Best Selling Books by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

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.

A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring a friend--and the friends are always wild animals--and always well-behaved.

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.

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

Counting verses explain how a family ended up with a dozen cats.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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