In this story based on "The Little Red Hen, " a little black crow asks his animal friends to help with the planting of some corn seed.

While singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in the bathtub, a boy becomes the skipper of several imaginary vessels.

Allie finds a frog for show-and-tell, but he disappears before she can take him to school.

Traces the life of the Sauk Indian leader who struggled in vain to prevent the Americans from claiming the rich farmland near the Mississippi River in Illinois.

After Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, over 100,000 Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes. The government was afraid that because they looked like “the enemy,” they might be spies. One American, librarian Clara Breed, was heartbroken and outraged. As the San Diego Public Library's Children's Librarian, Miss Breed was close to many of the children who were evacuated. She went to the train station the day they left, handing out...

"A very stubborn Prince learns how to expand his diet and try new foods"--

A biography of the Seminole chief who led the resistance of his people against compulsory immigration from their Florida homeland to territory beyond the Mississippi.

Even with everyone in the kingdom lending a hand, the Prince will still not go to bed! The cook brings biscuits, the maid brings hot milk and the physician brings medicine, but the young Prince will not sleep. So the King and the Queen try an entire troupe of dancers, a mustached musician, a feather down quilt and even a cake! Still, the Prince will not close his eyes. Will the strange woman at the palace gate hold the key to the Prince's slumber?...

After climbing the water spout, Eency Weency spider meets little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty, and Little Jakie Horner.

Simple rhyming text and illustrations present different kinds of cats and their behavior.