, poems, and verses.