New Releases by EDITH THACHER HURD

When young Joe tries to catch a fox for a pet he gets a lion instead and must learn that neither is the right pet for him and that he cannot find the right one until he learns no pet likes to be kept in a box.

The tale of what happens when a little girl and a ghost change places.

Mr. Charlie likes eggs so much that he wants to raise chickens, but first he must build them a proper home.

A little cat who thinks she is big enough and tough enough goes out one night to see San Francisco and causes a great commotion before she returns to her own house the next morning.

Young Tom Cartwright finds adventure and intrigue as a printer''s apprentice in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1775.

The adventure of a little boy, Adam, at the St. George''s Day Fair, in colonial times. The story is set in Williamsburg, Virginia

Two little gardeners plant a garden in the spring, tend to it all summer, and pick the vegetables when they are ripe.

Everyone liked to travel on Old Silversides, the long silvery bus that shot like a streak through the sunshine, and Ben, the bus driver, thought no bus in the entire fleet compared with his.

Two miners go through a day''s hard work down in the deep dark earth, digging coal in the endless tunnels.

In a story about a truck driver taking his heavily loaded trailer truck over the mountain on a stormy night, small [children] will get an idea of the trucking business and some of the kinds of trucks used for transporting goods."

The story of a bulldozer ''who was very bad when he was mad'' but he co-operated beautifully when he was told he could lead the parade when the highway was finished.

Five little firemen: Follow five fire fighters as they put out a house fire on Small Bush Road.