New Releases by Thacher Hurd

While visiting the zoo with his school class, a boy finds a magic white horse.

The valley has its beginnings in rain falling on the mountain; after many years it is a green valley with a pond, but a poor farmer changes it into a dust bowl before a good farmer comes to make it green again.

A cat hides his witch's hat, wand and broomstick, because she cast so many spells, but when Halloween comes he can't find them again.

Miss Mugs comes to stay with Suzie, and washes everything in sight, then finds nothing clean enough for her taste when they go the zoo.

Sir Francis Drake's voyage around the world in the "Golden Hind". Grades 4-6.

Mr. and Mrs. Charlie buy all the proper equipment and go on a camping trip, sleeping and cooking outdoors and fishing in a river.

A policeman's many duties include directing traffic and saving lives.

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."

A fictionalized account for young adult readers of Captain Josiah Knowles' ill-fated shipwreck on a reef in the South Seas and his and some of his crew's journey to Pitcairn Island in search of help.