Best Selling Books by Jeanne Willis

Jeanne Willis is the author of Hippospotamus, Cottonball Colin, Bottoms Up!, Operation Itchy, Tadpole's Promise, Earth Tigerlets, as Explained by Professor Xargle and , The Best Bear in All the World (Winnie-the-Pooh).

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Hippospotamus

Hippospotamus
When a hippopotamus discovers a spot on her bottom, it seems every creature in the jungle knows what it is and how to cure it.

Cottonball Colin

Cottonball Colin
Award-winning duo Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross team up again for this delightful book about growing up and letting go.

Colin is the smallest of his ten brothers and sisters, and oh, how his mother worries about him! She won't let him run and play. She insists that Colin sit quietly indoors -- until Grandma has a clever idea: wrapping him up tight in cotton.

Sweet, humorous illustrations of Colin's adventures in the big, wide world will charm readers of all ages.

Bottoms Up!

Bottoms Up!
So funny that it will have children wetting their pants (IF they're wearing anyway!), Bottoms Up! is a book guaranteed to cause giggles. Our toddler hero is not happy and wants to protest - if animals don't wear pants, then why should we?! After all . . .Do piglets wear panties? Or puppies or bears? Do fox cubs wear boxers? No, nobody cares! Packed with hilarious animal characters and rollicking, rumbustious rhyme, this is another hit from award-winning author Jeanne Willis.

Operation Itchy

Operation Itchy
Itchy fleas have taken over the world, and readers are called on to help solve the mystery in this tongue-in-cheek caper starring a slightly bumbling canine spy and featuring several pullout clues.

It all starts with a headline in the Daily Dig: "Megafleas Attack! Can We Beat the Itch?" It¹s a r-r-rough time for dogkind, but luckily Secret Agent Barker — the only flea-free agent around — is hot on the trail, sniffing out clues. Who is behind this pesty crime? Is there a cure that will put the deep freeze on these nasty fleas? Readers are implored to help Agent Barker as he digs up evidence to solve the itchy mystery — with the help of foldout newspapers, maps to pore over, letters to open, a file full of pictures, and many more novelty surprises.

Tadpole's Promise

Tadpole's Promise
The award-winning, unpredictable picture book from this best-selling author/artist team is now available for the first time in paperback. Tadpole loves his rainbow friend, the caterpillar, and she tells him she loves everything about him. "Promise that you will never change," she says. But as the seasons pass and he matures, his legs grow, and then his arms-and what happens to his beautiful rainbow friend? As he sits on his lily pad, digesting a butterfly, Tadpole little realizes that now he will never know! Follow the predictable changes of a tadpole and a caterpillar to their natural conclusion in this award winning picture book.

Earth Tigerlets, as Explained by Professor Xargle

Earth Tigerlets, as Explained by Professor Xargle
The zany alien Professor Xargle is back, with a lesson for anyone who prefers a meow to a bow-wow. It's about Tigerlets, those furry, four-footed creatures that any cat-loving Earthlet will immediately identify and take to heart. Full-color illustrations.

The Best Bear in All the World (Winnie-the-Pooh)

The Best Bear in All the World (Winnie-the-Pooh)
For the 90th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh, a sequel featuring new stories and a new character from the Hundred Acre Wood.

Now a New York Times Bestseller. 


The Trustees of the Pooh Properties have commissioned four authors to write in the timeless style of A.A. Milne to create a quartet of charming new adventures for Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends. Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall: take a trip back to the Hundred Acre Wood with a collection of tales sure to delight year-round.

One story finds Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet on a quest to discover the "Sauce of the Nile" (they suspect it's apple). And in another, all the animals rally around poor Eeyore when he thinks he sees another donkey eyeing his clover. The winter story features a new penguin character, based on a stuffed toy owned by Christopher Robin Milne himself. Readers of all ages will love rediscovering old friends and making new ones in this essential new volume of Pooh stories.

The book feature beautiful color artwork in the style of Ernest H. Shepard by Mark Burgess.
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