Best Selling Books by Janice May Udry

Trees are beautiful. They fill up the sky. If you have a tree, you can climb up its trunk, roll in its leaves, or hang a swing from one of its limbs. Cows and babies can nap in the shade of a tree. Birds can make nests in the branches. A tree is good to have around. A tree is nice.

An argument between two best friends is humorously and satisfyingly resolved.

A rerelease of the Caldecott Medal-winning story features simple, evocative text that describes a cool, moonlit night and a group of children who meet outside to dance in the grass and play tag while the wind blows gently around them.

Unhappy and ignored at school Robbie fades away but becomes visible when he cries or finds something he can do well.

In spite of the mischievous nature of the little cat they find on the doorstep, everyone in the family but the father wants to keep him.

Whether she is greeting two creatures from outer space at the front door or eating stuffed boa constrictor for breakfast, Angie's life is never dull.

When her grandmother is hurt in a fall, Mary Jo must get help to the remote farm where they live.

A little girl recounts to her cornhusk doll the pleasures of a summer on Grandmother's farm.

Glenda the witch decides she wants to be a school girl but fails to recognize her complete lack of success in the venture.

An Algonkian Indian girl lives in the shadow of her four brothers' achievements until her cultivation of a sunflower garden and an attack on a rattlesnake bring praise from the entire village.

When she gets her long-wished for puppy, a little girl takes the responsibility of training him; but no matter what she does, that puppy won't sleep at night.

Peter tells different animals that they should not push, grab or stay up all night, but they reply that they can because they are animals. Later, Peter shows them that he can draw, chew gum, and fly a kite because he is a boy.

Mary Jo has a hard time figuring out a unique thing to share with her classmates.

When Susan disappears for the day, different animals appear in her place and help Susan's mother and father with the household chores.