New Releases by N. M. Bodecker

After getting caught in Miss Jaster''s spring planting, Hedgie the hedgehog discovers he has become a four-legged, walking flower garden. Originally published in 1972, "Miss Jaster''s Garden" is a "New York Times" Best Illustrated Children''s Book. Full color.

Traveling to the far side of the mountain for their big show, the members of a string quartet end up lost in this charming picture book by N. M. Bodecker. The Daffodil String Quartet has spent months preparing for their upcoming concert. Shining the instruments and practicing extra hard, they are certain this will be one of their best shows yet. But as they travel along the road in their small Italian car on the way to their concert on the far side of the mountain, one disastrous wrong turn leaves them lost in the mountains with no sense of direction. Will the Daffodil String Quartet make it to their concert, or will all of their hard work have been for nothing?

When disaster strikes in Beetle''s new community, he masterminds a plan to turn bad fortune into progress.

A woman frantically rushes to prepare for the fast-approaching winter while her husban sits idly by.

A woman frantically rushes to prepare for the fast-approaching winter while her husband sits idly by.

A collection of poems featuring such small creatures as the pollywog, snail, moth, and earthworm.

For use in schools and libraries only. While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins-- Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack-- discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time.

A married couple was envied for growing large veggies every year. This time they grew so large they didn''t know what to do with them.

A collection of light and humorous poems.

A collection of light verse by the well-known Danish-American author and illustrator.

"There once were four quimbles in a box: Quilliam, Quilice, Quint and the unstoppable Quenelope, each wearing a tall, pointed hat, and each no bigger than your little finger." Their box fell out of a car where the road winds through the forest, "...and that''s how the quimbles came to be in the woods." Thus begins the saga of the quimbles, the magical story of four little people''s survival in the sildnerness. Suddenly they faced with the oldest of dilemmas: how to find or make all the daily necessities most people take for granted. On their lonely trek through the woods, each discovers his or her special talents: building, weaving, serching for food, and finding unlikely things in unlikely places. They learn to cope with cold and hunger, to work and plan together, to cry on occasion without being ashamed, and to keep going when they would rather give up.

Absurd limericks by the well-known Danish American author and illustrator.

A dull summer turns into an exciting adventure when an antique toy soldier transports 4 children to the era of Ivanhoe